GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The humans right according to Rene CASSIN, are defined
« as a particular branch of social sciences which has the aim of
studying the relationship between the men according to human dignity, by
determining the rights and faculties whose whole is necessary to the blooming
of the personality of each human being »1(*). On the other hand for Yves
MADIOT, « The object of the humans right is the study of the rights
of the person recognized at the level national and international and which- in
a certain state of civilization- ensure the conciliation enters, on the one
hand, the assertion of the dignity of the person and her protection and, on the
other hand, the maintenance of law and order »2(*). Lastly, according to the
constitutional dictionary, the humans right are « rights of the
individual seized in his abstracted universal gasoline, they are conceived like
former and higher than the substantive law in order to being the standard of
its validity and the limit fixed at the legitimate capacity of the
State »3(*).
Compared to the substantive law, the doctrines retain that the
humans right in their current dimension would have developed by stages. With
each one of those would correspond to a certain type of identified right,
obvious mark of their progressive evolution.4(*)
Formulated overall and in their universal dimension at the end
of XIIIe century, the humans right were almost exclusively civil laws and
political, those which aimed at ensuring it « freedom »,
while allowing the men to release itself from the constraints and the
limitations of Ancien Régime feudal ; they are them
« rights of freedom ». Appeared under the socialist and
Christian inspiration with the Mexican revolution and especially the Russian
Revolution, the humans right were to make it possible to the men to become
equal, in the their grateful economic rights, social and cultural : it is
about « rights of the equality ».
The first generation, that of the civil laws and
political5(*) contains
rights attributes of the human person, rights which are, essentially opposable
to the State whose they suppose initially an attitude of abstention so that
they can be respected.
The second generation of the humans right who is that of the
economic rights, social and cultural6(*), contains the rights of credit on the State and the
Nation as a community and international organized, rights which are thus
exigible from the State to be able to be realized.
The rights of the third generation as for them are new,
because the aspirations which they express are new under the angle of the
humans right aiming at making penetrate the human dimension of which it missed
too often up to now, being abandoned in the State ; it is of the
development, peace, the environment, and the common inheritance of humanity and
the humane assistance in the event of human distress. The rights of the third
generation finally are opposable at the State and exigible from him ; but
especially (and it is their essential characteristic there) they can be to
realize only by the conjunction of the efforts of all the actors of the social
play : the individual, the State, public and private entities and
international community. Their recognition supposes that there is a minimum of
social consensus at the national and international level, so that an action
interdependent founded on the recognition of an interdependent responsibility,
can be undertaken for their realization. Rights of freedom, right of the
equality, right of fraternity and solidarity : such are the three
generations of the human adventure.
Thus, the need for taking care that the humans right are
protected by a legal status, was underlined by the United Nations since the
development of the Universal Declaration of the Humans right7(*) and guided UNO in its activities
of promotion and protection of the humans right. The preamble to the Charter of
the United Nations proclaims the faith of the people in the basic human rights,
the dignity and the value of the human person, in the equality of humans right
and of the women. The goals and objectives of the Charter contained in articles
1 and 2 go in the same direction, these provisions are made more explicit with
the article 55c which declares than the United Nations aim « the
universal and effective respect of the humans right and of fundamental freedoms
for all, without reference of race, sex, language or religion ». As
almost all the human problems have an aspect which interests the humans right,
all the principal bodies of the United Nations approach in a way and the
another question of the humans right.
During this study, we will dwell too long primarily on the way
in which the International Court of Justice (CIJ) approaches the problems of
the humans right. But above all, it will be necessary for us to make a short
outline of the CIJ.
Contrary to Court permanent of justice international (CPJI)
which was juridically independent of the Company of the Nations (SDN), the CIJ
is the principal legal body of the United Nations8(*) instituted by the Charter whose organization,
competence and operation are regulated by a Statute annexed to the Charter of
the United Nations and whose mission is on the one hand, to settle in
accordance with the international law the disagreements between the States
which are subjected to him, on the other hand to give advisory opinions on
legal questions which are asked to him by the international bodies qualified to
this end.
If the International Court of Justice is bound by provisions
of its Statute annexed to the Charter, it is on the other hand the author of
its own payment, which fixes in particular the procedure. It can constantly, if
it considers it necessary to make modifications9(*) to the payment in accordance with article 30 of its
Statute.
With regard to the procedure in front of the CIJ, there are
two of them : contentious procedure and consultation procedure.
In the contentious procedure10(*) , only the States can ester before the Court,
this one can know of a disagreement only if the States in question accepted its
competence of the one in the three following ways :
- Under the terms of an agreement (compromised) concluded
between them with a precise aim to submit their disagreement to the
Court11(*) ;
- Under the terms of an arbitration clause12(*) , one also speaks about
conventional clause of jurisdiction established like precondition to the sasine
of the CIJ13(*).
- By the declaration of acceptance of the obligatory
jurisdiction, the jurisdiction of the CIJ remains optional and the States must
accept its competence so that it can rule. « The States left
with the Statute can, at any moment, to state to recognize like obligatory
automatically and without special convention, with regard to any other State
accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the
Court »14(*).
Like source of the applicable duty15(*), the Court applies :
- International Conventions establishing of the rules
expressly recognized by the States in litigation ;
- The international habit like proof of a general practice,
accepted as being right ;
- Court orders and doctrines of the most qualified publicity
agents various nations.
Contrary to the contentious procedure, the consultation
procedure is not opened in the States, only the international organizations
have access there. Article 96 of the Charter of the United Nations provides
that apart from the General meeting16(*) and of the Security Council17(*), can also ask an opinion the
Court, any body of UNO and any specialized agency18(*) which would have been
authorized there by the General meeting. This authorization was rather
liberally granted, except notable for the Secretary General of the United
Nations.
The advisory opinion is not a legal measure. Not having the
obligatory force of the stop, it is analyzed like a decision, an opinion of the
Court, intended to light the body which consults it. In practice, the advisory
opinions generally are essential because of their moral authority. They contain
with the surplus one of the components of any legal measure, namely the
observation of the right in force. As, the opinions are placed on the same plan
as the stops in the determination of « jurisprudence » of
the Court. It can occur that advisory opinions acquire obligatory force, but
because of a particular legal base. Such a result can be reached by
« the acceptance of the opinion by the interested States19(*). Their obligatory force can
also rest on a constitutional basis20(*).
After this short presentation of the missions and competence
of the International Court of Justice, it should be stressed that this one
plays an important part as for the pacification of the international company.
On the other hand as regards the humans right, the Court it plays only one
incidental part because the States hesitate to subject the dispute to him
relating to it, taking into account the political connotation which
characterizes the disagreements relating to the humans right.
Thus for better determining our study relating to the
International Court of Justice and the problems of the humans right, we will
consider initially the framework of the study (I), in which we will examine the
interest of the subject, the problems and the assumptions. Then, we will see
the control of the study (II), which will enable us to work out a review of
literature, a methodological process and to adopt a scheme of work.
I- TALLY OF THE STUDY
To tally the study is to set up the elements which enable us
to circumscribe it. These elements turn around its interest (A) and of its
problems (B).
A- INTEREST OF THE STUDY
This interest is at the same time social (1) and scientist
(2).
1- Social interest
This study comprises a social interest in the direction where
the humans right are rights available to all the people, under the terms of
their human condition to live free in dignity.
The fact even human being confers rights, with the man, thus
the humans right concentrate on the value of the people having the right to
expect to enjoy certain freedoms and certain forms of protection.
John LOCKE for example thought that the protection of the
private laws could ensure the protection of the common good, people having the
right to protect itself and to respect this same right at the others21(*).
The social interest within the framework of this work is
manifest in the direction where, the company is regarded as being the
receptacle and the field of application of all the implications which can rise
from the decisions of the States, the international organizations and the
international jurisdictions in particular here the International Court of
Justice.
The Court, can be brought to come to a conclusion about a
demand for indication of academies measurements of a State left to the
litigation, when this one is confronted with massive violations of the humans
right, which can cause irrevocable injuries22(*). The life and the activities of the populations thus
remain related to marked of the international judge vis-a-vis the humans
right.
2- Scientific interest
The scientific interest here supposes the contribution of this
study in the world of science and research, with regard to the problems of the
humans right before the International Court of Justice. This study makes some
proposes to consider the role that the Court vis-a-vis the questions of the
humans right plays. It is a question for us of initially examining the
scientific step, then the legal reasoning and finally the legal assessment of
the Court when it is brought to come to a conclusion about the problems of the
humans right.
Indeed, it is interesting to note within the framework of this
work that the International Court of Justice which, at the end of article 92 of
the Charter of the United Nations, is the legal body « the main
thing » (and nonsupreme) of UNO (and not of the international
company), plays a role determining as regards the protection of the humans
right.
B- PROLEMATIQUE AND ASSUMPTIONS
The definition of the problems (A) induces that of the
assumptions (B).
1- Problems
The International Court of Justice which is the principal
legal body of the United Nations had the occasion on several occasions to come
to a conclusion about aspects touching with the humans right. It did it by
advisory way23(*) ,
but also by contentious way24(*) . If jurisprudence accredits the idea that the
standards relating to the humans right from now on are more integrated into the
general international law25(*), it does not remain about it less than the
international judge, by « legal prudence » undoubtedly
to tendency to identify say them standards by themselves or their wording, but
at all by their source26(*).
Therefore, no stop or opinion of the International Court of
Justice comprises assertion express in favor of the membership of the
principles relating to the protection of the humans right, either with the
common law, or with the category of the general principles of right27(*). In addition, it should well
be been appropriate that the standpoint of the jurisdiction of The Hague is
made conspicuous especially by their generic character. This is why the
essential question that we will consider within the framework of our study is
that of knowing how is what the International Court of Justice approaches the
problems of the humans right? Therefore, we then will reflect on the
effectiveness of its action in comparison with the universal protection of the
humans right, and finally we will consider the means of improving its
intervention as regards the humans right.
2- Assumptions
Within the framework of the problems of the humans right, the
International Court of Justice plays an incidental part, taking into account
not only the missions which are assigned to him by its Statute and the Charter
of the United Nations, but also because of the political implications which the
disagreements of the humans right cause. Indeed, the role of the Court is that
to interpret the international law and the practice of the States in the event
of disagreement. What means that the Court does not have a competence
specialized as regards the humans right.
has - Principal assumption
Although it intervenes in an incidental way, the International
Court of Justice plays a determining part as regards protection of the humans
right taking into consideration the international law and practice of the
States.
b- Secondary assumptions
· At the time of its interventions, the Court worked out
certain constraining standards in favor of human dignity to knowing :
the juice cogens, the obligations erga omnes or elementary
considerations of humanity.
· The Court intervenes efficiently with the pacification
of the international company and the emergence of the new fields of
international law like the right to the environment and of the right to
health.
II THE CONTROL OF THE STUDY
Our study will be undertaken through a review of literature
(A), a methodology (A), and a beforehand definite plan (C).
A- THE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
The International Court of Justice, body legal principal of
the United Nations, has a general and universal competence to know the
litigations between States. It has of this fact competence to rule on the
problems raised by the respect of the humans right in times of peace as in the
event of wars. In addition its decisions are final and obligatory for the parts
and the Security Council holds of article 94 of the Charter authority to ensure
the execution of it. But it is quite rare that a State voluntarily agrees to
see disputing its action in the field of the humans right. It is also rare that
a State disputes in front of the judge the behavior of a State in similar
field. It results from it that the Court hardly had the occasion to rule on
such behaviors in the device of its judgments and to try to rectify
them28(*).
At the time of its interventions as regards the humans right,
the Court often bases itself on the core of the activity of the United Nations
to knowing the international Charter of the humans right consisted the
universal Declaration of the humans right adopted on December 10, 1948 by the
General meeting, the two Pacts of 1966 and the optional protocol annexed to the
Pact relating to the civil laws and political. In addition to these fundamental
texts, there are also many protective conventions of the humans right29(*). However, the International
Court of Justice was not satisfied only with the Texts existing, it also
launched out in the development of certain standards relating to the humans
right. There is initially : the juice cogens. For Serge ON,
the juice cogens « conduit, under the badly defined conditions,
at least with the nullity of the treaties, and can be with particular forms of
international responsibility. Beyond the particular subjects, it aims at as a
whole protecting the interest from the international community of the States,
of which it proceeds. But it is not alone to take into
account »30(*).
Then, the Court devoted the obligations erga omnes which are essential
with regard to all the States. Francesco SALERNO estimates that « the
Court for a long time recognized that the duty of repair rises like corollary
from any violation from an international obligation. It does not seem that the
obligations erga omnes make exception at this
point »31(*). It
adds that « the legal function of the Court does not relate to only
the complaints of the States left to the procedure but also contributes to
affirm the effectivity of the international standards
concerned »32(*). Lastly, within the framework of the humane right the
Court devoted the elementary principles of humanity ; Pierre Marie DUPUY,
thinks that « the new reference made by the Court to these
elementary considerations of humanity thus proves the remanence of a reference
to this concept undoubtedly as fertile as ambiguity since it is not always
known if it indicates a source of right or if it remains only one legal extra
inspirer of the judge. The analysis of its jurisprudential occurrence, though
relatively rare, appears at all events justified by the fact that its
considerations are not taken into account, in all assumptions, that at the time
of the invocation by the Court of rules for which it intends to stress the
extreme importance and the need for seeing them applied by
all »33(*).
Always in the field of the humane right, Vincent CHETAIL was very clear in his
article entitled : « The contribution off the international
international Court off justice to humanitarian law »34(*). This article indeed,
evaluates the contribution of the International Court of Justice to the humane
international law. The author thinks that the International Court of Justice
contributes to highlight the fundamental values of the community that the
international community expressed in the humane international law. Its
jurisprudence represents an essential contribution, because, on the one hand,
it clarifies the relation between the humane international law and the general
international law, and on the other hand, it specifies the contents of the
fundamental principles of the humane international law. The article examines
the judgments and advisory opinions of the Court and evaluates perception that
this one has complex relation between the treaties of humane right, the rules
usual and the juice cogens.
In a general way, « it should be recognized that the
law of nations is concentrated more on the human problems and is thus worried
directly individual interests which are committed there, it is normal that he
grants to the individual a considerable place in the technical mechanism of his
realization. One has the right to suppose that, in a form or in another, its
intervention will become more frequent and more active there "35(*). It is necessary to note
by-there an increase in the normative activity of the International Court of
Justice as regards the humans right. And, « with regard to the number
of the humans right on the which Court had the occasion de' to decide, it goes
without saying that the access to the Court limited to the States, its
jurisprudence particular could not, essentially, develop in an abundant way.
Nevertheless the Court was obliged to discuss some subjects which, nowadays,
gained or found, because of the international events, their pressing
topicality ; let us quote for example the right of the minorities, the
prohibition of racial discriminations or the discussed sector of the humane
intervention ». 36(*)
B- METHODOLOGY
1- Method of analysis
The methodological process that we chose in the development of
this work is the research-action. This method is not a simple methodological
misadventure of traditional sociology, it expresses on the contrary a true
transformation in the manner of conceiving and of making research in social
sciences. It is a research inside which there is an action deliberated on the
transformation of reality, but more especially to produce knowledge to carry
out these transformations.
The research-action can be defined with Benoît GAUTHIER
like « a method of research, which makes the actor enquiring,
and who directs research towards the action and which brings back the action
towards the considerations of research »37(*). On the other hand, Louis
LEWIN defines research action « while referring to three components,
namely research, the formation and the action »38(*). The research-action leads to
a new inscription of the researcher in the company, by the recognition of one
competence in the search of expert of the social one. Accordingly, it agrees to
enquérir place of the man in nature and the action organized to give him
direction. It is defined then in his relationship with the complexity of the
human life taken in its dynamic totality and does not deny oneself in front of
the relation unknown which the finitude of any existence discovers to him.
The research-action integrates in its logic theoretical
specificities of sciences anthroposociales and the various systems of
sensitivities and intelligibility suggested by the cultures of the world.
Accordingly, the researcher cannot be defined any more simply as a sociologist
or a social psychologist. In its practice, he is a sometimes sociologist,
social psychologist, philosophical, historian, economist, inventor or militant.
He discovers the areas of the knowledge of a thought galiléenne accepted
in his meaning plenitude. The researcher plays a professional part in
dialectical which unceasingly articulates the implication and the distance,
affectivity and rationality, symbolism and the imaginary one, the mediation and
the challenge, science and art, trainer and trained. The researcher is neither
agent, of an institution, neither an actor of an organization, nor an
individual without social membership, on the other hand it accepts these
various roles at certain times of its action and its reflection. It is at the
same time autonomous and an actor of its practice and its speech.
This method of research-action will enable us to plan in a
clear way without anything to leave randomly, all the legal implications which
rise from the role of the International Court of Justice as regards the humans
right, in order to give place to a thorough study of the intervention of the
International Court of Justice.
2- Techniques of investigation
The techniques of investigation return in the practical
conditions of collection of information. We chose in the development of this
work with two techniques of research to knowing : the information
retrieval and maintenance.
