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International Human Rights

International Human Rights. 23.02.2011. The Prohibition of Slavery. 1815: Congress of Vienna, Final Act Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; April 7,1862

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International Human Rights

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  1. International HumanRights 23.02.2011

  2. The ProhibitionofSlavery • 1815: Congressof Vienna, FinalAct • Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; April 7,1862 • League of Nations. Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, September 25, 1926 • United Nations. Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention Signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926, December 7, 1953 • United Nations. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, September 7, 1956

  3. League of Nations. Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, September 25, 1926 Article 2 The High Contracting Parties undertake, each in respect of the territories placed under its sovereignty, jurisdiction, protection, suzerainty or tutelage, so far as they have not already taken the necessary steps: ( a ) To prevent and suppress the slave trade; ( b ) To bring about, progressively and as soon as possible, the complete abolition of slavery in all its forms.

  4. International HumanitarianLaw • 1864:Geneva Convention for the Ameliorationof the Conditionof the Wounded in Armies in the Field • Lieber Code • Institut de Droit International (1880) • HaguePeaceConference 1899: Convention withrespectto the Laws and Customsof War on Land, withannexedRegulations • (HaguePeaceConference 1907)

  5. “Geneva Law” • Convention relative to the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded on Land (1949, subtituting the 1929 Convention) • Convention relative to the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded at Sea (1949) • Convention relative to the Treatment ofPrisonersof War (1949, substituting the 1929 Convention) • Convention relative to the ProtectionofCivilianPersons in Timeof War (1949) • AdditionalProtocol (I) relatingto the ProtectionofVictimsof International ArmedConflict (1967) • AdditionalProtocol (II) relatingto the ProtecitionofVictimsofNon-InternationalArmedConflicts (1967)

  6. Relationship between IHL and IHR ICJ Advisory Opinion, Wall in Palestine (2004) As regards i:he relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law, there are thus three possible situations: some rights may be exclusively matters of international humanitarian law; others may be exclusively matters of human rights law; yet others may be matters of both these branches of international law. In order to answer the question put to it, the Court will have to take into consideration both these branches of inlernational law, namely human rights law and, as lex specialis, international humanitarian law.

  7. International Labour Rights ILO Constitution (1919), Preamble: “universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice”

  8. MinorityRights Regimi previsti dai trattati di pace Art. 27 Patto sui diritti civili e politici (1966) Convenzione quadro per la protezione delle minoranze nazionali (Consiglio d’Europa, 1995) Carta europea per le lingue regionali e minoritarie (Consiglio d’Europa, 1992)

  9. MinorityRights PCIJ, Advisory Opinion, MinoritySchools in Albania(1935), at 19 “Itisperhapsnot easy todefine the distinctionbetween the notionsofequality in fact and equality in law; neverthelessitmaybesaidthat the formernotionexcludes the idea of a merelyformalequality (…) Equality in lawprecludesdiscriminationofanykind; whereasequality in factmay involve the necessityofdifferent treatment in ordertoattain a resultwhichestabilshesanequilibriumbetweendifferentsituations”

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