1414 index
human rights (cont.)
CIS and 240
collective rights 271
conflict prevention and 377
cultural relativism and 41–2, 268–70
customary international law 275
environment and 847–8, see also
environmental rights
equality of states and 45, 49
ethics/morality and 266
EU and 369–72
European system 345–80
extradition and 687
Helsinki Final Act (1975)
and 117–18, 373
Human Rights of Individuals who are
not Nationals of the Country in
which they Live (UNGA resolution
40/144) 826
individual as subject of international
law and 258, 268–9
interdependence 848
international humanitarian law,
convergence 1168, 1196–8
international legal personality
and 197
as interrelated complex of rights
280
jus cogens/peremptory norms
and 266–7
minorities and: see minorities,
protection of
municipal and international law,
interrelationship 130
national security 357–8, 1181–2
Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights (OSCE) 1289
OSCE and 372–8, 1289
promotion as basic purpose of
government 374
recognition of states and 451, 452,
461
‘right’ 265–6
specialised agencies and 299
standard of treatment of aliens
and 825–6
state immunity and 715–18
state responsibility and 793
state as source of 268–9
state sovereignty/domestic
jurisdiction principle and 49, 213,
268, 269, 270, 272–3, 278, 488, 648
state/statehood, right to and 207, 451
sustainable development principle
and 848
terrorism and 43–4, 1159, 1161,
1164–6
UN Norms on the Responsibilities of
Tr an snational Corporations
(2003) 250
universality 269, 280
values underlying 267
websites 1335–6
Human Rights Chamber of Bosnia and
Herzegovina: see Bosnia and
Herzegovina Human Rights
Chamber
Human Rights Commission: see
UNCHR (UN Commission on
Human Rights)
Human Rights Committee: see UNHRC
human rights, compliance/enforcement
see also Child, Committee on the
Rights of; Disabilities, Committee
on the Rights of Persons with;
ECOSOC; Enforced
Disappearances Committee;
Migrant Workers Committee;
Racial Discrimination Committee;
regional human rights bodies,
common practices; Torture
Committee; UN Human Rights
Council; UN, human rights
responsibilities; UN treaty bodies;
UNHRC; Women, Committee on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against
amnesty laws and 271–2, 372 n35,
390, 420
education in 280, 281, 337
exhaustion of local remedies
and 273–4
extraterritorial responsibilities 276
inconsistencies, risk of 327, 336–7
level of 266
machinery for 271
national human rights bodies 276
non-state actors 272