· The information retrieval
The information retrieval consists in excavating in the
works and various publications like the reviews or the newspapers : texts
of law, elements of doctrines and jurisprudence which make it possible to
encircle and to tame the object of a study. This type of research is realizable
in the libraries and the research and studies centers. We chose this technique,
because it tallies perfectly with the object of our study. It is simply a
question for us of examining the reasoning and the contribution of the Court
when this one is confronted with the problems of the humans right. Thus, for
better encircling the object of this study, our attention will be focused on
the texts, the doctrines and the decisions of the Court as regards the humans
right. The information retrieval proceeded in the libraries of the Catholic
Institute of Yaounde and the APDHAC39(*), which together have about ten thousand works in
their data bases.
· Maintenance
The various talks concerned the lawyers in a general way, and
a particular way, the teachers and researchers in international law. It is
generally acts of individual talks semi-directing lasting on average an hour.
The choice of semi-directing maintenance is explained by the fact why it is
maintenance procedures which are neither entirely open, nor channeled by a
great number of precise questions. It made it possible to let come inquired so
that this one can speak openly, in the words which it wishes and in the order
which is appropriate to him. We simply endeavoured to center maintenance on the
objectives of research each time our person interviewed deviated some, in order
to ask him questions to which it did not manage to answer the most suitable
moment, and in a way as natural as possible. It was sometimes necessary to turn
over to see the people interviewed for a further information.
C- JUSTIFICATION OF THE PLAN
Our study starts with an introduction into which present we
the framework and control of it. The framework enabled us to locate this study
in its context, the control indicates to us in addition how it will be carried
out.
The choice of a plan with two parts answers a preoccupation of
harmonization of the ideas and especially with a coherence of the analyzes. It
is indeed logical within the framework of this work, to initially consider the
role of the International Court of Justice as regards the humans right, before
appreciating the contribution of its interventions.
Indeed, it is after having elucidated and clarified the role
if not the contribution of the Court, that one will be able to appreciate the
relevance of his interventions, or the implications which result from this on
the international law in general, and in particular on the States and the
international organizations.
The first part is primarily analytical, it analyzes the step
of the interventions of the Court in its incidental role as regards the humans
right, on the basis of the standards which it worked out. On the other hand,
the second part is much more critical ; it is based on the effectivity and
the implementation of the principles worked out by the Court, but also on the
incidences which rise from the use of these principles. From where :
First part : the role of the CIJ as regards the humans
right ;
Second part : the evaluation of the role of the CIJ as
regards the humans right.
FIRST PART : THE ROLE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE AS REGARDS THE HUMANS RIGHT
The International Court of Justice is not a Court of the
humans right to the current direction of the term, the private people cannot
show the States before the Court due to violations of the humans right.
Nevertheless, a certain number of businesses raised important
questions relating to the humans right, and gave place to decisions of the
Court which made date.
Thus, the International Court of Justice which has as a role
to interpret the international law by the means of the International
Conventions and the practice of the States, has at the time of its
interventions as regards the humans right, elaborate certain standards known as
imperative (Chapter 1), and others in favor of human dignity (Chapter 2),
within the framework of the protection of the humans right.
CHAPTER I : The INTERVENTION
OF the CIJ AND
DEVELOPMENT OF the IMPERATIVE
STANDARDS
The International Court of Justice in the interpretation of
the international law worked out certain imperative standards which apply today
as regards the humans right to know the standards of juice cogens
(section 1), and the obligations erga omnes (section 2).
SECTION I : DEVELOPMENT OF the
JUICE COGENS STANDARDS
The development of the contemporary international law takes
into account today several standards worked out by the International Court of
Justice, it acts for example here of the juice cogens. This standard
which is the subject of doctrinal debates since the XXe century, remains still
disputed nowadays. Thus, we will consider here the contents of the juice
standard cogens (paragraphe1), before analyzing its implementation by the
Court, within the framework of the protection of the humans right
(paragraphe2).
Paragraph 1 : Contents of the
juice cogens standard
For better determining the concept of juice cogens,
we will examine initially his dedication (A), then its determination (B).
A- Dedication and contents of the
juice cogens standard
The juice cogens can be regarded as the legal device
(concept of imperative standard) being used as document in proof for
cancellation of a treaty or some of its provisions, i.e. for the invalidation
of an international legal document at a rate of its illicit object.
Devoted in 1969 to the conference of Vienna on the right of
the treaties, the concept of juice cogens is vague on the legal level,
even if article 53 of the Convention of Vienna tries to give him an official
definition. According to this article : « Null is very treated
which, at the time of its conclusion, is in conflict with an imperative
standard of the general international law. For purposes of this Convention, an
imperative standard of international law is a standard accepted and recognized
by the international community of the States as a whole as a standard which no
exemption is allowed and which can be modified only by one new standard of
international law having the same character »40(*).
The juice cogens is universal and applies to the
profit of all the members of the international company, it acts of a kind of
international law and order, i.e. the defense of a general interest which is
essential on the particular interest States.
The Convention of Vienna of 1969 does not enumerate in an
exhaustive way the cases of juice cogens in its articles. However, the
Commission of international law limited itself to give of them some examples,
we will mention some without taking account of an order preferably or
hierarchical, there is for example :
- certain principles of humane right
- the principle of non-intervention,
- the sovereignty of the States,
- the respect of the word given (principle pacta sunt
servanda),
- the peaceful payment of the disagreements,
- the respect of the diplomatic and consular right,
- illiceity of the genocide, slavery, the draft and piracy,
- the principle of the responsibility and compensation for the
damage caused with others,
- the autonomy of the will of the States and contractual
freedom in conformity with the international law,
- the respect of the minimum standard in the treatment granted
the abroads.
The juice cogens striking of nullity all the treaties
which are not subjected to it, and article 64 Convention of Vienna of 1969,
lays out that if a new standard of general international law occurs, very
treated existing which is in conflict with this standard becomes null and does
not have any more a legal force. It should be recognized that the Convention of
Vienna of 1969 crystallizes a mode of nullity which existed already at the
internal level.
Indeed, the various legal orders intern apply two types of
nullity as regards contract : absolute nullity and relative nullity.
Absolute nullity on the other hand sanctions the serious illegalities which
affect the general interest and disturb the law and order, relative nullity,
strikes the violation of the rules posed with an only aim of protecting the
contractors as private people.
According to the traditionally allowed opinion in doctrines,
the international order would be unaware of this distinction between relative
nullity and absolute nullity. Any nullity would be relative there because the
principle of the effectivity would play there the part of a general process,
cover and irregular situation in the beginning which profited from a durable
application. These doctrines appear confirmed by the jurisprudence which
abstained from striking absolute nullity an award sullied with abuse of power
or of violation of compromise, irregularities however serious which it would
have been of public interest to sanction severely41(*).
The authors of the Convention of Vienna let themselves
influence neither by this practice, nor by these doctrines. They cumulatively
retained these two types of nullity by assigning with each one a precise field
of application and by determining the differences in mode, which relate to the
possibility of making play the principle of divisibility and of agreeing to the
irregularity for the State victim, and on the right to call upon the vice one
which sullies the treaty. Thus by relative nullity all the irregularities of
the assent other than are sanctioned the constraint, i.e. the non-compliance
with the constitutional procedures42(*), the error43(*), the fraud and the corruption of the representative
of a State.
Absolute nullity as for it relates to for example the
constraint exerted on the person of the representative of the State44(*), or the treaties vitiated by
the constraint exerted on the State45(*).
Paragraph 2: The CIJ and the
implementation of the juice cogens standard
We will consider in this part the implementation of the
juice cogens standard by the International Court of Justice (A),
before noting that this setting works residence a hesitant practice (B).
A- The implementation of the juice
cogens standard by the CIJ
Without using the term of juice cogens, the
International Court of Justice decided for the first time on this concept in a
stop of February 5, 1970, by affirming that « an essential
distinction must in particular be established between the obligations of the
States towards the international community as a whole and those which are born
with respect to another State within the framework from diplomatic protection.
With their nature even, the first relate to all the States »46(*).
Last nine years later, the Court adds in an ordinance of
December 15, 1979, « that no State has the obligation to maintain the
diplomatic relations or consular with another States, but what under no
circumstances would it miss recognizing the imperative obligations which they
comprise and who are now codified in Conventions of Vienna of 1961 and of 1963
to which Iran and the United States left »47(*).
The consultation of the jurisprudence of the International
Court of Justice, makes it possible to note that there exists, among the humane
legal provisions to which a usual range is recognized of long date, of the
principles equipped with a particular authority. Thus in the business relating
to the military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this one
(Nicaragua against the United States, bottom) ; the Court considered that
« the behavior of the United States could be to appreciate according
to the basic general principles of humane right whose, in his opinion,
Conventions of Geneva constitute in certain connections the development and
which in certain connections they do nothing but express »48(*).
Indeed, the International Court of Justice estimates that the
principles of the humane international law contained to article 3 commun run
with Conventions of Geneva « intransgressibles principles of the
usual international law constitute »49(*).
In that, it takes again the general observation n° 24 of
the Committee of the humans right according to whom « the
provisions of the Pact which represent rules of the usual international law (a
fortiori when they have the character of imperative standards) cannot be the
subject of reserve »50(*). The role thus is seen that the International Court
of Justice as regards the humans right plays, in the transformation of the
contemporary international law, this role contributes to forge standards of
international law in which the values of justice and humanity precede. This
role also contributes to the integration of the States in a community of
membership ; work of professor Rene Jean DUPUY magistralement showed that
this community of membership is humanity51(*). Humanity as a community of membership fits moreover
in the current evolution of universalization and allows to reach with the
universalization of the humans right.
The man must be able to be protected where that it is and the
States have for this reason, from the particular obligations. From these
particular obligations rises for example « interest to
act » that each State for the safeguarding of the basic rights has of
the human person. The interest to act before the International Court of Justice
was the subject of a jurisprudence abundant, but not always constant. Indeed,
November 4, 1960, Ethiopia and Liberia deposited a request before the Court,
requiring a judgment of the policy followed by South Africa in the African
western South (under mandate). They were the two only African States which
before were members of the Company of Nations (SDN). In its stop of December 21
of the 1962, the Court reaffirmed the recognition « of a crowned
mission of civilization falling on the Company as an organized international
community and its members »52(*). The legal recourse, initiated by a member of the SDN
constituted the ultimate means of protection against the violations of
provisions of the mandate. The Court stated itself qualified to know
disagreement at the bottom. But four years later, it declared «that the
applicants could not be like having established the existence with their profit
a right or legal interest with the glance of the object of these
requests ; consequently, the Court must refuse to take action pursuant to
it. By the casting vote of its president (Sir Percy Spender), the voices being
shared, the Court decide to refuse the applications of the Empire of Ethiopia
and the Republic of Liberia »53(*). The Court recognized that all the nations could have
an interest with the achievement of the crowned mission of civilization, but
that it would not be about legal interest, constituting the base of an action
in front of it.
This completely negative conclusion constituted a watershed,
blocking in an absolute way the interest to act before the international Court,
for any State in connection with the protection of the people under mandate.
But the contribution of the Court towards the broadest possible protection of
the humans right will not stop, in spite of the decision of 1966.
Indeed, in one of its observations most famous and most
important about the protection of the basic rights for the States, the Court
declared that « considering the importance of the rights in question,
all the States can be regarded as having a legal interest so that these rights
are protected ; the obligations in question are obligations erga
omnes »54(*).
B- Hesitant practice of the juice
cogens standard
In its advisory opinion on the admissibility of the threat or
the use of the nuclear weapons, the Court took care to avoid coming to a
conclusion about the recognition of the juice cogens character, while
at the same time it insists on fundamental, cardinal and intransgressibles
principles. The Court notes that it was constant that these humane principles
and legal provisions belong to the juice cogens, but it affirms that
it « does not have to come to a conclusion about this
point »55(*).
However, in his declaration, President Bedjaoui considers
that « he is not doubt... that the majority of the principles
and rules of the humane right... form part juice
cogens »56(*).
To solve the misunderstandings as for the difficulty in
identifying a standard like imperative, article 66 of the Convention of Vienna
stipulates that in the event of disagreement concerning the application or the
interpretation of articles 53 and 54, and if it is not regulated within twelve
months from the day when it is noted, very part « can, by a
request, to subject it to the decision the International Court of Justice,
unless the parts do not decide by mutual agreement to subject the disagreement
to the arbitration »57(*). Michel VIRALLY estimates for its part, that there
are great practical difficulties of application of the juice cogens,
because this one « do not constitute (...) natural right. It
evolves/moves according to the situation socio-history of the international
company and the amendments to the political, ethical, ideological designs which
are referred to it. In other words, the juice cogens standards are
standards of substantive law »58(*).
The effects of the inaccuracy of the juice cogens
standard involved, of many controversies thus for example, France did not
adopt the Convention of Vienna on the right of the treaties in opposition to
the introduction of the juice cogens. According to the French
delegate, « he is not thinkable, to admit the existence present and
to come from a supreme law and to attach effects as serious to him as to
involve the ab.initio nullity of the international agreements, without
defining the substance of this rule of substantive law, the conditions of his
development and the control of his application »59(*).
In spite of a certain ambiguity and a hesitation in the
implementation of the juice cogens standards, it should be noted that
those are of a capital range in the direction where, two characters are clean
for them : in first, the juice cogens rules are all
prohibitory ; in the second place they have a strong ethical connotation
insofar as the juice cogens tends to make higher certain values. These
characters are fundamental since they contributed without any doubt, with the
progressive acceptance of the idea that there exists in contemporary
international law of the standards which, being of imperative and
nondispositive nature, are placed above the will of the States. The evolution
in favor of the existence of juice cogens rules is certainly
irresistible, because it answers a need for the international world of
today : the promotion of the values morals, like those of solidarity and
human dignity, by making respect of certain fundamental obligations by each one
of the States, the business of all.
The concept of juice cogens invests, the judge
enonciator of social ethics, a magistrature either only technical but also
moral, « the Court judges the right, and can take account of the
moral principles only insofar as them a sufficient form were given. The right
says one, answers a social need, but it is precisely for this reason which it
cannot answer it that within the framework and inside the limits of the
disciplines that it constitutes »60(*).
The judge does not say only any more the right, because it
affirms at the same time the elementary etic requirements of the Community
life. All the ideological load contained in the right originating and derived
from the United Nations encourages it to recall their duties to the States and
one includes/understands whereas the Court inclines to take some height
compared to the official conduits, vis-a-vis the inconsistencies of the
practice of the ideologies or the competition of the interests.
The assertion of the juice cogens place indeed the
judge in the middle of a contradictory tension enters, on the one hand a
company still entirely attached to the subjectivism of sovereignties,
competitors, having spontaneously built a system of contingent standards and
dérogeables, and, on the other hand the introduction within this system
of an objective right per definition, marked by the imperativity of its social
need61(*).
The International Court of Justice, while using of the
juice standard cogens, not only limit the sovereignty of the States,
but renders also service to the international community, the Court serves the
interests of humanity : those of the Man and all the men62(*).
SECTION II : OBLIGATIONS ERGA
OMNES
The obligations erga omnes are a legal corpus of
standards which have an effect forcing and which apply with regard to all the
States. We will show initially the characteristics of the obligations erga
omnes (paragraphe1), before considering their applicability (paragraph
2).
Paragraph 1 :
Characteristics of the obligations erga omnes
The International Court of Justice marked a decisive step in
the protection of the humans right, by devoting the obligations erga
omnes. In this paragraph, we will define the obligations erga
omnes (A), before seeing their extent (B).
A- Definition
The international law always recognized the concept of
« right erga omnes », even if the expression were
seldom used. For example, the Coastal states always have a right erga
omnes to a certain width of territorial sea. All the States have a
right erga omnes to make sail in open sea of the ships beating their
house. However, these rights give rise to purely bilateral relations of
responsibility if they are violated by another State. The concept of
obligations erga omnes has distinct and broader implications.
The obligations erga omnes were devoted for the first
time in a stop of February 5, 197063(*) of the International Court of Justice. The Court in
this decision declared in substance that the obligation to respect a certain
core lasts of the humans right - of which rise in particular from the setting
out the law of the acts of aggression, the genocide, the principles and rules
concerning the basic rights of the human person, practice of slavery and racial
discrimination- corresponds to an obligation erga omnes, and which
this obligation falls in any State with respect to the international community
as a whole.
In the business of the Application of Convention on the
genocide (preliminary exceptions), the Court, after having quoted a passage of
its advisory opinion in the business of the Reserves to Convention on the
genocide, declared that « the rights and the obligations devoted in
Convention are rights and obligations erga omnes »64(*). This observation contributed
to the conclusion according to which its competence rationae temporis
concerning the request was not limited to the moment from which the parts
became dependant inter by convention.
It is necessary to acknowledg that the opposability of the
obligations erga omnes in the States beat in breach voluntarism and
the interetatism, the lawyer cannot that to note the passage to the
superetatism even if it is only implicit, empirical and fragmentary.
