
Human Rights are in Decline Around the World. What can be Done About it?
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Is It a Matter of Souveranity?
Can you imagine a company that refuse to be externar audited, externally? It's never enjoyable going through orditing. We have eight corps human rights t soa nine corps human treaties. And these impose obligations on states. These are not discretionary. This is not in an we talk about values. I honestly don't know what those values areiean, we have laws. If emerge, they've emerge from customary law, from custom and also the experiences of two world wars. The question is, you, as a state, enter into them voluntarily. Your parliament, instead of agrees to basically will adopt the treaty, the terms,. You are under an obligation to abide by them
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