International conventions on protection of humanity and environment
The forty-eight documents specifically selected for this volume from the many international treaties in existence share a number of common features. They are multilateral international treaties open to universal adoption. They are primarily intended to safeguard certain human interests - basic human...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Berlin u.a.
de Gruyter
1993
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Droits de l'homme - Histoire - Sources
> Environnement - Droit international - Traités
> Environnemnt - Droit international
> Guerre (droit international) - Sources
> Internationaal milieurecht
> Mensenrechten
> Traités - Répertoires
> Menschenrecht
> Human rights
> War (International law)
> Environmental law, International
> Treaties -- Collections
> Schutz
> Umweltschutz
> Internationales Umweltrecht
> Kriegsrecht
> Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag
> Quelle
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The forty-eight documents specifically selected for this volume from the many international treaties in existence share a number of common features. They are multilateral international treaties open to universal adoption. They are primarily intended to safeguard certain human interests - basic human rights, humanitarian needs in armed conflicts, and the human environment - rather than to regulate the relations between subjects of international law, usually nation states. The concept of human protection is the unifying theme of the material presented The treaties reproduced here in their entirely clearly demonstrate that the nation state is no longer universally perceived as an absolute end in itself, and that the power of international law not only to govern relations among states, but to affect their internal affairs, is increasing. An indication of the growing interdependence among national states and the enhanced significance of international law in areas previously the sole domain of national states, these treaties exemplify in content, though not in theory, the evolution of inter-state law into international public law. Public opinion in individual countries as well as international world opinion have embraced the issues addressed in these treaties as major challenges of our time, especially when the treaties are seen as strongly binding, globally-valid guarantees of moral values, violation of which is no longer acceptable |
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| Beschreibung: | XIX, 628 S. |
| ISBN: | 3110134462 3-11-013446-2 |