B- Contents and wide
The existence of the treaties producing of the effects, not
only with regard to some Non-member states, but still with regard to
« all States » is not contestable any more. Indeed, article
36 paragraphe1 of the Convention of Vienna on the right of the treaties lays
out that «a right is born for a Non-member state of a provision of a
treaty if the parts with this treaty hear, by this provision, to confer this
right is at the third State or a group of States to which it belongs, that is
to say in all the States, and if the Non-member state agrees to it. The assent
is supposed as much as it there with step of contrary indication, unless the
treaty does not have which it differently »65(*). But, it should all the same
be recognized that the International Court of Justice by devoting the existence
of the obligations erga omnes, took care to warn the States against an
extensive interpretation of this concept, it declares for example that
« on the universal level, the instruments which devote the humans
right do not recognize quality in the States to protect the victims from these
rights independently of their nationality »66(*). This means can be that the
field of the obligations erga omnes does not coincide completely with
that of the humans right, or can be acts it simply of an observation concerning
the terminology actually used in the treaties of general nature relating to the
humans right. That's no problem, that at the time when the International Court
of Justice made this statement, the interest to act with regard to the
obligations erga omnes was limited only to the level of the regional
instruments, it should be noticed is the example of the European Convention of
the humans right who authorizes each State left with Convention to carry felt
sorry for against any other State contracting, at a rate of the violation of
Convention without regard of the nationality of the victim.
Today, it is certain that each State is allowed to complain
and to ask the sanction in the event of violation of an obligation erga
omnes. Indeed, the Court in its opinion of May 28, 1951 affirms
that « in such a convention, the contracting States do not have
clean interest ; they only have and each one, a common interest, that to
preserve the higher ends which are the raison d'être of convention. It
results from it that one would not know, for a convention from this type,
speech of advantages or individual disadvantages of the States, either that of
an exact contractual balance to maintain between the rights and the
loads »67(*). In
this opinion, the request addressed to the Court on the basis of obligation
erga omnes, blames the obligations interdependent68(*) of the States. These bonds
remain however enclosed in the particular characteristics of the international
legal procedure. For this reason, the principle of assent as titrates
competence (principle of consensual jurisdiction) remains impossible to
circumvent. That was recalled in the business of Eastern Timor69(*), in which the Court refused to
rule on the bottom, whereas Portugal had taken advantage of the right to
self-determination of the local population. Although it is about an opposable
right erga omnes, the Portuguese request had obliged the Court to make
a decision on an allegedly illicit act of Indonesia which had not left to the
authority.
Paragraph 2 : The
applicability of the obligations erga omnes
With regard to the applicability of the obligations erga
omnes, we will consider initially the extent of their implementation (A),
before examining the implementation in the event of recourse to the force
(B).
A- Extent of the implementation
The International Court of Justice carries an interest
particular to applicability or the implementation of the obligations erga
omnes.
In the business relating to the Application of Convention for
the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide, the Court declares
that « being finally the territorial problems involved in the
application of Convention, the Court will note that only the relevant provision
on this subject, article VI, are satisfied to provide that the marked people of
the one of the acts prohibited by Convention will be translated in front of the
courts of competent jurisdiction of the State on the territory of which the act
was made ... (...). It results from it that the rights and obligations
devoted by Convention are rights and obligations erga omnes. The Court
notes that the obligation that in thus each State to prevent and repress the
crime of genocide is not limited territorialement for
Convention »70(*).
The extension of the applicability of the obligations erga
omnes is manifest also in the recent opinion given by the International
Court of Justice on : « Legal consequences of the
construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian
territory »71(*).
In this opinion, the Court considers that the obligations
erga omnes violated by Israel are the obligation to respect the right of
the Palestinian people to self-determination as certain obligations which are
them his under the terms of the humane international law.
That moreover, considering the importance of the rights and
obligations in question, the Court thinks that all the States are obliged not
to recognize the illicit situation rising from the construction of the wall in
the occupied Palestinian territory, including inside and on the circumference
of Jerusalem-Is. They are obliged also not to lend assistance or assistance to
the maintenance of the situation created by this construction72(*). It in addition rests on all
the States to take care, in the respect of the Charter of the United Nations,
and the international law, so that he is put an end to the obstacles, resulting
from the construction of the wall, with the exercise by the Palestinian people
of its right to self-determination. Lastly, all the States left with the
Convention of Geneva relating to protection the civil people in times of war,
of August 12, 1949, have the obligation, in the respect of the Charter of the
United Nations and the international law, to make respect by Israel the humane
international law built-in in this Convention73(*).
B- The implementation in the event
of recourse to the force
Indeed, the principle of nonthe intervention devoted in
article 2 § 4 of the Charter of the United Nations, brings into play the
right of any Sovereign state to lead its business without external
interference ; although the examples of attacks to the principle are not
rare, the Court estimates nevertheless that it forms integral part of the usual
international law. It declares that « between
independent States, the respect of territorial sovereignty is one of the
essential bases of the international reports/ratios »74(*).
The massive violation of the humans right causes initially the
revolt and requires to answer urgently. And these are only once the healed
wounds that one can consider the establishment of the political conditions
suitable to guarantee the humans right. It is this double track which the
action of the international community borrows while answering the humane
requirement initially, then with the democratic requirement. But here, it is
primarily the humane requirement which interests us.
Indeed, the International Court of Justice judged that
« the supply of a strictly humane help... could not be regarded as an
illicit intervention »75(*). On the other hand, it judged that « if the
United States can... carry their own appreciation on the situation of the
humans right to Nicaragua, the use of the force could not be the suitable
method to check and ensure the respect of the humans right »76(*).
Thus, the armed intervention, was it of humanity, in order to
carry help to the nationals of the State where the intervention takes place,
cannot be allowed in contemporary international law « whatever
deficiencies present of the international organization »77(*).
The Court in the business of the Strait of Corfou, estimates
that the alleged right of intervention can be considered only like the
demonstration of a policy of force, policy which, in the past, gave place to
the most serious abuses and which could not find any place in the international
law. The intervention east can be less acceptable still in the particular form
than it would present here, since held by the nature of the things in the most
powerful States, it could easily result in distorting the administration of
international justice itself.
Actually, any State intervening which uses of the recourse of
the force, must especially be entitled to act as this direction by a Council
Decision of safety which precisely fixes the limits and the control of their
actions. Because the massive violation of the humans right melts from now on
the competence of the Security Council under chapter VII of the Charter of the
United Nations78(*).
Thus, apart from a given conventional system, the scarcity of
the international practice does not make it possible to affirm that the common
law is definitively established with regard to the implementation of the
obligations erga omnes, nor especially that it could relate to any
type of violations.
CHAPTER II : The INTERVENTION
OF the CIJ IN FAVOR OF HUMAN
DIGNITY
The concept of human dignity indicates an ideological
evolution of the international company and its legal kind which results from
the progress of the interdependence and which is changing the international
law. « It is obvious that it is an increased conscience of the
human dignity which is with the base of the movement of proclamation and
protection of the humans right on the international level, in particular after
the horrors of the second World war. The international texts on the matter are
more explicit remainder in this respect. »79(*).
The International Court of Justice by devoting the concept of
humanity or elementary considerations of humanity, refers indeed, with the
common interests of all the men, with the universal good common and the
existence of a more interdependent international community. Rules of humanity
and reinforcement of protection on the practical level of the individuals and
the populations within the framework of the action inter official ; these
rules reveal the cardinal importance which the protection of the basic rights
must have of the human person and the rules of the humane right in the
interetatic relations, and they contribute, by doing this, to concretely
guarantee the compliance with the fundamental rules of humanity in all
circumstances.
Thus, we will consider the elementary considerations of
humanity (section 1), before examining their impact in academies measurements,
which also tighten they to protect human dignity (section 2).
SECTION I : ELEMENTARY
CONSIDERATIONS Of HUMANITY
Our will examine initially in this section, the humane
character of the legal provision (paragraph 1), before considering the range of
the concept of elementary considerations of humanity (paragraph 2).
Paragraph 1: Humane character of
the legal provision
Here, we initially will define the elementary considerations
(A), before examining their contents (B).
A- Definition and dedication
The International Court of Justice was brought to take part in
the field of the humane right just a few years after its creation, that
initially appeared with the business of the Strait of Corfou in which the Court
affirmed the existence of « certain principles general and
recognized, such as the elementary considerations of humanity, more absolutes
still in times of peace that in times of war »80(*). It deduced from it that
Albani should have made known the existence of a minefield in the Strait of
Corfou and « to inform the British warships, at the moment when they
approached, of the imminent danger to which this minefield
exposed »81(*).
The considerations of humanities are a whole of background
information which tighten with the protection of the fundamental needs human
being (life, physical integrity, to be well, etc...). These considerations are
likely to influence the interpretation and the application of international
legal provisions, for example in the right of the war like in the humane
right.
The elementary considerations of humanity thus evoked will be
it again in several other decisions of the Court, for example in the stop of
May 24, 1980 concerning the diplomatic and consular Personnel from the United
States in Teheran82(*), or
at the time of the mining of the ports of Nicaragua by the United
States83(*). In this last
business, the Court estimated that not only the behavior of the States can be
appreciated according to the basic general principles of the humane right, but
still that article 3 commun run with four Conventions of Geneva of August 12,
1949 states certain rules having to be applied in the wars not presenting an
international character. It added that these rules also constitute, in the
event of war international, a minimum independently of those more elaborate
which come to be added to it for such conflicts. It thereafter condemned the
United States to have produced and spread among the
forces « countered » a handbook of guerilla
encouraging to make contrary acts with the principles thus pointed out.
However, it sied to recognize that « the right of
The Hague is not the only one to be thus inspired by principles or elementary
habits of humanity. It shares this privilege with the right of Geneva, at least
concerning article 3 commun run with four Conventions of Geneva of August 12,
1949 »84(*). Ten
years after the stop of 1986, the Court, on the request the General meeting,
gave an opinion on July 8, 1996 on the admissibility of the use of the nuclear
weapons by a State in a war. The Court in this opinion lengthily analyzed the
applicable humane right in the event of war to conclude that the use of nuclear
weapons would be generally contrary with this right, but that in the current
state of this right, it could not decide on the assumption or the survival even
of a State would be in question.
B- Contents of the elementary
considerations
In the advisory opinion of July 8, 1996, the Court recalls
that the control of the military operations is subjected to a whole of legal
regulations limiting in particular the choice for the belligerents the means of
harming the enemy. Is proscribed in particular, the use of the weapons which
would be appropriate so that the Court does not call any more them
« basic general principles of the humane right », as in the
species 1986, but, in a similar way, « cardinal principles
contents in the texts forming fabrics of the humane right ». It
identifies these principles, this time independently of Convention VIII of The
Hague as in 1949, or article 3 commun run with four Conventions of Geneva of
1949, as in 1986, but by reference to the Declaration of Petersbourg Saint of
1868 and to the additional Payment with Convention VI of The Hague of 1907,
concerning the laws and habits of the war on ground85(*).
The Court, this time Ci, identifies « cardinal
principles » like consistent in protection of the population and the
goods of civil nature and in prohibition to cause superfluous evils with the
combatants. However, it does not leave it there. As it had done into 1986 in
connection with the four Conventions of Geneva from which it recalled that the
denunciation did not cause to draw aside the obligations under the terms of the
principles of the law of nations such as they result from the uses established
between civilized nations, of the laws of humanity and of the requirements of
the public conscience, the Court connects in 1996 them « cardinal
principles » under the clause of Martens. It is in this context
particularly emphatic that one will find
them « considerations », but this time in the
following terms : « it is undoubtedly because a great
number of rules of the humane right applicable in the wars are so fundamental
for the respect for human dignity and elementary considerations of humanity
(...) that Convention IV of The Hague and Conventions of Geneva profited from a
broad adhesion of the States »86(*).
Paragraph 2: The range of the
elementary considerations
of humanity
The elementary character of the considerations often carries
to confusion as for their hierarchisation within the standards of international
law, but a thing is sure, they have an effect erga omnes in the
direction where they apply with regard to all the States. However, acting to
know if they are dependant on juice cogens standard, the answers are
diversified according to cases'.
The Court declares that « generally, indeed,
the considerations are indeed always treated like legal sources of obligations.
They incorporate they same the general international legal provisions whose
common denominator is the obligation to respect the human dignity of the human
person, but whose concrete applications, generally defined in relation to other
general international legal provisions (principles or habits) can be
individually defined, according to the circumstances of each
species »87(*).
The elementary considerations of humanity in any case are very
generally called upon by the International Court of Justice, to indicate
imperative standards, because according to it, they are
« absolute »88(*), they are then
« minimal »89(*) and finally they are
« intransgressibles »90(*).
The considerations are in any event, of the general
international legal provisions not leaving article 38 of the Statute of the
CIJ. The judge will be able by of inspired, in particular to avoid being
vis-a-vis a situation of nonliquet which distorts it observation of a
violation of the international law will be able to generate91(*). The Court often calls upon
the considerations in order to indicate to the States concerned which they
could not escape the application from the regulations from right which are
contained there or rising directly from their application. These rules provide
to the judge the legal inspiration enabling him to underline if need be the
fundamental character of a legal provision or precise obligations which result
from this.
« Included/understood well and balanced well, the
use by the judges of « elementary considerations of
humanity » can thus constitute one of the means allowing him to
achieve as need, this work of adequacy between the ethical principles, the
rules legal which incorporate them and a concrete appreciation of the control
of the States ; without it being granted for so many the normative
capacities of which it is deprived ». 92(*)
As a whole, concept of humanity to which is built-in them
« considerations », indicates not only the solidarity and
the interdependence of the people, it adds to it also a transtemporelle
dimension, by including the generations passed, present and future. The
international community, said professor Jean Rene DUPUY, is a current concept,
humanity a concept transtemporel93(*). The recourse to the concept of humanity encourages
indeed, like suggested it Pierre Marie DUPUY, to imagine legal and
institutional formulas of positive internationalization in which will be
entrusted to a body representing the interests of humanity the capacities
necessary. Creation of the international penal courts and on all the
international penal Court is a confirmation of this positive
internationalization.
SECTION II : ACADEMIES
MEASUREMENTS AND CONSOLIDATION OF the CONSIDERATIONS Of HUMANITY
Modern justice requires that any litigation be distinct within
a reasonable time, but that is not always possible for several reasons. Thus,
like the adjective « academy » indicates it clearly,
academies measurements are intended to prevent that the rights of each part to
the disagreement are compromised throughout authority. They make it possible to
freeze the situation so that the International Court of Justice can return its
decision of court. Indeed, in certain cases of massive violations of humans
right, or in the event of frontier conflict between two States ; in the
absence of academies measurements, the situation on the ground would be likely
to be modified by an armed intervention. Then the war solves the problem and
the Court is put in front of an accomplished fact : it is with an aim of
avoiding these problems which the States ask of academies measurements or which
the Court enacts them itself, « landlord
motu ».
We will consider here, the impact of academies measurements in
the protection of the humans right (paragraphe1), before approaching their
application (paragraph 2).
Paragraph 1: Impact of academies
measurements in the protection of the
humans right
We will define initially measurements academies (A), before
examining their request for indication by the States (B).
A- Definition of academies
measurements
Academies measurements are a legal technique making it
possible to sterilize the situation between two parts and to avoid an
aggravation of the litigation. According to article 41 of its Statute, the
Court can indicate « if it estimates that the circumstances
require it, which academies measurements of the right of each one must be taken
on a purely provisional basis ». Thus in its ordinance of December
15, 1979, relating to the business of the diplomatic and consular Personnel
from the United States in Teheran, the Court considers
that : « the persistence of the situation which is the
subject of the request exposes the human beings concerned to deprivations, a
fate painful and distressing and even to dangers to their life and their health
and consequently, a serious possibility of irrevocable damage, the Court with
the need for indicating academies measurements »94(*).
To know the extent of the circumstances which can require the
indication of academies measurements by the Court, we will refer to his own
jurisprudence in the business of Competence as regards fisheries :
« considering that right for the Court to indicate academies
measurements, envisaged with article 41, of its Statute, with for object to
safeguard the rights of the parts while waiting for that the Court returns its
decision, that it presupposes that an irrevocable injury should not be caused
with the rights in litigation in front of the judge and that no initiative
relating to litigious measurements must pre-empt the judgment of the
Court »95(*).
Thus, it is necessary thus to indicate academies measurements
when the behavior of a part is likely to cause an irrevocable injury with the
rights in question, that is to say to undertake on the decision to come. It is
finally by preoccupations of humanity and a safeguard of human dignity that the
International Court of Justice indicates academies measurements. Indeed, it is
seldom that the Court remained of marble or confined in dumbness, when there is
on behalf of the belligerents to the litigation, the violations serious,
massive and repeated humans right, or in the event of war violent one.
However, the decision of the Court as regards academies
measurements « do not prejudge of anything competence Court to
know the bottom of the business and leaves intact the right of the defendant to
put forward his means to dispute this competence »96(*).
B- The demand for indication of
academies measurements
Apart from the action of the International Court of Justice,
academies measurements come from a demand for indication of the one of the
parts in litigation. Indeed, according to article 73 of the Payment of the
Court, this request can be made by one of the parts constantly of the
procedure, in writing. It relates to the business to engage before the Court.
