LAWS 3602 Lecture Notes - International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
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Jus cogens norms: norms of international law a state cannot go against, no derogation, subjects, states, individuals obligations to meet in conflict situation, if do not meet can be found guilty of violation of international criminal law, corporations, relationship between states. Refugee convention: wwii, displaced people, how to deal with, convention created, was originally time and geographically limited, those were taken away, supposed to be time limited, eventually extended. 167 parties to the convention: takes a lot of udhr and puts it into treaty, three parts: (1) convention, optional protocol 1 and 2 (optional protocol a state can choose to agree too, two optional protocols, first optional protocol entered into force march 23, 1976 individual complaints (individuals who feels state has not met treaty obligations, individual can make complaint to treaty body, second entered into force july 11, 1991 abolition of death penalty.
