Individuals

Question 1

PCIJ, advisory opinion, Jurisdiction of the Courts Danzig

Answer 1

Individuals => do not claim rights and obligations under international law => it has to become a right under domestic law

Question 2

Art 36 (1), Vienna Convention

Answer 2

Creates individuals rights under international law

Question 3

ICJ judgment, LaGrand case

Answer 3

Violation of idividuals rights => go to international court

Question 4

Avena and other Mexican Nationals

Answer 4

Interdependance States/ individuals rights

Question 5

Universal Declaration of Human rights, GA

Answer 5

Encourages the development of rights/ treaties based on that

Question 6

Convention relating to the status of refugees

Answer 6

Specific agreements for specific configurations

Question 7

Al-dasni v UK case

Answer 7

Right not to be tortued

Question 8

Rio-Negro Massacres V Guatemala

Answer 8

Right not to be submitted to slavery

Question 9

Art 34, European Convention on Human Rights

Answer 9

Individuals => procedural rights to benefit from substantial rights (claim in front of a european court)

Question 10

International covenants on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights

Answer 10

“the individual has duties to other individuals and to the community”

Question 11

Art 17, European convention on human rights

Answer 11

Direct obligation not to do “act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms”

Question 12

Art 1, Statute of the Nuremberg Tribunal

Answer 12

No particular geographical location

Question 13

Art 27, Rome statue

Answer 13

Irrelevance of official capacity

Question 14

808 resolution, SC

Answer 14

Created the International criminal tribunal for ex-yugoslavia

Question 15

Art 6, Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-yugoslavia

Answer 15

Jurisdiction over individuals, not states

Question 16

Art 15, universal declaration of Human Rights

Answer 16

“Everyone has a right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality not denied the right to change his nationality”

Question 17

Art 8, Convention on the reduction of statelessness

Answer 17

“shall not deprive a person of its nationality if such deprivation would render him stateless”

Question 18

ICJ judgment, Nottobohm case

Answer 18

State = exclusive competence to attribute nationality

Question 19

Art 12, ICCPR

Answer 19

• Minimum standard of treatment
• Can’t be deprived from its right to live in a territory or to come back in its own territory

Question 20

Geneva Convention

Answer 20

Specific protection for refugges