It must indicate « the reasons on which they are based, possible
consequences of its rejection and requested measurements » (article
73 Al 2 Payment). This request is examined before any other business and can
require an emergency procedure to rule (article 86 Payment). It is the Court
which decides then (article 41 Payment). If the Court does not sit, the
President can take the ordinance necessary to face the situation. When the
Court estimates that the circumstances require it, it with the faculty of its
own chief, to indicate measurements academies landlord motu ;
even if the CPJI nor the CIJ did not use of provision 41 of the Statute of the
Court which does not oblige that this one either seized by such requests. In
practice of the Court, the regulation of academies measurements generally
intervenes at the request of the parts.
Having for object, in particular to prevent the extension or
the aggravation of the disagreement, academies measurements can be different
from those which are requested, or be even imposed on the part whose the
request emanates. The Court has a discrétionnaire capacity to prescribe
or refuse academies measurements97(*).
It is starting from the examination of the circumstances
carried to its attention that the Court decides. In the business of the
disagreement frontier (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali) the ad hoc room
had shown not only the existence from a capacity, but also from
one « to have of the room... to indicate academies measurements
contributing to ensure the good administration of justice »98(*).
Paragraph 2 : The application
of academies measurements
We will study here implementation of measurements academies
(A), before considering their range (B).
A- The implementation of academies
measurements
From the start, it should be said here that the implementation
of academies measurements by the States in conflict is not often effective.
Within the framework for example of the business of the military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua99(*), Nicaragua requires the protection of the rights
which are reached by the acts of the United States :
support « with the mercenaries » and resort direct to
the force or the threat of use of the force. Three series of rights are thus
called upon, whose holders are respectively the citizens, the State and the
people of Nicaragua :
- Civil right Nicaraguan to the life, freedom and
safety ;
- Right of Nicaragua constantly to be protected from
employment or the threat from the force on behalf of a foreign State ;
- Right of Nicaragua to sovereignty ;
- Right of Nicaragua to lead its business and to decide
questions concerned with its internal jurisdiction without interference nor
intervention of an unspecified foreign State ;
- Right of the Nicaraguan people to self-determination.
The United States as for them tried to show, without
convincing the Court, that the indication of academies measurements would be
inappropriate. Their thesis rests entirely on the idea that the conflicts in
Central America are the subject of an attempt at payment within the framework
of the process of Contadora, and thus the bilateral judicial action would be
likely to compromise the prospects for this negotiation. At all events, the
Court left itself not influenced by the American argumentation. The existence
of a risk, which is sometimes difficult to establish, concerns the obviousness
here, in this business the condition is not setting, the facts speak about
themselves. The Court estimates that the facts pled by Nicaragua are
sufficiently established for the needs for the indication of academies
measurements : among all evidence, the official declarations of the
American authorities, which are expressly mentioned, appear to have determined
the conviction of the Court.
The Court had the occasion to interpret Convention on the
genocide for the second time by two demands for indication of academies
measurements of the government of Sarajevo. The Court indicated such
measurements by ordinances of April 8 and September 13, 1993100(*). It raised in substance that
when Convention on the genocide is applicable, it is not necessary to seek if
the reproached acts were made or not during a war intern or international. It
added that the obligation that has each State to prevent and repress the crime
of genocide according to Convention is not limited territorialement, while
recalling that Convention gives competence only to the courts of the
territorial State to continue the presumed authors such crimes. It has finally
to specify that this instrument made it possible to still engage the
responsibility for a State not only on the assumption that this State would
have missed with the obligations prevention and of repression envisaged with
the text, but if it would have perpetrated itself the crime of genocide.
In the business relating to the Convention of Vienna on the
consular relations (Paraguay C. the United States of America)101(*), Paraguay asked for an
indication of academies measurements the International Court of Justice. In the
request of Paraguay, it is indicated that into 1992 the authorities of the
State of Virginia stopped a Paraguayan national, Mr. Angel Breard, who had been
shown, considered, declared guilty of genocide and had been condemned to the
capital punishment by a jurisdiction of Virginia in 1993, without to be
informed of these rights under subparagraph B of the §1 of
article 36 of Convention of Vienna102(*) ; It is specified that, among these rights,
appear the right for the interested party to ask that the qualified consular
station of the State to which it is amenable be informed of its arrest and its
detention, and its right to communicate with the known as station ; It is
also pled that the authorities of the State of Virginia do not have an advised
advantage the qualified Paraguayan consular civils servant of Mr. Breard, and
those were able to provide him an assistance only since 1996, when the
government of Paraguay A learned by its own means that Mr. Breard was
imprisoned in the United States.
The Court points out in its reasoning103(*) that the order of execution
of Mr. Breard was given for April 14 and it notes that such an execution would
make impossible the adoption of the solution required by Paraguay and would
thus carry an irrevocable damage to the rights asserted by this one. Taking
into account the above-mentioned considerations, the Court concludes that the
circumstances require that it indicate academies measurements urgently, in
accordance with article 41 of its Statute.
One year after, the Court was to rule on a request for
indication of academies measurements concerning the LaGrand brothers104(*). In this business as in the
preceding one, it is about the violation by the United States of article 36
§1, B, according to which in the event of arrest or of placement in
detention of a foreign national, the proper authorities of the State must
inform without delay the person of her right to profit from the consular
assistance of its country. Thus, hardly the ordinance of the International
Court of Justice requiring the stay of execution of Walter LaGrand
returned105(*), the
governor of the State of Arizona gave the order for the execution, in spite of
the recommendation of the Commission of graces which proposed also the
deferment. Just like in the Breard business, the ordinance of the International
Court of Justice remained dead letter. This execution carried an irrevocable
damage to Germany, damage that the indication of academies measurements by the
Court wanted to avoid.
B- The range of academies
measurements
In a general way, academies measurements have obligatory force
with same title as the judgments of the Court, but in practice, their
application appears ineffective, because the States do not lend themselves to
it goodwill106(*). If
academies measurements are temporary, they can nevertheless be renewed by a new
ordinance. They can be indicated for all the procedure and to take then fine
with it at the time of a decision of incompetence or inadmissibility (as in the
business of the nuclear Tests), or at the time of the stop at the bottom (for
example with the stop of July 25, 1974 in the business of competence as regards
Pêcheries)107(*).
The obligatory character of academies measurements often poses
problem in the direction where the CIJ does not have means of execution at its
disposal and cannot give the order of their execution. Like it indicated with
prudence in the business of the military and paramilitary activities,
« when the Court concludes that its situation requires the adoption
of measurements of this kind, it falls on each part to seriously take into
account the indications thus given and not to base its control solely on what
it believes being its rights »108(*).
SECOND PART : The EVALUATION OF the ROLE
OF the CIJ IN
MATTER OF THE HUMANS RIGHT
The assertion of the promotion and the protection of the
humans right aimed by the Charter of the United Nations and developed in the
Universal Declaration of the Humans right constituted already a value
internationalized in 1948. But since then, as Hubert THIERRY notes
it : « the development of the right relating to the humans
right was considerable and can one say exponential it is there undoubtedly one
of the major aspects and undoubtedly most remarkable of the evolution of the
international law... ». 109(*)
The International Court of Justice took part in a considerable
and effective way in the development of the promotion and the protection of the
humans right. Thus, during many decisions, it had the occasion to recall that
the respect of the humans right is an international obligation which engages
all the States.
The international judge indeed, occupies an important place in
the technical construction of the protection of the humans right ; it is
enough to mention known the goods examples of the Court of Strasbourg or the
Court inter American of the humans right. Their jurisprudence based on the
conventional instruments, does not constitute only one irreplaceable element,
but it contributes in a way increasingly major and sophisticated to protection
of the humans right.
Within the specific framework of the interventions of the CIJ
as regards the humans right, several appreciations can be made as for the
incidence of these interventions on the States and the organizations and
international institutions. This is why in this second part of our work, our
attention will be focused on the appreciation of the impacts of the
interventions of the CIJ. Thus, we will appreciate initially the contribution
of the CIJ as regards the humans right to the level of the States, the
international organizations and the international penal jurisdictions (chapter
1), then on the contribution of these interventions to international
pacification and the emergence of the new fields of right (chapter 2).
CHAPTER I : A CONTRIBUTION
LIMITEE BY THE INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES
The decisive contribution as regards the humans right of the
interventions of the International Court of Justice appears as decreased by the
practice of the States and the international Organizations. Indeed, if these
entities are the privileged places of the application and the taking into
account of the decisions of the Court, they are on the other hand not exemplary
as for the implementation of the decisions of court. It is from this point
of view that we consider initially the practice of the States and the
international Organizations (section 1), then that for the international penal
jurisdictions (section 2).
SECTION I : PRACTICE OF THE
STATES AND THE ORGANIZATIONS
INTERNATIONAL
The States and the international organizations are not only
the first receptacles of the decisions of the International Court of Justice,
but they are also the first which have the duty to put these decisions into
practice. Within the framework of this analysis, we will
examine initially the practice of the States (paragraph 1), before leaning on
that of the international organizations (paragraphe2).
Paragraph 1 : Practice of the
States
We will see here that the practice of the States is not only
refractory with the implementation of the decisions of the CIJ (A), but which
it is then contrary out of conventional matter (B).
A- A refractory practice with the
implementation of the decisions of the CIJ
It is necessary to acknowledg that the contribution of the
International Court of Justice as regards the humans right is really limited as
for its setting in execution by the States. Indeed, far from behaving like
« children of heart », the States are rather reticent with
the execution of the decisions of the CIJ.
At July 31, 1999, 62 States only (that is to say less than
one third of the Member States of UNO) had made the statement of acceptance of
the obligatory competence of the Court under the terms of article 36, §2
of the Statute,110(*) and in more these declarations are matched for
certain reserves of very broad range sometimes. 111(*) So several States in
litigation often do without the decisions of the Court. The business of the
diplomatic and consular Personnel from the United States in Teheran undoubtedly
represents one of the precedents emblématiques in this respect. Indeed,
in addition to the importance owing to the fact that the parts had a common
vision of different so that the Court can fulfill its role in an effective way,
the business of « hostages » clarifies the limits of the
effectiveness of the recourse to international justice in the situations where
the judges have to at least know only one shutter of the disagreement conceived
like broader by one of the parts112(*).
In the species, one knows indeed whom the decision of the
Court for important that it was on the plan of the principles, at all did not
cause to put an end to the crisis « hostages », nor more
largely, with that of the American relations irano. The overall arrangement of
this litigation occurred only later on, following a process to which the Court
is remained entirely foreign113(*).
The inexecution of pronounced Court on the bottom of the
litigation also appeared in the business of Nicaragua. In the species, the
refusal of the United States to take part in the phase of the procedure devoted
to the bottom of the business was accompanied by a complete rejection of the
decision at the bottom, returned by the Court in 1986114(*). As a whole, the reserve and
the refusal of the States as for the implementation of the decisions of the
CIJ, enable us to include/understand the limits of the action of Court. Indeed,
although it is equipped with a universal competence, the Court once more does
not have any dissuasive means which can oblige a State to put in execution its
jurisprudence, Ainsi, the principle of the sovereignty of the States takes
precedence over the international law.
B- A contrary conventional matter
Practice
The traditional doctrines of the absolute sovereignty of the
States always called upon the concept of « reserved field of the
States » in order to prevent the development of new rules or even the
discussion of a question, a problem, a situation, by an unspecified
international body. But it should be said that on the whole, the assent of the
States constitutes the initial and ultimate base of any international legal
provision. If there is no progressive development of the international law.
In was the business of the decrees of nationality in Tunisia
and in Morocco, the permanent Court of international justice seized by the
Council of the SDN in order to know if the disagreement between France and the
United Kingdom about the decrees of nationalities promulgated in Tunis and in
Morocco (French zone) on November 8, 1921, and of their application to the
British nationals, is or is not, according to the international law, a business
exclusively of an interior nature? (Article 15, paragraph 8 of the pact). The
permanent Court already answered in 1923, that « the question of
knowing if a certain matter returns or does not return in the exclusive field
of a State is a primarily relative question, it depends on the development of
the international relations »115(*).
On the one hand, it added rightly that « besides to
draw aside the exclusive competence of a State does not prejudge at all the
final decision on the right which this State would have to take measurements in
question »116(*). It is there the primarily evolutionary character of
the notion of the reserved field.
Thus, at the time when a question forms part, even partially,
of an international regulation, it is impossible for the State, having accepted
this regulation, to regard it as still forming integral part of its reserved
field.
Generally with regard to the decisions returned by the
International Court of Justice on the aspects touching with the humans right,
it is necessary to notice a certain voluntarism on behalf of the States in
conflict, with the implementation and the execution of these
decisions117(*). This
report is worth with the first chief for the businesses introduced by
compromise. Logically, the States which are intended to submit in question the
result reached for the Court. That is justified even in the Head of the State
for which the decision would be entirely unfavourable118(*).
The increasing use by the States of incidental procedures in
front of the CIJ also carries testimony of the current success of the Court at
the States. Thus, the latter frequently presented these last years of the
demands for indication of academies measurements, in spite of the uncertainties
attached to the legal effect of these last119(*)
With regard to the implementation, it should be said that the
recognition of the international obligation to respect the humans right is
founded on a general principle of usual nature, and its effect erga
omnes the place under the collective guarantee of the other States and the
international community as a whole. The International Court of Justice in its
stop of June 27, 1986 notes that : « the inexistence of an
engagement (on the matter) does not mean that State can violate the humans
right with impunity »120(*). In this way, the Court tends to confirm the
existence of a general international obligation to respect the humans right
whose base is consequently usual. This design was systematized by the Institute
of International law in its resolution of September 13, 1989, in Saint-Jacob de
Compostelle121(*).
Such an obligation relates to the whole of the humans right of
usual or conventional origin, by taking as starting point article 55 of the
Charter of the United Nations. Applying as well the abroads as with the
nationals, it limits sovereignty by drawing aside, of this chief, in the event
of violation, any exception resulting from the sacro-saint principle of
non-intervention in the interior businesses, as we saw higher.
Thus, the State which violates a conventional obligation,
engages its international responsibility with regard to any injured State and
one cannot claim any more that this field comes under its national
responsibility primarily. To take again the terminology of the Commission of
the international law, « done everything internationally illicit,
ascribable in a State engages its international
responsibility »122(*). There are obvious examples of violation of the
conventional obligations, it is the case of the United States which does not
cease violating article 36 §1, B, of the Convention of Vienna on the
consular relations of April 24, 1993123(*), according to which in the event of arrest or of
placement in detention of a foreign national, the proper authorities of the
State must inform without delay the person of her right to profit from the
consular assistance of its country. In a general way, and for the serious and
generalized violations, the international practice tends to admit the
possibility of « against measurement » in order to make
respect essential standards. A State or a group of States can consequently
react vis-a-vis a serious violation by taking the constraining measurements
adapted on the diplomatic or economic level.
Paragraph 2: Timid practice of
the international organizations
The international organizations are important actors for the
emergence and the development of the promotion of the humans right. But their
role remains still timid. For better illustrating our remarks, we will consider
initially the possibility of the sasine of the CIJ (A), then the emergence of
the role of these organizations (B).
A- International organizations and
the sasine of the CIJ
An international organization is one « association
of States consisted treaty, equipped with a common constitution and bodies, and
having a legal personality distinct from that of the Member
States »124(*).
This definition could appear too much
« doctrinal » and too reducing of the differences noted in
practice international to reflect concrete reality. Catch literally in a
reasoning a contrario it would oblige can be to draw aside from the
category of the organizations, those of them which do not profit from the whole
of the criteria retained in the definition125(*).
In addition, all the international organizations are charged
to collect near the Member States or to directly obtain information in the
field of their competence. The development of the statistics, the
reports/ratios and preliminary studies constitutes an essential task which is
in particular used to support the normative and operational activities.
With regard to the practice of the international organizations
as for the implementation of the decisions returned by the International Court
of Justice, it would be important to make a classification between the
specialized organizations of the United Nations and the other international
institutions.
With the difference of the other international organizations,
those of the system of UNO have the possibility of requiring an advisory
opinion at the CIJ. Indeed, it is chapter IV of the Charter of the United
Nations which has the consultation procedure in front of the CIJ. This
procedure is open only to the international organizations. Article 96 §2
provides that apart from the General meeting and of the Security Council, can
also ask an opinion the CIJ, any body of UNO and any specialized agency which
would have been authorized there by the General meeting. This authorization was
rather liberally granted, except notable for the Secretary-general of UNO.
Therefore, the World Health Organization asked the Court,
September 3 1993126(*)
to give an advisory opinion on the following
question : « taking into account the effects of the nuclear
weapons on health and the environment, their use by a State during a war or of
another war would constitute it a violation of its obligations taking into
consideration international law, including the constitution of
WHO ? » On January 6, 1995127(*), it is the General meeting of the United Nations
which pressed the Court of saying « as soon as possible »
if it is « allowed in international law to resort to the threat or
the use of nuclear weapons in any circumstance ». After a long
reflection, July 8, 1996, the Court will give two advisory opinions : one
rejects the request of WHO and the other provided an answer on the question of
the General meeting. The request of WHO was rejected because the Court
estimates that « whatever is the effects of the use of the nuclear
weapons on health, the competence of WHO to treat some is not dependant on the
admissibility of the acts which produce them »128(*). Admittedly that WHO is
qualified as regards co-operation for the improvement and the protection of the
health of all the people129(*). What is essential for us here, it is not as well
the decision of the Court, but especially the possibility as with a body of the
system of the United Nations to request an advisory opinion at the Court.
