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Part IV The Content of International Responsibility, Ch.51.1 Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights Obligations: International Mechanisms

Susan Marks, Fiorentina Azizi

From: The Law of International Responsibility

Edited By: James Crawford, Alain Pellet, Simon Olleson, Kate Parlett

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 30 March 2023

Subject(s):
Responsibility of states — Wrongful acts — Diplomatic protection — Treaties, interpretation
In a lecture delivered in 2000 Alain Pellet took up the subject of ‘ “human rightism” and international law’.1 Explaining his use of the term ‘human rightism’, he noted that this phrase might be deployed in a number of different ways. For example, it might be used to criticize the moralism of human rights activists, and to highlight the dangers associated with the transformation of human rights into a secular religion. Pellet expressed some sympathy with these concerns, but stated that for him the primary meaning of human rightism is more ‘neutral’ and technical,...
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