The Right to Life - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004183914 ISBN 13 : 9789004183919

Editeur : Martinus Nijhoff, 2010

Synopsis

The right to life stands at the heart of human rights protection. Individuals cannot enjoy any of the rights guaranteed to them unless their physical existence is ensured. All human rights instrument list the right to life as the first one of their safeguards. Nonetheless, in many situations human life finds itself under structural threat. Although obligated by law to protect the right to life, State authorities time and again engage in deliberate acts of killing. Fortunately, international review bodies have devised many imaginative counter-strategies. Another one of those structural threats is global warming. Obviously, armed conflict puts human life inevitably at risk; the limits of the 'license to kill' given by the laws of war must be scrupulously observed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Christian Tomuschat, Professor Emeritus, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Law. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (1977 to 1986) and the UN International Law Commission (1985 to 1996). Author of Human Rights. Between Idealism and Realism (2nd. ed. 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martinus Nijhoff
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004183914
• ISBN 13: 9789004183919
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 430
• Éditeur: Tomuschat Christian, Lagrange Evelyne, Oeter Stefan
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