Indeed, it is necessary to say that all the bodies of the United Nations
practically work in synergy, in order to lead to a good coordination and a good
implementation of the decisions taken by the Security Council, by the CIJ by
the other jurisdictions of the system.
But it would be very interesting to undertake this time Ci a
study on the practice of the institutions and organizations nongovernmental not
belonging to the system of the United Nations.
B- The emergence of the role of the
international organizations
We will begin this part while speaking about an organization
not like the others, namely the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC). Indeed, the ICRC is a neutral, impartial and independent organization.
By its nature and its composition, the ICRC is a nongovernmental organization.
Its mandate, which is to protect and to assist the victims of the wars was
conferred to him by the States, through four Conventions of Geneva of 1949 and
their additional protocols of 1977. Such an amount of its mandate that its
legal statute confer a character particular to the ICRC, which dissociates at
the same time intergovernmental agencies, such as the institutions of the
United Nations, and other nongovernmental organizations. Indeed, the ICRC was
seen recognizing the statute of observer- reserved in theory for the
intergovernmental organizations and the States non-member- by the General
meeting130(*). This
statute extended to the international Federation of the companies of the Red
Cross and the Red Crescent131(*). In the majority of the countries where it works,
the ICRC concluded an agreement from seat with the authorities. These
agreements which raise of the international law, grant the ICRC the privileges
and immunities from which profit normally the intergovernmental organizations
(immunities of jurisdiction, in particular, which protects it from the
procedures administrative and legal, and inviolability of its buildings, files
and other documents).
The ignorance of the right being the enemy of his application,
the ICRC recalls to the States that they were committed making known some the
contents. It is also given the responsability to diffuse it itself. It still
points out that they must take all measurements necessary to ensure its
effective application, therefore its respect to them. It does it in particular
by its advisory services, of which the goal is to provide a technical aid to
the authorities for the adoption of the laws and national payments of
application of this right in the internal order.
However, it sied to recognize that the ICRC, is engaged more
on the humane action, and does not have coercive means. Apart from the case of
the ICRC, there are several other NonGovernmental Organizations (ONG) activists
and militant of the humans right, which become today of true partners of the
public action, cooperate permanemment with the institution, and with the
effective relay of mass media attracted by the glare of information, they exert
a sufficient pressure on the legal mechanism.
One raised in a recent past the presence of ONG in connection
with the problems of the environment, mines anti personnel and even in the
legal context of the Opinion on the admissibility of the threat or the use of
nuclear weapons, for which, they weighed not only on the request addressed to
the Court, but still largely held feather in the drafting of many official
talks. One knows for example that the Conference of Rome on the international
penal Court was marked by the influence of many ONG, which were true partners
of the negotiation, either directly or indirectly by investing certain
delegations by defining their position and in their providing the corresponding
argumentations, sometimes even while expressing oneself on their behalf, via
members integrated in the official representation of the State. The
generalization and the systematization of the engagement of these organizations
make to some extent these last are the third « key
character » and the international authorities which do not concern an
official logic in addition, like, in the precise case, international penal
Court132(*).
SECTION II: A POSITION CLAIRE
AS FOR THE CREATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL PENAL JURISDICTIONS
The International Court of Justice in its role of
« juice dicere » as regards humans right, largely
contributed to the creation and today to the operation of the international
penal jurisdictions. In connection with international penal jurisdictions, we
hear, the first two international penal courts create by the Security Council
of the United Nations, and the international penal Court. This is why for
determining our reflection well, we will examine initially the contribution of
the CIJ to the creation of these jurisdictions (paragraphe1), before then
seeing the operation of the international penal jurisdictions in the light of
the decisions returned by the CIJ (paragraphe2).
Paragraph 1 : The contribution to the operation of
the international penal jurisdictions
We will consider in this paragraph, the action of the
International Court of Justice in competence rationae materae of the
international penal jurisdictions, but we will take only the example of the
crime of genocide.
Indeed, article 6 of the Convention of December 9, 1948 on the
prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide had laid down the
introduction of an international criminal court which, actually, was born only
fifty years later, at the time of the Conference of Rome of June- July 1998.
During this period, only the establishment of two ad hoc penal
tribunals intervened, because of the disinterest of the States. However
cruel crimes running up against the conscience human and threatening
« peace, safety and the good being of the world »,
according to the preamble to the statute of Rome of the international penal
Court, did not disappear, far is necessary oneself some! The range of these
various stages of the international criminal law can be evaluated in the light
of the jurisprudence of the CIJ relating to Convention on the genocide.
In the business relating to the application of Convention for
the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide, the CIJ had found a
unique opportunity to reinforce its role as a principal legal body of the
United Nations133(*).
The Court will bring a precision on the practices of genocide by affirming
that « the essential characteristic of the genocide is (the
intentional destruction of a group national, ethnic, racial or religious and
not the disappearance of a State as a subject of international law or the fact
of modifying its constitution or its territory ; that, consequently, (it)
cannot admit, for purposes of this demand for indication of academies
measurements, that the partition and dismemberment or the annexation of a
Sovereign state, or its absorption by another State, could in oneself
constitute an act of genocide (...) »134(*). It recalls that it had
raised in the ordinance of April that the crime of
genocide « upset the human conscience, inflicts great losses
with humanity... and is against morals like with the spirit and purposes of the
United Nations »135(*). Lastly, it will recognize in its stop of July 1996
the existence of one « genocide of State »136(*).
In 1993 and 1994, the Security Council decided establishment
of two ad hoc penal tribunals. The atrocities made on the territory of
old Yugoslavia were condemned firmly in several Council Resolutions of safety
and by many humane international organizations. The creation of the TPIY in
1993 by resolution 808 and the adoption of its statute by resolution 827 follow
upon a French initiative. Its legal activity proves to be complementary to that
of the CIJ in ex-Yugoslavia, although their respective jurisprudences can cause
« first cracks with the unit of the right »137(*). On the same model as the
TPIY, the Security Council A creates in 1994 the TPIR by adopting resolution
955, after the recognition of massacres and the commission of a genocide in
Rwanda. By their mode of creation, their competence and their operation, the
courts are registered despite everything clearly in the same logic of
repression of the international crimes in their action with the service of
peace.
Paragraph 2 : Contrarieties of
judgments : case of the Tadic
business
The International Court of Justice strongly influenced in a
positive way as we saw higher, creation and the operation of the international
penal jurisdictions, the international penal courts on several occasions
mentioned decision returned by the CIJ. However, that did not prevent that one
observes sometimes some contradictions of interpretation of the international
standard, it would be thus interesting here to study a specific case of
divergence of interpretation between the CIJ and the TPI. The case of the Tadic
business appears suitable to us compared to the matter of our study. Thus, we
will consider initially the position of the problem (A), before analyzing the
effects of contrarieties of judgments (B).
A- The position of the problem
It is advisable to recall first of all that the Tadic business
is the first judgment given by the room of first authority of the international
penal Court for the ex Yugoslavia on May 7, 1997. In this business how much
emblematic by the history, the principles and the judgment which characterize
it, we will consider here the principal problem of right which is that of the
several liability for the violation for the rules for the humane international
law. The jurisprudence of the first room practically had been aligned on that
of the CIJ (Nicaragua C. the United States), in the species, the United States
was shown to support to maintain and to encourage the forces countered to rebel
against the government of Nicaragua by making massive violations of the humans
right. In this business, the Court estimates that the United States had not
exerted on countered in all their activities an authority such as one can
consider countered them like acting as their name, it adds that to engage the
responsibility the responsibility for the United States, it was to be
established in theory that they had the effective control of the military and
paramilitary operations during which the violations in question would have
occurred.
But the room of call of the TPIY reversed this report in its
stop of call on the bottom of 15 July 1999 and called into question the
applicability of « criterion of Nicaragua control ».
According to the room of call, it is advisable to distinguish according to
whether it is a question to allot in a State the acts of isolated individuals,
Nicaragua jurisprudence being then applicable or to allot to him the activities
of organized individuals in way such as they can be qualified bodies de facto
of this State. In this last case, the applicable criterion that of an overall
control of the organic apparatus in question, criterion filled for the Serb
ones of Bosnia, is controlled by the Yugoslav Federal Republic138(*).
B- Effects of opposed judgments
The XIXe century was the century of the development of the
right and the international arbitration. International justice was born at the
XXe century with the permanent Court from international justice, become in 1945
the International Court of Justice. The international courts since then
multiplied. This phenomenon translates a confidence increased in justice and
makes it possible the international law to grow rich in increasingly various
fields. It does not make any less run risks of race to the courts, sometimes
called « forum shopping » and of contrariety of
jurisprudence139(*). The
international jurisdictional overlappings increase moreover the risks of
contrarieties of judgments, two courts being able to be seized jointly by the
same question and to make decisions contradictory.
The systems of national laws for a long time had to face such
problems. They solved them essentially by creating authorities of call or
cassation. The international system is in this respect deprived fort. Thus, as
we saw, the penal court for ex-Yugoslavia, while ruling at the bottom of the
Tadic business, recently drew aside the jurisprudence created by the
International Court of Justice in the disagreement having opposed in front of
it Nicaragua to the United States of America.
Whatever the appreciation which one can carry on this
solution, contradiction thus raised shows the risks obviously that the unit of
the international law court because of multiplication of the jurisdictional
authorities. Judge Gilbert GUILLAUME estimates, to avoid these contradictions
that before creating a new jurisdiction, the international legislator should
wonder whether the functions which it intends to entrust to the judge could not
advantageously be filled by an existing jurisdiction. As for the magistrates
themselves, they must become aware of the danger of fragmentation of the right,
even of jurisprudential inconsistency born from the multiplication of the
courts. A dialog interjudiciaire is essential. The International Court of
Justice, legal body principal of the United Nations, is ready to get busy there
if the means are given to him. One sometimes suggested entrusting to the Court
the responsibility to know in call or cassation of the judgments given by all
the other courts. Such a solution would however imply a strong political
good-will of the States of which it is not certain that it exists. Or, would
not be advisable it to encourage the various jurisdictions to ask in certain
businesses of the advisory opinions for the Court via the Security Council or
of the General meeting ? 140(*)
CHAPTER II : A DECISIVE
CONTRIBUTION TO the PACIFICATION
OF the INTERNATIONAL COMPANY AND A the EMERGENCE OF the NEW FIELDS OF RIGHT
To maintain peace and safety international is the prime
objective assigned with the United Nations, the base even of its existence, the
imperative reason of its creation. With various recoveries, the bodies of the
United Nations adopted resolutions establishing a bond between the pleasure of
the humans right and the maintenance of peaces and safety international. One of
first was resolution 110 (II) of the General meeting of November 3, 1947, in
which the Parliament recalling that all the Member States were committed acting
as well jointly as separately to support the universal and effective respect
fundamental freedoms which include/understand in particular the freedom of
expression, to condemn « any propaganda... which is intended or
which is likely to cause or to encourage, within the framework of the
constitution, the diffusion of any information intended to express the
undeniable desire of peace and all the people.
The participation of the International Court of Justice in
this dynamics of peace is not any more to show. We will also see that beyond
international pacification (section 1), the International Court of Justice by
its jurisprudence was used as a basis for emergence of new fields of
international law such as : right to the environment and right to health
(section 2).
SECTION I : THE CIJ, JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE
The importance of international peace for the pleasure of the
humans right and of fundamental freedoms is highlighted in several businesses
of the International Court of Justice, we will thus consider in this section,
the consolidation of the right to peace (paragraph 1) and the problems of the
right of interference (paragraph 2).
Paragraph 1 : Consolidation of
the right to peace
We will consider here the role of the CIJ in the consolidation
of the right to peace (A), before noting that this role is shared with the
Security Council (B).
A- The role of the CIJ in the
consolidation of the right to peace
The obvious and massive violations of the humans right
including the economic, social and cultural rights, can involve the world in
wars, thus, the full respect of the promotion of the humans right and
fundamental freedoms requires the reign of peaces and safety international. The
concept of consolidation of peace, just as it is appears in the Diary for
peace141(*), constitutes
the conceptual base of the operations tending to the construction of the State.
To take again the terms of its author, « in the range of the
efforts of peace, the concept of consolidation of peace, as an introduction of
an environment, new, must be regarded as forming part with the preventive
diplomacy, which aims at avoiding a crisis ; the consolidation of peace
after the conflicts aims at preventing that it does not reproduce142(*).
The International Court of Justice has certainly a role-
difficult but indisputable as regards maintenance of peace, which is
unanimously allowed since the business of « military and
paramilitary activities ». Because it is « the decisive
criterion of the existence of an international legal
order »143(*),
the CIJ has a key role to play so that the anarchistic character is moderate.
It can, parallel to the political and economic instruments of the
re-establishment of peace, to make the international relations surer, to
alleviate the fatal instincts which break out at the time of a war or to
support the reconciliation in the States torn by one or more conflicts.
B- A role shared with the Security
Council
It frequently happens that the CIJ and the Security Council
are seized at the same time by the same business. Businesses of
« Diplomatic and consular personnel from the United States in
Teheran » and of « military and paramilitary activities in
Nicaragua and against this one » showed that disagreements carried
before the Court were treated under other aspects by the Council. At the time
of this second dispute opposing the United States to Nicaragua, the Court had
the occasion to specify that the Council had « political
attributions » and itself of « purely legal
functions », two bodies thus being able « to discharge
their functions distinct but complementary in connection with the same
events »144(*). Despite everything, a possible competition between
the two can appear, especially if the Court plans to exert a control of
legality of the acts of the Council. If the Court hesitated until now venturing
over this ground, the TPIY showed much more audacity in the business
« Tadic »145(*).
If the Court to the point agreed to control the legality of
the acts of the Council, it would be able to contribute in a decisive way to
the re-establishment of peace. For the moment, it did not yet really dare to
cross Rubicon, its attitude being explained by the difficulty of control and
the prudence of which it makes proof in its exercise, which weakens the range
of its contribution as regards maintenance of peace.
With the acceleration of the rate/rhythm of adoption of
resolutions by the Security Council since the conflict of the Golf, the debate
on the control of its actions takes all its direction. Its recent practice
enabled him to devote a particularly extensive design of the concept of peace.
It would thus seem logical that the CIJ can develop its role under the
maintenance of peace, thanks to a widening of the operative field of the
international bankruptcy proceedings, including a control of legality of the
acts of the Council. The place of the CIJ, « principal legal
body of the United Nations », makes an instrument completely ready of
it to take part in the system of maintenance of peace, envisaged by the
Charter. According to Professor A. Pellet, this reasoning is
essential « insofar as the objective first of the Charter is to
subject the exercise of the force by the States to an international control,
the CIJ is without any doubt, one of the possible instruments of this
control ». However, as each one knows it, the recourse to the force
remains at the time current a persistent data in the international relations.
The fact that the disagreements subjected to the CIJ relate to this use of the
force and are directly in relation to the maintenance of peace and of safety an
obstacle with the exercise of its jurisdiction does not constitute at all. The
Court for example affirmed recently in connection with the construction of the
Israeli wall in Palestine, which it is «anxious to give its support
for the goals and the principles registered in the Charter of the United
Nations, in particular the maintenance of peaces and safety international and
the peaceful payment of the disagreements, holds to underline the urgent need
that the United Nations as a whole redoubles its efforts in order to quickly
put a term at the israélo-Palestinian conflict, which continues to pose
a threat with international peaces and safety, and thus to establish a peace
fair and lasting in the area »146(*).
Paragraph 2 : The problem of
the interference
We will define initially the concept of interference (A),
before seeing on the matter the intervention of the Court (B).
A- Definition
Since the States exist, they intervene in their neighbor and,
inevitably, they endeavor to justify their failure with the principle of
non-interference by the existence of one departures from the rule whose
traditional expression would be the admissibility
of « interventions of humanity » with the profit of
their own nationals or certain categories of people sharing with them values
common and oppressed by a foreign State, or being the massive and repeated
violations humans right. But that the right says on this subject and which is
the contribution of the International Court of Justice on this
subject ?
The interference does not indicate a given legal concept, in
the literature of the international law. Under this denomination, the works
rather treat intervention, action of a State or an international organization
which aims to the examination and the solution of a business coming under the
responsibility of one or several other States. The terminological proximity is
due to the definition of the interference to the common direction. It means the
action there to be involved unduly, without in being required or having the
right of it, in the businesses of others.
Article 2 paragraph 7 of the Charter of the United Nations,
lays out on this subject that « no provision of this Charter
authorizes the United Nations to intervene in businesses which primarily come
under the national responsibility of a State nor does not oblige the members to
subject businesses of this kind to a procedure of payment under the present
Charter... «.
