The Law
The lawful control by a state over its territory and the authority to apply law there to the exclusion of other states.
What is state sovereignty?
What are treaty-based bodies?
The name of the treaty body that monitors compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
What is the Human Rights Committee?
The first place you should go to research the content of a human right.
What is a secondary source?
In addition to becoming a lawyer, this student would like to open up a flower shop.
Who is Ana Julieta Gonzalez Guerra?
A branch of international public law that protects civilians and war prisoners.
What is International Humanitarian Law?
Issued by UN human rights bodies to provide substantive guidance on specific provisions of a treaty.
What are General Comments?
The city where the first human rights declaration was approved.
What is Bogotá, Colombia?
The only human rights body with the authority to determine if the United States violated the human rights of an individual.
What is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights?
This student is working to identify the risks and benefits of Artificial Intelligence through a human rights framework.
Who is Anna-Maria Gueorguieva?
A peremptory international norm that prohibits slavery, torture, war of aggression.
What is Jus Cogens?
The only international court that adjudicates general disputes between countries and issues rulings that serves a primary source of international law.
What is the International Court of Justice?
This country's constitution recognizez treaties as the "Supreme Law of the Land."
What is the United States?
Reports filed by NGOs before treaty bodies to challenge the State's narrative about compliance with human rights obligations.
What are shadow reports?
This student dreams of becoming an activist-artist who works on mural projects.
Who is Isabella Damberger-Sheldon?
The obligation of the state to adopt appropriate measures towards full realization of a human right.
What is the duty to fulfill?
The legally binding resolutions issued by this charter-based body can be vetoed by one of its permanent members.
What is the UN Security Council?
The three human rights treaties that have been signed and ratified by the United States.
What are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination?
In order for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, or the African Commission of Human Rights to have jurisdiction over case, petitioners must have done this.
What is exhausted domestic remedies?
This student studied the human rights campaign to create Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty.
Who is Annabell Marz?
Four sources of binding international human rights law
What are international treaties, international customary law, general principles, and judicial decisions.
These experts are appointed by the United Nations to conduct country visits, receive information about allegation of human rights abuses, and issue reports.
What are Special Rapporteurs?
The treaty ratified by the highest number of states.
The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
The United States's human rights record was reviewed by this UN body in 2020.
These students dream of becoming a Supremes.
Who are Harmony Lau and Tanner Kennin?