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The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman …
redress.orginternational law, this is known as a jus cogens norm). This applies even in times of war or threat of war, internal political instability or public emergency, and there are no exceptional circumstances whatsoeverunderwhichtorturecan be justified,including any threatof terroristactsor violentcrime, or religious or traditional justification.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for …
www.ohchr.orgpractices have achieved the level of customary international law and have attained ‘jus cogens’ status.”8 7. The International Court of Justice has identified protection from slavery as one of two exam-ples of “obligations erga omnes arising out of human rights law,”9 or obligations owed by a State to the international community as a ...
FRAGMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: DIFFICULTIES …
legal.un.orgVienna Convention on the Law of Treaties); (e) hierarchy in international law: jus cogens, obligations erga omnes, Article 103 of the Charter of the United Nations, as conflict rules. 4 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/58/10), chap. X,
CUADERNILLO DE JURISPRUDENCIA DE LA CORTE …
www.corteidh.or.crCARÁCTER DE JUS COGENS Corte IDH. Propuesta de modificación a la Constitución Política de Costa Rica relacionada con la naturalización. Opinión Consultiva OC-4/84 de 19 de enero de 1984. Serie A No. 4 55. La noción de igualdad se desprende directamente de la …
Chapter V Peremptory norms of general international law …
legal.un.orgPeremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens) A. Introduction 46. At its sixty-seventh session (2015), the Commission decided to include the topic ... Rapporteur (A/CN.4/727). The fourth report discussed the previous consideration of the topic in the Commission and the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly. It also addressed ...