Therefore, the International Court of Justice in the business
of the Strait of Corfou on April 9, 1949, sanctioned the internationally
illicit act which consisted, for the United Kingdom-, to intervene in Albanian
territorial waters to proceed to a mine clearance whose object was to ensure it
a navigation without danger for the human lives. The problem of the
interference causes often conflict, but can cause also peace, all depends on
the reasons which animate the State or the organization which is involved. The
International Court of Justice contributed in a decisive way to the legal
establishment of certain legal bases which make it possible to intervene with
an aim of promoting safety, international pacification and the protection of
the humans right.
« The humans right constitute certainly a noble
reason for intervention but they raise multiple questions as those of the
methods (the end justifies the means), of the selectivity (political two-speed)
or the direction (universality reduced to the Western values) of the action.
One sees as well as the action of the international community is registered on
the plan of the procedures, in dialectical legality/legitimacy whereas, on the
plan of the values, it does not escape the suspicions to deal with certain
States while others would be resolutely in margin of the international
relations »147(*).
B- The intervention of the Court as
regards interference
The International Court of Justice intervened in a rigorous
way as regards interference, in the business of Nicaragua ; in the
species, the United States to found their intervention in Nicaragua, showed
this one to have violated engagements concerning the protection of the humans
right. But the Court declares that « in any case, if the United
States can certainly carry their own appreciation on the situation of the
humans right to Nicaragua, the use of the force could not be the suitable
method to check and ensure the respect of this right. As for measurements which
were taken in fact, the protection of the humans right, considering his
strictly humane character, is not in any way compatible with the drive, the
armament and the equipment of « countered ». The Court
concludes that the reason drawn from the safeguarding of the humans right to
Nicaragua cannot justify the control of the United States
juridically »148(*).
The interference actually does not constitute a right, and
that applies for all the subjects of international law. Within the framework of
the Security Council of the United Nations, the interference in the businesses
of a State can take place only on the basis of article 2 paragraph 7 of the
Charter, but it should be added that the action must be placed within the
framework of chapter VII, i.e. within the framework of its competences as
regards maintenance of peace. It is in this right wire that the massive
violation of the humans right melts from now on the competence of this
Council.
Thus, several coercive actions were undertaken for situations
constituting of the threats for peace, under the terms of article 39 of the
Charter.
Indeed, the principle of noninterference in the interior
businesses is not opposable any more in the event of violation of
« great scale » of the basic human rights, to take again
expressions used by many States before resolution 688 of April 5, 1991
concerning the minorities in Iraq (Kurdish, Shiites...). In fact considerations
of this kind inspire the Council Resolutions of Safety concerning the ex
Yugoslavia and Somalia. Very instructive appears to us to be resolution 929 of
22 June 1994 authorizing France (and the other countries wishing to take part
in the humane operation in Rwanda) with « to employ » all
means necessary for two months in order to protect the civil ones and to stop a
dramatic massacre. Very significant also appears to us to be the resolution
1556 (2004) authorizing a military intervention in Sudan in order to restore
peace in Darfour.
The problems of the concept of interference are also posed
within the framework of the humane assistance. The International Court of
Justice judged that « the supply of a strictly humane help...
could not be regarded as an illicit intervention »149(*). The Security Council
confirmed this jurisprudence in his resolution 733 (1992), while asking all the
parts to facilitate the routing by UNO of the humane assistance towards all
those which need some150(*). He make in the same way in
Bosnia-Herzégovine in his resolution 758 (1992) by requiring
that « all the parts and different interested immediately create
the conditions necessary to the distribution without humane obstacle of supply
in Sarajevo »151(*).
The humane assistance is however the source of regrettable
confusions (actually of the political and economic interests subjacent) because
of the practice as well of the States as of the international
organizations152(*).
SECTION II : CONTRIBUTION A
the EMERGENCE OF NEW
FIELDS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
The international law is a matter which is in perpetual
evolution because of its effectivity, but especially of the topicality of which
it is the object. The daily practice of the international law allowed the
emergence of the new fields of international law to know the right of the
environment (paragraphe1) and that of health (paragraphe2). The International
Court of Justice by its jurisprudence deeply consolidated the emergence of
these fields.
Paragraph 1 : Consolidation of
the right to the environment
We will see initially the dedication of the international law
of the environment (A), before examining the intervention of the environmental
matter CIJ (B).
A- Dedication of the international
law of the environment
The international law of the environment is the whole of the
international rules and interns aiming at the environmental protection. The
environmental protection is, it should be raised a rather recent concern.
Indeed while passing by STOCHKOLM in 1972, RIO in 1992, and many other
conventions even more recent, the international community is worried more and
more by the safeguarding of the environment. From where the interest to found
international institutions as well intern as external, to work out mechanisms
of very serious protection to preserve fauna, the flora, the surface, water,
the ground, and the basement and all the ecosystems existing.
In order to reinforce the environmental protection, the
International Court of Justice in the opinion on the nuclear weapons
established the existence of a right of the usual environment, which
constitutes a capital fact : « the general obligation which
have the States to take care that the activities carried on within the limits
of their jurisdiction or under their control respect the environment in other
States or in zones concerned with no national jurisdiction now forms part of
the body of rules of the international law of the
environment »153(*). The Court adds that them « States must
take account of the ecological considerations today when they decide what
necessary is proportioned in the continuation of legitimate military
objectives »154(*).
The Court then developed a very evolutionary reasoning tending
with the protection of the right to the environment in the Gabcikovo-Nagimaros
business of which the judgment was handed down on September 25, 1997. The
essential problem that this stop presents is that to determine if a country
can, by calling upon reasons for environmental protection, to withdraw itself
from the effect of a treaty.
B- The intervention of the
environmental matter CIJ
The Court indeed, makes a point of raising that new standards
of the right of the environment, recently appeared are relevant for the
execution of the treaty binding the parts to the litigation. These standards
impose on the parts, by discharging their obligations to take care that the
quality of water of the Danube is not compromised so that the nature
conservancy is assured. The Court estimates that while inserting in the treaty
these evolutionary provisions, the parts recognized the need for possibly
adapting the project.
Consequently, the treaty is not a fixed instrument and is
likely to adapt to new standards of the international law of the environment.
The conscience that the environment is vulnerable and recognition of what it is
continuously necessary to evaluate the ecological risks continued more and more
in the years which followed the conclusion of the treaty. Recognition that the
parts agree on the need for worrying seriously about the environment and to
take measurements which are essential.
With regard to the legal consequences of the stop, the Court
does not lose sight of the fact that, in the field of the vigilance,
environmental protection and prevention impose themselves because of the often
irresistible character of the damage caused on the environment and the limits
inherent in the mechanism even of repair of this type of damage. New standards
and requirements were developed, which were stated in a great number of
instruments during two last decades, it acts of the principle pollutant payer
of the principle of prevention, the principle of precaution or that of
participation.
The Court estimates that these new standards must be taken in
suitably appreciated consideration and these new requirements, not only when
the States consider new activities, but also when they engaged in the past. For
purposes of this species, that means that the parts would have together, to
again examine the effects on the environment of the exploitation of the power
station of Gabcikovo. In particular, they must find a solution satisfactory
with regard to the volume of water to be poured in the bed of the Danube and
the arms located on both sides of the river.
The individual opinion of Weeramantry judge is very relevant
as for the emergence of the right of the environment. Indeed, this one tackles
in its opinion three questions relating to certain aspects of the right of the
environment: the principle of the development which reconciles the rival
requirements of the development and the environmental protection, and
advisability of being useful itself of an applicable legal principle inter
partes as the estoppel to solve problems which present a
character erga omnes, like the damage caused with the environment.
Paragraph 2 : Consolidation of
the right to health
We will examine initially the recognition of the right to
health (A), before seeing the contribution of CIJ on the matter (B).
A- Recognition of the right to
health
The recognition of the right of all human being to the best
health than it is able to reach within the framework of the international law
relating to the humans right implies a series of social installations-
standards, institutions, laws, favorable environment- which as well as possible
allow the pleasure of this right. The best interpretation of the right to
health is in article 12 of the international Pact relating to the economic,
social and cultural rights which, in May 2002 had been ratified by 145
countries. This article lays out that :
« 1 - the States left with the present Pact
recognize the right which has any person to enjoy the best physical and mental
health that it is able to reach.
2- Measurements that the States left with the present Pact
will take in order to ensure the full exercise of this right will have to
include/understand measurements necessary to ensure :
a) reduction in the infantile still birth, as well as the
healthy development of the child ;
b) improvement of all the aspects of the hygiene of the medium
and the occupational hygiene ;
c) the disease prevention and treatment of the epidemic,
professional and different diseases, as well as the fight against these
diseases ;
d) the creation of conditions suitable to ensure all of the
medical departments and medical aids in the event of request.
The right to health was evoked for the first time in the
constitution of WHO (1946) and was reaffirmed in the Declaration of Alma ATA of
1978 and in the world Declaration on the health adopted by the world Parliament
on health in 1998. The right to health was devoted with force in a great number
of international and regional instruments of the human rights. The
International Court of Justice for its part did not remain in margin of this
dedication, and it tends today by its jurisprudence to consolidate this
emergent right. We will be based primarily on the opinion of July 8, 1996 on
the nuclear weapons to show the implication of the Court in the evolution of
the right to health.
B- The contribution of the CIJ as
regards health
It is first of all advisable to recall that on July 8, 1996,
the Court had returned two decisions ; the first related to the refusal to
answer at the request of opinion of the World Health Organization (WHO), the
second answered at the request of opinion of the General meeting. The Court in
fact had refused to answer at the request of WHO because it had estimated that
its question did not relate to legal problems arising within the framework of
the activity of this organization, as article 96 required it, paragraph 2, of
the Charter of the United Nations155(*), even if WHO dealt with the nuclear weapons since
1983.
Indeed, the use of the nuclear weapons carries reached as well
to the physical integrity of the human beings as to the territorial integrity
of the Non-member states. That can be explained by radiations, the
electromagnetic impulse and the radioactive dusts which do not know borders.
Among the hostile arguments with the admissibility of the use of the nuclear
weapons, the Court drew aside those based on prohibition to use chemical or
poisoned weapons156(*).
The Court notes indeed that the convention of 13 January 1993 prohibiting the
chemical weapons was negotiated and adopted « in a clean context and
for clean reasons »157(*). It recalls that during negotiations, which preceded
the adoption by this instrument, it forever be question of nuclear weapons. It
would be thus abusive to seek there the source of a prohibition of the threat
or use of the nuclear weapons. This reasoning is correct, because it reflects
reality. On the other hand, one is more skeptic when the Court says that
article 23 has/Payment of The Hague of 1907 (which prohibits the use of the
poisoned weapons) and the protocol of Geneva of 1925 (which prohibits the use
of the nuclear weapons).
Because these texts do not define what it is necessary to
understand by « poisoned weapons » and by
« similar matters or processes » (protocol of
1925)158(*), how can -
it then to forget that this radiation, which is specific to the only nuclear
weapons159(*), affects
only the living matter, which is diffusion even chemical weapons ?
However, the effects of the nuclear weapon which rise from the initial and
induced radioactivity are similar to those of the poison, like that was
recognized by the scientific circles and the States themselves, when they
defined the nuclear weapon as being « any weapon which contains, or
is designed to contain or use a nuclear fuel or radioactive isotopes and which,
by not controlled explosion or other nuclear transformations or by
radioactivity of nuclear fuel or the radioactive isotopes, is capable of
massive destruction, generalized damage or poisoning solid
masses »160(*). In other words, even if the effects first of the
nuclear weapon are effects of breath and heat, it does not produce of them less
subsequent effects of poisoning ; it is thus prohibited under the terms of
article 23 has/Payment of The Hague as well as an arrow or a poisoned ball, of
which the effect first is to however wound the body of the victim, does not
deliver of it less poison which makes it fall under the blow from
prohibition.
In a general way, it should be recognized that in this
business, the Court shone by several gaps of interpretation of the
International Conventions. But if in the field of the application of the
treaties, the decision of the Court were characterized by one
nonliquet, that was not the case on the plan of the principles.
The Court declares that « it is thus interdict
to use weapons causing them such evils or unnecessarily worsening their
sufferings higher than the inevitable evils than the achievement of legitimate
military objectives supposes »161(*). The majority of the judges do not have fears to be
less circumspect, and formulated a general evaluation. Thus, Fleischhauer judge
declares that of such « incommensurable sufferings »
return to « negation of the humane considerations which inspire the
duty applicable to armed »162(*). President Bedjaoui affirms that these
weapons « cause (...) useless sufferings »163(*) and Herczegh judges it
estimates that the fundamental principles of the humane right prohibit the use
of the nuclear weapons164(*). Koroma judge, after having described the effects of
the atomic weapons in Hiroshima, in Nagasaki and in the Marshall Islands,
declares that since the radioactive effects are worse than those of pollutant
gases, « the observations which precede should necessarily have
led the Court to conclude that any use of nuclear weapons is illicit in
international law »165(*). Weeramantry judge is even firmer :
« facts (...) are more than sufficient to establish that the nuclear
weapon causes superfluous evils exceeding of much what the goals of the war
require »166(*).
Ultimately, the contribution of the Court as regards health
much proved on the plan of the principles proclaimed than on the decisions
taken.
GENERAL
CONCLUSION
In the light of what precedes, the International Court of
Justice as a principal legal body of the United Nations, plays a considerable
part in the protection of the humans right, its role is also dominating with
the pacification of the international company and the emergence of the new
fields of international law.
No matter what this role as regards protection of the humans
right is only incidental, it is appropriate to recognize that in this dynamics,
the place of the Court is a place of choice, this is why one has the right to
wonder whether it is not possible, allocate to him a particular responsibility
as regards the humans right to avoid contrarieties of judgments between it
and the other judicial bodies of the humans right, like international penal
Courts or of the committees of humans right.
Indeed, it would be a pity for the evolution of the protection
of the humans right, whom one witnesses contrarieties of judgments between
these various jurisdictions, like that was the case between the stop of the CIJ
on « Nicaragua », and that of the TPIY on
« Tadic ». Judge Gilbert GUILLAUME estimates for that
« that no new international jurisdiction must be created without
wondering beforehand about the question of knowing if the functions that the
international legislator intends to entrust to them could not advantageously be
filled by an existing jurisdiction. The international judges must become aware
of the dangers of fragmentation of the right and get busy to avoid them. But
such efforts are likely to be insufficient and the International Court of
Justice, only judicial body with universal and general competence, has a role
to play in this field. In order to maintain the unit of the right, the various
existing jurisdictions or to create could, seems to me it, being authorized,
even encouraged to require in certain businesses of the advisory opinions of
the Court via the Security Council or of the General
meeting »167(*). Thus, it would not be possible to allot to the
Court a vocation universal jurisdiction as regards the humans right ?
With this question, the reflections must be carried out on two
angles :
- Initially in the light of the business of the military and
paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this one ;
- Then in the light of the Yerodia business of February 14,
2002.
With regard to the first business, the CIJ contributed in a
very significant way to the evolution of the protection of the humans right by
devoting several principles to humane character, and for this reason, it can be
devoted well like a universal jurisdiction of the humans right. On the other
hand, with regard to the second stop, the Court allowed itself to say the right
while basing itself on what at all does not represent the right to know :
« comity of nations », no matter what this stop is stop of
principle, it is really not an example for a jurisdiction which wants to be
« universal » as regards the humans right.
Being at the end of our study it falls to us to check our
assumptions. Therefore, we note that our assumptions are checked indeed, in the
direction where the Court plays indeed a part determining as regards protection
of the humans right, this role is solidified by the various standards which it
worked out and finally this role has a remarkable incidence in the pacification
of the international company and the emergence of the new fields of
international law namely the right to the environment and the right to
health.
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military intervention on an implicit authorization of the Security
Council », RGDIP, Volume 104, 2004, pp. 873 - 909.
· CORTEN O. and KLEIN P.,
« Effectiveness of international justice taking into consideration
manifest and latent function of the recourse to the International Court of
Justice », International Justice and jurisdictions, Paris,
PEDONE, 2000, pp. 33 - 71.
· CORTEN O. and KLEIN
P., « Humane assistance vis-a-vis the sovereignty of
the States », RTDH, n°4, 1992, pp. 344-364.
· DOPAGNE F., « The
responsibility for the State because of the private individuals : causes
of charge revisited by the articles on the responsibility for the State for
internationally illicit fact », RBDI, 2001, pp. 492 - 525.
· DOSWALD-BECK L. and QUICKLY S.,
« Humane international law and right of the humans right »,
RIRC n°800, pp99-128.
· DUPUY TOKEN ENTRY. ;
« The judge and the general rule », RGDIP, Volume 93, pp.
570-598.
· DUPUY TOKEN ENTRY,
« Elementary considerations of humanity in the jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice », Mixtures in the honor of Nicolas
VALTICOS, Right and justice, Paris, A. PEDONE, 1999, pp. 117-130.
· DUPUY TOKEN ENTRY, « Penal
international standards and imperative right (juice cogens) »,
International criminal Law, Paris, CEDIN, 2000, pp. 71-80.
· GUILLAUME G., « France and
the International Court of Justice », Studies offered to Alain
PLANTEY, internality in the institutions and right. Convergences and
challenges, Paris PEDONE, 1995, pp. 119-126.
