...is the protection of populations from the effects of radio-active fallout, it can be said to derive from the principles and rules concerning the basic rights of the human person. On the basis of the above, it is suggested that it would be more accurate to treat the Australian claim...

...literally, means 'as against all': [A]n essential distinction should be drawn between the obligations of a State towards the international community as...discrimination. Some of the corresponding rights of 139 See generally Bissell (1977); and Ozgur (1982). 140 See, eg, Art. 5(3) of the International Convention...

...against humanity." She states: obligations owed to the international community as a whole, stating that such obligations derive, for example, in contemporary...person, including protection from slavery and racial discrimination.126 (emphasis added). 122 See Luzius Wildhaber & Stephan Breitenmoser, The Relationship...

...position. Asrat, supra, note 2 at 185. The Court stated in that case that obligations of this type "derive, for example, in contemporary international...protection from slavery and racial discrimination...". See, Barcelona Traction (Judgement) (1970) International Court of Justice Reports 3 at para.33. This...

...mind only the human rights which qualified as ius cogens norms. As the ICJ indicated there. erga omnes obligations "derive. for example. in contemporary...person. including protection from slavery and racial discrimination".144 Three out of the four examples of obligations erga omnes given by the International...

...interest io their protectioa: they are obligations erga omnes. Such obligations derive. lor esumple. in contemporary international law. from the outlawing...person. including protection from slavery and racial diseranination.7 More recently. the European Court of Human Rights. in a landmark judgment of 23 March...

...Light & Power Co. Ltd (Belg. v. Spain), 1970 I,CJ 3. "Such obligations derive, for example, in the contemporary international law, from the outlawing...protection from slavery and racial discrimination." 27 Maurizio Ragazzi, The Concept of Obligations Erga Omnes (Oxford, 1997), at 144. 28 Vienna Convention...

...domain. Its mistreatment of its own citizens is a violation of the 'universal obligations deriving ... from the principles and rules concerning the basic rights of the human person'24* which very often leads to the influx of a large number of refugees into other States245...

...(Boston, 1985), pp. 1-32, at p. 15. In Barcelona Traction, 1C1 Reports, 1970, p. 32, the Court referred to the 'principles and rules concerning the basic rights of the human person . . . ' as giving rise to obligations erga omnes, but it is not clear whether the Court was referring...

..."erga omnes" are those in respect of which all states have a legal interest. The Court stated that "[s]uch obligations derive, for example, in contemporary...protection from slavery and racial discrimination". Since the right of self-determination is part of customary law, it will be applied by Canadian courts...