POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Determinative, International Human Rights Law
22 Mar 2016
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Part ii of hr law and hr regimes. Many legal systems, such as international criminal law, are set legally already and have clear bundaries, but hr systems are ambigous, and this ambiguity creates many disadvantages that will be discussed in this lecture. Iccpr aricle 18 freedom of religion, freedom of thought. 1: no one is subject to coercion which would impair his freedom to have or adapt a religion. 2 general tyes of limitation provisions: internal qualifications (certain events could limit iccpr, general limitations clauses (usually written in constitutions of the states) Self-enforcement (at best, icj proceedings, i. e. genocide convention) Treaty monitoring bodies (human rights committee; cerd committee) Other intergovernmental bodies (e. g. un hr council [incl. Regional courts: 1) european court of hr 2) inter-american court of hr. *state cannot be told by international community to enforce hr system via iccpr.