· KAMTO Mr., « A disconcerting
total immunity of the Foreign Minister, RBDI, 1-2, 2002, pp. 518-530.
· KATZ C., « For the
proclamation by the international community of an intangible core of the humans
right », RTDH, n° 28, 1996, pp. 541-553.
· MILLET A.S., « Advisory
opinions of the International Court of Justice of July 8, 1996 »,
RGDIP, Tome101, pp. 141-175.
· OLINGA A.D., « Concept of
dignity in international law of the humans right, principle of unification or
pretext with handling ? », Book of the UCAC n°1, human
Dignity in Africa, PUCAC 1996, pp. 233-245.
· PELLET A., « The Council
before the International Court of Justice, Mixtures offered to Hubert THIERRY,
evolution of the international law, Paris, PEDONE, pp. 345-362.
· RUCZ C., « The indication of
academies measurements by the International Court of Justice in the business of
the military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this
one », RGDIP, Volume 89, 1985, pp. 83-111.
· SALERNO F., « Counterclaim
in the procedure of the International Court of Justice », RGDIP,
Volume 103, 1999, pp. 329-378.
· SALMON J., « The
problem of the gaps in the light of nuclear weapons returned on July 8, 1996 by
the International Court of Justice », Mixtures in the honor of
Nicolas VALTICOS, Right and Paris justice, PEDONE, pp. 197-232.
· ON S., « Some
observations on the international legal standards », RGDIP, Volume
100, pp. 915-949.
· TAVERNIER P., « UNO and the
assertion of the universality of the humans right », RDTH, n°
31, 1997, pp. 379-393.
· WELLENS K., « The
International Court of Justice and humans right », Faculty of
Nimègue Poitiers, Conference, incidences of international
jurisprudences on the Dutch and French rights in particular on the humans
right, Paris, PUF, 1992, pp. 41-82.
III international Texts
· Universal declaration of the Humans right of December
10, 1948.
· International pact relating to the civil laws and
political of December 16, 1966.
· International pact relating to the economic, social and
cultural rights of December 16, 1966.
· Convention for the prevention and the repression of the
crime of genocide of December 9, 1948.
· Declaration of the Conference of the United Nations on
the environment, Stockholm of June 16, 1972.
· Declaration of Rio on the environment and the
development of June 13, 1992.
IV Reviews and other documents
· GUILLAUME G., « The
International Court of Justice and humans right », Seminar of the
Foundation Asia Europe in Denpasar (Indonesia).
· International review of the Red- Cross, special
number : « The advisory opinion of the International Court of
Justice concerning the admissibility of the nuclear weapon and the humane
international law », n° 823, January-February 1997, 128p. 800,
pp. 99-128.
V-
Jurisprudences of the International Court of Justice
A-
Advisory opinions
· Reserves with Convention for the prevention and the
repression of the crime of genocide of December 9, 1948, opinion of May 28,
1951, Collection, 1951.
· Legal consequences for the States of the presence
continues of South Africa in Namibia, advisory opinion of June 21, 1971,
Recueil, 1971.
· Admissibility of the threat or the use of the nuclear
weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996, Collection, 1996.
· Camaraswamy (different relating to immunity from
jurisdiction of a special rapporteur of the Commission of the humans right),
advisory opinion of April 29, 1999, Collection, 1999.
· Legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the
occupied Palestinian territory, advisory opinion of July 9, 2004, Collection,
2004.
B-
Stops
· Business of the Strait of Corfou, stop of April 9,
1949, Collection, 1949.
· Business of the African Western south (Ethiopia against
South Africa ; Liberia counters South Africa), stop of July 18, 1966,
Recueil, 1966.
· Business of Barcelona traction light and power,
limited, stop of February 5, 1970, Collection, 1970.
· Business of the diplomatic and consular Personnel from
the United States in Teheran (the United States of America against Iran),
academies measurements, ordinance of December 15, 1979, Collection, 1979.
· Business of the diplomatic and consular Personnel from
the United States in Teheran, stop of May 24, 1980, Recueil, 1980.
· Business of the military and paramilitary activities in
Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua against the United States), ordinance
in academies measurements of January 10, 1986, Collection, 1986.
· Business of the military and paramilitary activities in
Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua against the United States), stop of
June 27, 1986, Collection, 1986.
· Guinea-Bissau counters Senegal, stop of November 12,
1991, Recueil, 1991.
· Application of Convention for the prevention and the
repression of the crime of genocide, schedules in academies measurements of
April 8, 1993, Recueil, 1993.
· Business of Eastern Timor (Portugal against Australia),
stop of June 30, 1996, Collection, 1996.
· Application of Convention for the prevention and the
repression of the crime of genocide (Bosnia-Herzégovine against
Yugoslavia), preliminary exceptions of July 11, 1996, Collection, 1996.
· Business of the Project Gabcikovo Nagimaros
(Hungary/Slovakia), stop of September 25, 1997, Collection, 1997.
· Business relating to the Convention of Vienna on the
consular relations (Paraguay against the United States of America), ordinance
in academies measurements of April 9, 1998, Collection, 1998.
· Business Walter LaGrand (Germany counters the United
States of America), demand for indication of academies measurements of March 3,
1999, Recueil, 1999.
· Business relating to certain committed penal procedures
in France (Republic of Congo against France), demand for indication of
academies measurements, June 17, 2003, Collection, 2003.
Business relating to the warrant for arrest of April 11, 2000
(DRC against Belgium), stop of February 14, 2002, Recueil, 2002.
CONTENTS
DEDICATE
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I
THANKS
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II
SYNOPSIS
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III
INITIALS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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SUMMARY
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v
ABSTRACT
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VI
SYNOPSIS
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vii
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1
I- TALLY OF THE STUDY
7
A- INTEREST OF THE STUDY
8
1- Social interest
8
2- Scientific interest
9
B- PROLEMATIQUE AND ASSUMPTIONS
10
1- Problems
10
2- Assumptions
11
has - Principal assumption
11
b- Secondary assumptions
11
II THE CONTROL OF THE STUDY
12
A- THE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
12
B- METHODOLOGY
15
1- Method of analysis
15
2- Techniques of investigation
16
C- JUSTIFICATION OF THE PLAN
18
FIRST PART : THE ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COURT OF JUSTICE AS REGARDS THE HUMANS RIGHT
19
CHAPTER I : THE INTERVENTION OF THE CIJ AND
20
DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMPERATIVE STANDARDS
20
SECTION I : DEVELOPMENT OF the JUICE COGENS
STANDARDS
20
Paragraph 1 : Contents of the juice cogens
standard
20
A- Dedication and contents of the juice cogens
standard
20
Paragraph 2: The CIJ and the implementation of the
juice cogens standard
23
A- The implementation of the juice cogens standard
by the CIJ
23
B- Hesitant practice of the juice cogens
standard
26
SECTION II : OBLIGATIONS ERGA OMNES
29
Paragraph 1 : Characteristics of the
obligations erga omnes
29
A- Definition
30
B- Contents and wide
31
Paragraph 2 : The applicability of the
obligations erga omnes
33
A- Extent of the implementation
33
B- The implementation in the event of recourse to
the force
34
CHAPTER II : THE INTERVENTION OF THE CIJ IN
FAVOR OF HUMAN DIGNITY
36
SECTION I : ELEMENTARY CONSIDERATIONS Of
HUMANITY
37
Paragraph 1: Humane character of the legal
provision
37
A- Definition and dedication
37
B- Contents of the elementary considerations
39
Paragraph 2: The range of the elementary
considerations of humanity
40
SECTION II : ACADEMIES MEASUREMENTS AND
CONSOLIDATION OF THE CONSIDERATIONS OF HUMANITY
42
Paragraph 1: Impact of academies measurements in the
protection of the humans right
42
A- Definition of academies measurements
42
B- The demand for indication of academies
measurements
44
Paragraph 2 : The application of academies
measurements
45
A- The implementation of academies measurements
45
B- The range of academies measurements
48
SECOND PART : THE EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE
CIJ IN
50
MATTER OF THE HUMANS RIGHT
50
CHAPTER I : A CONTRIBUTION LIMITEE BY THE
INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES
52
SECTION I : PRACTICE OF THE STATES AND THE
ORGANIZATIONS
52
INTERNATIONAL
52
Paragraph 1 : Practice of the States
52
A- A refractory practice with the implementation of
the decisions of the CIJ
52
B- A contrary conventional matter Practice
54
Paragraph 2: Timid practice of the
international organizations
57
A- International organizations and the sasine of the
CIJ
57
B- The emergence of the role of the international
organizations
59
SECTION II: A POSITION CLAIRE AS FOR THE
CREATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL PENAL JURISDICTIONS
61
Paragraph 2 : Contrarieties of
judgments : case of the Tadic business
63
A- The position of the problem
64
B- Effects of opposed judgments
65
CHAPTER II : A DECISIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE
PACIFICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY AND A THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW FIELDS
OF RIGHT
67
SECTION I : THE CIJ, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
67
Paragraph 1 : Consolidation of the right to
peace
68
A- The role of the CIJ in the consolidation of the
right to peace
68
B- A role shared with the Security Council
69
Paragraph 2 : The problem of the
interference
70
A- Definition
71
B- The intervention of the Court as regards
interference
72
SECTION II : CONTRIBUTION A THE EMERGENCE OF
NEW
74
FIELDS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
74
Paragraph 1 : Consolidation of the right to the
environment
75
A- Dedication of the international law of the
environment
75
B- The intervention of the environmental matter
CIJ
76
Paragraph 2 : Consolidation of the right to
health
77
A- Recognition of the right to health
77
B- The contribution of the CIJ as regards health
79
GENERAL CONCLUSION
82
BIBLIOGRAPHY
84
I- WORKS
84
II ARTICLES
84
III INTERNATIONAL TEXTS
88
IV REVIEWS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
88
V- JURISPRUDENCES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF
JUSTICE
89
A- Advisory opinions
89
B- Stops
89
CONTENTS
92
* 1 J. Mr. BECET, D. COLARD,
« Humans right, national and international dimensions »,
Paris, Economica, 1982, pp. 9-10.
* 2 Ibidem, pp. 10-11.
* 3 O. DUHAMEL and Y.
MENY, « Constitutional dictionary », Paris, PUF,
1992, p. 33.
* 4 B. BOUMAKANI,
« Democracy, human right, and State of right », Annals of
the Faculty of legal and political sciences, University of Dschang, Volume 1,
vol. 2, PUA, 1997, pp. 5-22.
* 5 International pact relating
to the civil laws and political, adopted and opened to the signature, the
ratification and adhesion by the General meeting of the United Nations in her
resolution 2200 A (XXI) of December 16, 1966. This Pact came into effect since
March 23, 1976, in accordance with the provisions of article 49.
* 6 International pact relating
to the social and cultural economic rights, adopted and opened to the
signature, the ratification and adhesion by the General meeting of the United
Nations in her resolution 2200 A (XXI) of December 16, 1966. This Pact came
into effect on January 3, 1976, in accordance with the provisions of article
27.
* 7 The Universal Declaration of
the Humans right was adopted and proclaimed by the Parliament of the United
Nations on December 10, 1948, in its Resolution 217 A (III).
* 8 Article 92 of the Charter of
the United Nations, and article 1 of the Statute of the International Court of
Justice.
* 9 It was the case in 1978 when
the Court revised its payment thus replacing the original payment of 1946
already amended in 1972. The last version of the payment dates from December 5,
2000.
* 10 Article 34 of the Statute
of the International Court of Justice.
* 11 CIJ, business of the
Project Gabcikovo-Nagimaros (Hungary/Slovakia), stop of September 25, 1997,
Rec., 1997 p. 3.
* 12 Article 40 of the Statute
of the International Court of Justice.
* 13 Article 66 of the
Convention of Vienna on the right of the Treaties of May 23, 1969 with regard
to the interpretation and the application of the standard of the juice
cogens.
* 14 Article 36 §2 of the
Statute of the CIJ.
* 15 Article 38 of the Statute
of the International Court of Justice.
* 16 CIJ, Reserves with
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide of
December 9, 1948, advisory opinion of May 28, 1951, Rec., 1951, p. 22.
CIJ, legal Consequences of the construction of a wall in the
occupied Palestinian territory, advisory opinion of July 9, 2004, Rec., 2004,
p. 1.
* 17 CIJ, legal
Conséquences for the presence continues of South Africa in Namibia,
advisory opinion of June 21, 1971, Rec., 1971, p. 16.
* 18 At the request of
the Economic and Social Council ; CIJ, Camaraswamy (different
relating to immunity from jurisdiction of a special rapporteur of the
Commission of the humans right), advisory opinion of April 29, 1999, Rec.,
1999, p. 10.
- At the request of UNESCO; CIJ, judgment of the
administrative Court of ILO on request against UNESCO, advisory opinion of
October 23, 1956, Rec. 1956.
- At the request of WHO ; CIJ, admissibility of the
threat or the use of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, p. 4.
* 19 It is the case of the
opinion of the CPJI of 1923 on the Decrees of nationality, series B n°4,
between France and the United Kingdom.
* 20 Article 37 § 2, of
the Deed of partnership of ILO provides an illustration of it : failing
to subject to the CIJ a litigation relating to the interpretation of the
charter constitutive or the conventions concluded under the auspices of ILO,
the Board of directors can subject to a special jurisdiction ; this one
will be bound by any judgment and any advisory opinion of the relevant CIJ.
For further information, to see Roberto AGO, «
Obligatory advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice :
problems of yesterday and today », Mixtures Michel VIRALLY,
international law to the service of peace, justice and the development,
Paris, A. PEDONE, 1991, pp. 9-24.
* 21 One will find a good
presentation of the various theories on the humans right in J. SHESTACK,
« The jurisprudence off Human Rigths », in T. MERON, ED.
Human Rigths in international law, Oxford University Near, London, 1984, vol.1,
p. 69.
* 22 Claude RUCZ,
« The indication of academies measurements by the International
Court of Justice in the business of the military and paramilitary activities in
Nicaragua and against this one », RGDIP, Volume 89/1985/1, p. 99.
* 23 CIJ, reserves with
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide of
December 9, 1948, advisory opinion of May 28, 1951, Rec., 1951
CIJ, admissibility of the threat or the use of the
nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996, Rec., 1996
;
CIJ, legal Consequences of the construction of a wall in
the occupied Palestinian territory, advisory opinion of July 9, 2004.
* 24 CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua against
the United States), stop of June 27, 1986, Rec., 1986.
CIJ, Barcelona traction, light and power, limited, stop of
February 5, 1970, Rec, 1970 ;
CIJ, Business relating to certain committed penal procedures in
France (Republic of Congo against France), demand for indication of academies
measurements, June 17, 2003, Rec., 2003 ;
CIJ, Business relating to the warrant for arrest of April 11,
2000 (DRC against Belgium), stop of February 14, 2002, Rec., 2002.
* 25 Caçado TRINIDADE,
« the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice on the
intangible rights », in D. Prémont and others, Right
intangible and states of exception, Bruylant, 1996, p.69.
* 26 G. ABI-SAAB, «
sources of the international law : test of déconstruction
», Amicorum Liber, E ; Jiménez de Aréchaga, Montevideo
FCU, 1994, p. 43.
* 27 B.SIMMA and pH. ALSTON,
« The sources off human rights law: Darmouth, 1996, p.26.
* 28 Gilbert
GUILLAUME : « The International Court of Justice and humans
right », Made Conference on July 12, 2001 at the time of the fourth
seminar of the Foundation Asia Europe in Denpasar (Indonesia).
* 29 See in particular :
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide of
December 9, 1948 ; convention for the repression of the draft of the
human beings and the exploitation of the prostitution of 1950, or Convention
against torture and other acts inhuman or degrading of December 10, 1984.
* 30 Serge ON, «
Some observations on the international legal standards », RGDIP,
1985, Volume 89, p. 911.
* 31 Francesco SALERNO,
« Counterclaim in the procedure of the International Court of
Justice », RGDIP, 1999, Volume 103 p. 355.
* 32 Ibidem.
* 33 Pierre Marie DUPUY,
« Elementary considerations of humanity in the jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice in Mixtures Nicolas VALTICOS, Right and justice,
Paris , PEDONE, 1999, p. 118.
* 34 Vincent CHETAIL,
« The contribution off the international international Court off
justice to humanitarian law », IRRC june 2003, vol. 85 n° 850.
* 35 Maurice BOURQUIN,
« The humanization of the law of nations », technique
and principles of public law, LGDJ, Paris, 1950, Volume first, p. 42.
* 36 K. WELLENS, «
The International Court of Justice and the protection of the humans right
», incidences of international jurisprudences on the Dutch and French
rights in particular on the humans right, Paris, PUF 1992, p. 8.
* 37 B. GAUTHIER,
« Social research », ED. Press University of Quebec,
Quebec, 1987, p. 464.
* 38 L. LEWIN,
« Seek Action and consultation in public management, Module I
: What R A ? », in Guide of the expert to the professional
training scheme in public management, Flight. III, December 1993.
* 39 Association for the
promotion of the Humans right in Africa Centrale whose seat is in Yaounde and
who is located in the buildings of the Catholic University of Africa Centrale
(campus of Ekounou).
