International Human Rights Law
- Historical Evolution of International Human Rights Law
- Instruments
- Why is IHR important? 1
- attributes-commonality of terms
- near universality of formal acceptance
- legitimacy of adoption
- perceived reflection of international will
- relative normative precision
- increased expectations of compliance
- susceptibility to domestic legal enforcement
- potential and uncertainty of international enforcement the additional stigma of violation
- moral clarity”
- Does International Human Rights Law make a difference in practice? 1
- Importance of IHR shouldn’t be about if it achieve its goal of eliminating human rights abuses…
- It should be about if its useful and adding to the utility belt of groups and bodies that can use it.
- If its valuable or not. If it didn’t exist would it be worse?
- It should be about if its useful and adding to the utility belt of groups and bodies that can use it.
- Development of IHR is still in its infancy. It will show its effectiveness at maturity.
- At this point it already has shown remarkable change in the world.
- Context matters: IHR shouldn’t be expected to work in all places at all times.
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Dictatorships and Powerful states don’t relent to international pressure and sanctions from abuse of IHR. {
- Importance of IHR shouldn’t be about if it achieve its goal of eliminating human rights abuses…