'HUMAN RIGHTISM" AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Italian Yearbook of International Law

Volumn 10, Issue , 2001, Pages 3-16

  Pellet, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

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References (33)

1. 1 "Foreword", in LILLICH (ed.), Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations, Charlottesville, 1973, p. VII.
2. 2 See PELLET, Second Report on Reservations to Treaties, UN Doc. A/CN.4/477 and Add. 1, espec. paras. 164-260.
3. 3 Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Forty-Ninth Session, UN Doc. A/52/10, p. 107, para. 157.
4. 4 General Comment No. 24(52) of 2 November 1994 on issues relating to reservations made upon ratification or accession to the Covenant or the Optional Protocols thereto, or in relation to declarations under Article 41 of the Covenant, Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.l/Add.6, reproduced in HRLJ, 1994, p. 464 ff.
5. 5 Kennedy v. Trinidad and Tobago, Communication No. 845/1999, 2 November 1999, Doc. CCPR/C/67/D/845/1999, reproduced in HRLJ, 2000, p. 18 f f .
6. 6 See PELLET, Second Report on Reservations to Treaties, cit. supra n. 2, para. 230.
7. 7 Oxford, 1989,pp.X-213.
8. 8 ALSTON and SIMMA, "The Sources of Human Rights Law: Custom, Jus Cogens and General Principles", Australian Yearbook of International Law, 1992, pp. 82-108; see also SIMMA, "International Human Rights and General International Law: A Comparative Analysis", Recueil des Cours de l'Academie de Droit Europeen, 1993, Vol. IV-2, pp. 153-256, espec. p. 213 ff.
9. 9 See SIMMA, ibidem, pp. 224-227. Cfr. also FLAUSS, "La protection des droits de rhomme et les sources du droit international", in Societe francaise pour le droit international, Colloque de Strasbourg. La protection des droits de I'homme et I'evolution du droit international, Paris, 1998, pp. 67-71.
10. 10 RENTLELN, International Human Rights - Universalism Versus Relativism, London/New Delhi, 1990, p. 205 (emphasis in the original).
11. 11 For further details, see PELLET, " L a mise en ceuvre des normes relatives aux droits de Thomme", in THIERRY and DECAUX (eds.), Droit international et droits de Vhomme - La pratique juridique francaise dans le domaine de la protection internationale des droits de Vhomme, Paris, 1990, pp. 101-141.
12. Security Council Resolution 418(1977) of 4 November 1977.
13. ICJ Reports, 1970, p. 32.
14. DUGARD, First Report on Diplomatic Protection, UN Doc. A/CN.4/506.
15. JESSUP, A Modern Law of Nations, New York, 1946, p. 96.
16. 16 DAVID, "Droits de l'homme et droit humanitaire", in Melanges Fernand Dehousse, Vol. I, Lesprogres du droit des gens, Paris/Bruxelles, 1979, p. 179.
17. 17 VASAK, "Les institutions internationales de protection et de promotion des droits de l'homme", in ID. (ed.), Les dimensions internationales des droits de l'homme, Paris, 1978, p. 244.
18. 18 SIMMA, cit. supra n. 8, pp. 106-210, 235-236.
19. 19 COHEN-JONATHAN, "Responsabilite pour atteinte aux droits de rhomme", in Societe fran9aise pour le droit international, Colloque du Mans. La responsabilite dans le systeme international, Paris, 1991, p. 101 ff.,pp. 131-132.
20. 20 This seems to be the view of the International Court of Justice: cf. Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Merits), I C J R e p o r t s, 1986, p. 14 ff, p.
21. 134, para. 267. See also Art. 62 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
22. 21 MOURGEON, Les droits de rhomme, Paris (Que sais-je?, No. 1728), 1990, 5th ed., p. 82.
23. 22 CASSFN, "La Declaration universale et la mise en oeuvre des droits de Phomme", RCADI, 1951, II, p. 241 ff., p. 327.
24. 23 VIRALLY, "Sur un pont aux anes: les rapports entre droit international et droits internes", in Melanges ojferts a Henri Rolin, Paris, 1964, p. 498.
25. 24 DUGARD, "The Role of Human Rights Treaty-Based Standards in Domestic Law: The Southern African Experience", in ALSTON and CRAWFORD (eds.), The Future of Human Rights Treaty Monitoring, Cambridge, 2000, p. 286.
26. 25 FLAUSS, cit supra n. 9, pp. 13-14.
27. 26 See the excellent article by PROVOST, "Reciprocity in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law",BYIL, 1994, p. 383 f f .
28. 27 See VASAK, "Vers un droit international specifique des droits de 1'homme", in ID. (ed.), cit. supra n. 17, p. 708; granted, these doubts were expressed more than 20 years ago and the parameters of the issue have changed in the meantime.
29. 28 WEIL, "Le droit international economique, mythe ou realite?", in Societe francaise pour le droit international, Collogue d'Orleans. Aspects du droit international economique, Paris, 1972, p. 34.
30. 29 See for instance VALTICOS, "Droit international du travail et souverainetes etatiques", in Melanges Fernand Dehousse, cit. supra n. 16, p. 124.
31. 30 See PELLET, Fifth Report on Reservations to Treaties, UN Doc. A/CN.4/508/Add.l, paras. 154-161.
32. 31 See VASAK, cit. supra n. 27, p. 711.
33. 32 Recueil des travaux preparatoires de la Convention europeenne des droits de Phomme, Vol. IV, p. 854, n. 61.