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1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights

1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights. Law enforcement. Lydia Slobodian. International Law: Principles and Rights. Principles and human rights. International Law: Principles and Rights. Customary international law: legally binding outside the context of a particular convention.

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1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights

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  1. 1.14 International Law: Principles and Rights Law enforcement Lydia Slobodian

  2. International Law: Principles and Rights Principles and human rights.

  3. International Law: Principles and Rights Customary international law: legally binding outside the context of a particular convention.

  4. International Law: Principles and Rights “the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.”

  5. International Law: Principles and Rights “the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.” Principle 21. Stockholm Declaration of 1972

  6. International Law: Principles and Rights “Where there are threats of serious irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”

  7. International Law: Principles and Rights “Where there are threats of serious irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.” Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992

  8. International Law: Principles and Rights Principle of intergenerational equity

  9. International Law: Principles and Rights HUMAN RIGHTS International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  10. International Law: Principles and Rights

  11. International Law: Principles and Rights Human rights Conservation

  12. International Law: Principles and Rights ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS “any activity, whether public or not, in which the right to life may be at stake”

  13. International Law: Principles and Rights ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS “any activity, whether public or not, in which the right to life may be at stake” “where environmental contamination and degradation pose a persistent threat to human life and health”

  14. International Law: Principles and Rights

  15. International Law: Principles and Rights

  16. International Law: Principles and Rights Rights related to access to information, public participation and access to justice.

  17. International Law: Principles and Rights Rights related to access to information, public participation and access to justice. Obligations to meet minimum standards for environmental quality.

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