4.3 - Nature, Practice, and Study of Rights & Justice

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Public International Law: like UN

 

Private international Law:

laws passed between states in alliance with each other – EU or NATO

NATO if one is attacked, all will align with the attacked country

 

Depositary: an entity responsibile for custody of a treaty

In Canada federal government must protect First Nations

 

Ratification:

 

Barriers to protecting rights:#

Challenges to implementation

 

Inadequate Legal Systems:

 

Social Unrest:

Challenges for new Iranian gov. is to codify laws that will be accepted by the people, to legitimize them

 

The UN adopted Responsibility to protect (R2P) justifies military intervention to protect populations in genocides, war crimes, among other atrocities

controversial with powerful states going to weaker ones to benefit and establish corporations for their own agendas

An example of realism – no one is truly going in for humanitarian purpose, only for selfish reasons

Liberalism – cooperation will mean jumping in to help fellow nations

It should be suspicious when states go in without the support of UN peacekeepers with the pretense of “liberation”, and can be considered an attack on sovereignty. The UN has condemned the abduction of Maduro, they should have gotten a resolution passed in the security council, which would allow peacekeepers to go in in a military justified fashion.