Magister Legum - LLM (Public Law and Jurisprudence) / The international human rights architecture experienced a shift from states to individual rights
within a state. This is mainly informed by the fact that states committed human rights atrocities
against their own civilians. This necessitated a shift from an emphasis on sovereignty and noninterference
to intervention on grave human rights violations. Article 2 of the UN Charter calls
for respect of sovereignty and discourages the use of armed force against the territorial integrity of any state.1 To reinforce this position, the United Nations (UN) member states adopted the
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine through the UN World Summit outcome document in
2005. This document effectively gave the international community the right to intervene into the
affairs of a member state if the state is failing to halt human rights abuses within its territory.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/6322 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Mthamo, Khayalandile Lwando |
| Contributors | Mezmur, Benyam |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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