ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: International Humanitarian Law, Genocide Convention, Terror Universal

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

3 torture in the war on terror . It represents the universal recogniion that basic rights and fundamental freedoms are inherent to all human beings. The foundaion of internaional human rights law: inspired a rich body of legally binding internaional human rights treaies. Internaional human rights law lays down obligaions which states are bound to respect. By becoming paries to internaional treaies, states assume obligaions and duies under internaional law to respect. Universal declaraion of human rights: not legally binding internaionally, no state obligaions. State obligaions (1949: posiive obligaions (to do something, negaive obligaions (not do anything) Includes customary and convenional internaional legal obligaions that regulate aciviies during internal and internaional conlict (jus in bello) Rules that govern people during imes of conlict/within conlict: example : geneva convenion, examples of rules: spare civilians, spare wounded/sick, spare those detained. Includes customary and convenional internaional legal obligaions to respect or protect speciic rights of natural persons.