Title: The common interest in international law: implications for human rights
Abstract: This chapter researches whether treaties aiming to protect global common interests may inspire the further development of human rights law. The global human rights regime aims to offer effective protection to individuals and groups whose human dignity is under threat. Threats to human dignity emerge in a local context and vary across the globe. The use of the global language of human rights permits lifting a local problem to the global level through the discovery of similarities in human rights problems and the building of human rights solidarity across borders. The exercise of responsible sovereignty is needed for the protection of global common interests. This also remains valid for human rights. The international human rights regime is a decentralised regime that places the heaviest responsibility on the jurisdictionally responsible State. Responsible sovereignty requires that global human rights are implemented domestically in such a way as to result in effective and practical protection of rights holders.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-06-19
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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