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Detail - Table of Declarations that Human Rights is a Major Principle of International Law
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Respect for the human rights of the people of the world has become one of the basic principles of international law:
- 1. It has been enshrined as such in article 1 of the "Charter of the United Nations" in 1945;
- 2. It has been clarified in an important series of international laws such as the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948) and two International Covenants protecting civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights (1966).
- 3. In the Vienna Conventions on the Laws of Treaties (1969 and 1986), respect for human rights were named as an important criteria of "Jus Cogens" – a higher law by which all other laws are judged.
- 4. The United Nations declared in the "Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations" (1970), that respect for human rights and the right of self-determination were named amongst the 7 most important principles in international law.
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