* 40 Article 53 of the
Convention of Vienna of May 23, 1969 on the right of the treaties.
* 41 See in particular the stop
of the CIJ in the business of the award of the King d' Espagne, Rec., 1960, pp.
209-213.
* 42 The Court made up to come
to a conclusion about the determination of the maritime border
Guinea-Bissau/Senegal refused to examine the allegation of GuinéeBissau-
according to which the free-Portuguese Agreement of 1960 would be null because
of violation by France of its national law : « the only State
which could call upon this cause of nullity is Senegal » as a
successor of France (Award of July 31, 1989, RGDIP, 1990, p. 250 ; to
also see p. 232.
* 43 With regard to the error,
in its judgment delivered in the business of the Temple of Préah Vihear,
the CIJ also admitted the possibility of a confirmation express or tacit (stop
of June 15, 1962, bottom), Rec., 1962, pp. 23-24, 29-32.
* 44 In order to retain the
sanction of absolute nullity, the TDCI stated that « the use
of the constraint on the representative of the State in order to obtain the
concluding of a treaty would be thing of such a gravity that the article should
lay down the absolute nullity of the assent to a treaty obtained under such
conditions » (Year. TDCI. , 1996, flight. II, pp. 268-269).
* 45 Article 52 of the
Convention of Vienna of May 23, 1969 declares that « null is
very treated whose conclusion was obtained by the threat or the use of the
force in violation of the principles of international law built-in in the
Charter of the United Nations ».
* 46 CIJ, Barcelona traction,
light and power company, limited (Belgium counters Spain), stop of February 5,
1970, Rec., 1970, p. 32.
* 47 CIJ, Business of the
diplomatic and consular personnel from the United States in Teheran (the United
States of America against Iran), academies measurements, ordinance of December
15, 1979, Rec., 1979, p. 20.
* 48 CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua against
the United States, bottom), stop of June 27, 1986, Rec., 1986, p.113.
* 49 CIJ, Admissibility of the
threat or the use of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, p. 257 §79.
* 50 Committee of the humans
right, general observation n°24 (November 2, 1994), RUDH, 1995, p. 60.
* 51 The work of professor Rene
Jean DUPUY on this subject from which some of the following developments are
borrowed, is too dense to be completely evoked. We return only to two of its
building owner ; The international system closure, (PUF., Paris,
1989, 159 p.) and humanity in the imaginary one of nations (Juillard,
Paris, coll. « Conferences, tests and lesson of the college of
France », 1991, 284 p.).
* 52 CIJ, Business of the
African Western south (Ethiopia against South Africa ; Liberia counters
South Africa), stop of December 21, 1962, Rec., 1962, p. 329.
* 53 CIJ, Business of the
African western south (Ethiopia against South Africa ; Liberia counters
South Africa), stop of July 18, 1966, p. 51.
* 54 CIJ, Business of
Barcelona traction, light power company, limited (Belgium C/Spain), stop of
February 5, 1970, Rec., 1970, p. 32.
* 55 CIJ, Admissibility of the
threat or the use of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, p. 258.
* 56 Ibidem, p. 273.
* 57 Article 66 of the
Convention of Vienna on the right of treaties of May 23, 1969.
* 58 Michel VIRALLY,
« Reflections on the juice cogens », AFDI, 1996,
pp. 15-16.
See also article 71 of the Convention of Vienna of May 23,
1969, in particular with regard to the supervening of a juice cogens
standard.
* 59 DEBATEs A/Conf.39/II p.
326 §6.
* 60 CIJ, Business of the
African western South (Ethiopia against South Africa ; Liberia counters
South Africa), stop of July 18, 1966, Rec., 1966, p. 34.
* 61 Jean COMBACAU,
« International law, odds and ends or system ? »,
Files of philosophies of right, pp. 85-105.
* 62 D. COLLARD, «
First reflections on the treaty of the treaties », in international
newspaper, n°2, April, May, June, 1970.
* 63 CIJ, Business of
Barcelona traction, light power company, limited (Belgium C/Spain), stop of
February 5, 1970, Rec., 1970, p. 32.
* 64 CIJ, Application of
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide
(Bosnia-Herzégovine against Yugoslavia), preliminary exceptions of July
11, 1996, Rec., 1996, p. 616.
* 65 Article 36 §1 of the
Convention of Vienna on the right of the treaties of May 23, 1969.
* 66 CIJ, Business of
Barcelona traction, light power company, limited (Belgium C/Spain), stop of
February 5, 1970, Rec., 1970, p. 32 §33
* 67 CIJ, reserves with
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide of
December 9, 1948, advisory opinion of May 28, 1951, Rec., 1951, p. 23.
* 68 CIJ, Business of the
terrestrial, insular disagreement frontier maritime, stop of September 11,
1992, Rec., 1992, p. 610 § 424.
* 69 CIJ, Business of Eastern
Timor (Portugal against Australia), stop of June 30, Rec., 1996, p. 90.
See too : CIJ, Guinea-Bissau counters Senegal, stop of
November 12, 1991, Rec., 1991, p. 52.
* 70Business relating to the
Application of Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of
genocide (Bosnia-Herzégovine C. Yugoslavia), exceptions preliminary,
C.I.J. Rec., 1996, p. 612.
* 71 CIJ, legal Consequences of
the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, advisory
opinion of July 9, 2004, Rec., 2004, p. 60.
* 72 CIJ, legal
Conséquences for the States of the presence continues of South Africa in
Namibia, advisory opinion of June 21, 1971, Rec., 1971, p. 37.
* 73 CIJ, legal
Consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian
territory, advisory opinion of July 9, 2004, Rec., 2004, pp. 60-61 §154.
* 74 CIJ, Strait of Corfou,
melts, stop of April 9, 1949, Rec., 1949, p. 35.
* 75CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua C. the
United States of America), bottom, stop of June 27, 1986 Rec., 1986, p. 35.
* 76 Ibidem, p. 134
§268.
* 77 CIJ, Business of the
Strait of Corfou, stop of April 9, 1949, Rec., 1949, p. 35.
* 78The Tadic business of
the international penal Court for the ex Yugoslavia of October 2, 1995
reconsiders largely the competence which an ad hoc jurisdiction in the event of
massive violation of the humans right has the Security Council to create.
* 79Alain Didier OLINGA,
« Concept of dignity in international law of the humans right,
principle of unification or pretext with handling ? »
Human Dignity in Africa, Book of the UCAC n°1, Yaounde, PUCAC,
1996, pp. 233-234.
* 80 CIJ, Strait of Corfou,
stop, bottom, stop of April 9, 1949, Rec., 1949, p. 21.
* 81 Ibidem.
* 82CIJ, diplomatic and
consular Personnel from the United States in Teheran, stop of May 24, 1980,
Rec., 1980, p. 42 and 43.
* 83CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one, bottom, stop of June
27, 1986, CIJ, Rec., 1986, p. 112.
* 84TOKEN ENTRY DUPUY,
« Elementary considerations of humanity in the jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice », Mixtures Nicolas VALTICOS, Paris,
A. PEDONE, 1999, p. 122.
* 85CIJ, admissibility of
the use or the threat of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, §77.
* 86 Ibidem, p. 26.
* 87P.M. DUPUY,
« Elementary considerations of humanity in the jurisprudence of the
International Court of Justice », Mixtures Nicolas VALTICOS, Paris,
A. Pedone, 1999, p.125.
* 88 CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one, bottom, stop of June
27, 1986, Rec. 1986, p.114, §219.
* 89The Court developed the
absolute character of the elementary considerations of humanity in its
Détroit stop of Corfou of 1949 and in that of Nicaragua to the academies
measures.
* 90CIJ, admissibility of
the use or the threat of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, §79.
* 91Ibidem, §105.
* 92TOKEN ENTRY DUPUY,
COp. Cit., p. 130.
* 93 Jean Rene DUPUY :
Run of general international law to the Academy of The Hague, 1979.
* 94 CIJ, diplomatic and
consular Personnel from the United States in Teheran (Iran against the United
States), ordinance in academies measurements of December 15, 1979, Rec., 1979,
p. 19. It is indeed at the Court to estimate if the provisional measures are
essential, within sight of the situation : it orders them only if it is
convinced of the imminence of a not easily reparable damage.
* 95CIJ, Competence as
regards fisheries (the United Kingdom C. Iceland, the Federal Republic of
Germany C. Iceland), ordinance of August 17, 1972, Rec., 1972, p.16 §21
and p. 34 §22.
* 96 CIJ, Interhandel
Business, ordinance in academies measurements of October 24, 1957, Rec., 1957,
p. 111.
* 97 CIJ, Affaire relating to
certain penal procedures engage in France (Republic of Congo against France),
demand for indication of academies measurements, of June 17, 2003, Rec., 2003.
p. 10. Here the Court sees in the circumstances of the species, no need for
indicating academies measurements.
* 98CIJ, Business of the
military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this one
(Nicaragua C. the United States), Ordinance of January 10, 1986, Rec., 1986, p.
10.
* 99 CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua against
the United States), ordinance in academies measurements of May 10, 1984, Rec.,
1984, p. 169.
* 100Application of
Convention for the prevention and repression of the crime of genocide,
academies measurements, ordinance of April 8, 1993, CIJ. Rec., 1993, p. 3 and
325.
* 101 CIJ, Business relating
to the Convention of Vienna on the consular relations (Paraguay C. the United
States of America), ordinance in academies measurements of April 9, 1998, Rec.,
1998, § 1-22.
* 102 Article 36 paragraphe1
subparagraph B of the Convention of Vienna on the consular relations
of April 24, 1993.
* 103 CIJ, Business relating
to the Convention of Vienna on the consular relations (Paraguay C. the United
States of America), demand for indication of academies measurements of April 9,
1998, Rec., 1998, § 23-41.
* 104 CIJ, Business Walter
LaGrand (Germany C. the United States of America), demand for indication of
academies measurements of March 3, 1999, §8.
* 105 It is necessary to
announce the speed with which the Court came to a conclusion about the German
request, considering the gravity and the extreme urgency of the situation. The
German request having been deposited on March 2, 1999 with 19h 30 (The Hague
time) and the execution of Walter LaGrand being planned for the following day
with 15h (hour of Phoenix), the Court returned its ordinance in the day of
March 3, just a few hours before the fateful hour.
* 106 We will quote
here like examples : the attitude of France with regard to the ordinance
of June 22, 1973 in the business of the nuclear Tests (Rec. 1973, p. 99 and
135), it is also the case of Iran in the business of the diplomatic and
consular personnel from the United States in Teheran (ordinance of December 15,
1979, Rec. 1979, p. 7) or of the United States in the business of the military
and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this one (ordinance of May
10, 1984, Rec., 1984, p. 169.) and in several other businesses which we
examined in this paragraph.
* 107 CIJ, Competence
as regards fisheries, stop on the bottom of July 25, 1974, Rec., 1974, p. 175.
* 108 CIJ, military and
paramilitary activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua C. the
United States, bottom), stop of June 27, 1986, Rec., 1986, § 289.
* 109Hubert THIERRY,
« Evolution of the international law », general course of
public international law. RCADI, 1990, III.
* 110For an update of this
information, to see Internet site of the CIJ,
http://www.icj-cij.org/c.i.j.www/cdocumentbase/cbasicdeclarations.htm
* 111See as example the
declaration of India, which does not count less than 11 reserves.
* 112 See also Philippe
WECKEL, « Continuations of the decisions of the International
Court of Justice », AFDI, 1996, pp. 439-440.
* 113See in a general way
on this point Bernard TO THAT, « Agreements of Algiers of 19 June
1981 tending to the settlement of the disputes between the United States and
Iran », Clinet, 1981 pp. 713-775.
* 114See to this end the
statement made by the permanent representative of the United States to the
Security Council (Doc. S/pv.2704 of July 31, 1986, 2704° Session, P.
58).
* 115The business of the
decrees of nationality in Tunisia and in Morocco, C.P.J.I., Series B, n°
4, p.24.
* 116 Ibidem.
* 117Jean-Pierre COT and
Alain PELLET : « Comment of article 94 » in the
Charter of the United Nations Comment article by article, 2° ED. Paris,
Economica, 1991, §18.
* 118See the continuations
of the judgments delivered by the Court in the businesses of the territorial
Disagreement (Libya/Chad) (Collection 1994, p.6) and of the Island of
Kasikili/Sedudu (Namibia Botswana) (Collection 1999).
* 119The ordinances 2mars
1990 : Award of July 31, 1989, Guinea-Bissau C. Senegal, rec.1990,
p.64 ; July 29, 1991 : Passage by Grant Belt-Finland C. Denmark,
rec.1991, p.12 ; 14 avril1992 : Air incident of Lockerbie,
rec.1992, p.3 ; March 15, 1996 : Terrestrial and maritime border
enters Cameroun and Nigeria, rec.1996, p.13 ; 3mars 1999 : large
Germany c.Etats-plain, rec. 1999, p.9 ; June 23, 2003 : Republic of
Congo C. France, rec.2003 and others.
* 120Military and
paramilitary activities against Nicaragua and this one (Nicaragua C. the United
States), bottom, stop of June 27 CIJ Rec., 1986 § 267.
* 121G.
COHEN-JONATHAN, « The responsibility for infringement of the
humans right », the responsibility in the international system,
Paris, A. PEDONE, 1991, p.120 and following.
* 122 See, Articles 1 and 3 of
the article draft adopted by the TDCI 1996, flight. II, 2° Left, pp.
62-63.
* 123 We can quote here
several businesses which we saw in our first part with knowing : the
Breard business of 1998, the LaGrand business of 1999 or the Avena business of
2003.
* 124 Sir Gerald FITZMAURICE,
in A/CN. 4/101, art 3, Year. TDCI. 1956 - II, p. 106.
* 125 P. DALLIER and A.
PELLET, « Public international law », Paris,
L.G.D.J. 1999, 6th ED. p. 572.
* 126 Date of the registration
at the Clerk's office of the Court of the letter of the general manager of WHO,
communicating the reflection resolution WHA 46.40 adopted by the Parliament of
WHO the 1e May 1993.
* 127Date of the
registration of the clerk's office of the letter of December 19, 1994 of the
Secretary-general of UNO, communicating resolution 19/75k adopted by the
General meeting on December 15, 1994.
* 128CIJ, op.cit. §21.
* 129Preamble to the
constitution of WHO, to also see article 2 enumerating the functions of the
organization.
* 130 Resolution 45/6
of the General meeting of October 16, 1990.
* 131 Resolution 49/2
of the General meeting of October 19, 1994.
* 132 Article 15 §2 of
the Statute of the international penal Court.
* 133 S. MALJEAN-DUBOIS,
« The business relating to the application of Convention for the
prevention of the crime of genocide », stop of July 11, Exceptions
preliminary, Directory france Dr. int. 1996, p. 357 ; See also H.
RUIZ-FABRI and J-M. SOREL, « Chronicle of jurisprudence of the
CIJ » (1996), J.D.I. 1998, p. 837.
* 134 CIJ, Application of
Convention for the prevention and the repression of the crime of genocide
(Bosnia Herzégovine C. Yugoslavia), ordinance of April 8, 1993 on a
demand for indication of academies measurements, Rec., 1993, § 42.
* 135 Ibidem.
* 136 H. RUIZ FABRI and J-M.
SOREL, « Chronicle of jurisprudence of the CIJ » (1996),
JDI, 1998, p. 858.
* 137 T. CHRISTAKIS,
« Relations between the CIJ and the TPIY : First cracks with
the unit of the right ? », The United Nations observer,
n° 1- 1996, p. 45.
* 138 Frederic DOPAGNE,
« The responsibility for the State because of the private
individuals : causes of charge revisited by the articles on the
responsibility for the State for internationally illicit fact »,
RBDI, 2001-2 pp. 493-525.
* 139 Gilbert GUILLAUME
: Speech in front of the General meeting of the United Nations on October 30,
2001.
* 140 Gilbert GUILLAUME
: Speech in front of the General meeting of the United Nations on October 26,
2000.
See also for more information : Daniel SOULEZ-LARIVIERE and
others, « Progress and limits of international justice
», Our justice. The book of French justice, ED. Robert LAFFONT,
2002, p. 385 ; Gilbert GUILLAUME : « The
International Court of Justice at the dawn of the XXe century. The glance of a
judge », ED., A. PEDONE, 2003, p. 26.
* 141 B. BOUTROS
GHALI, « Diary for peace », 2° editions,
N.U., New York, 1995, pp. 64-66.
* 142Ibidem, p.65 ;
to see in the same direction, O.Paye, « Operations of
maintenance of peace and new local disorders » ; in A. Daen
and Al With the research of the new world order. II. UNO : changes and
challenges, Brussels, ED. Complex, 1993, pp.93-136, p.95.
* 143C. Leben, «
International jurisdiction », Right, n° 9, 1989,
p.143.
* 144CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one (Nicaragua C. the
United States, bottom), stop of June 27, 1986, Rec., 1986, p. 435 § 95.
* 145Luigi
CONDORELLI, « Jurisdictions and (dice) legal order in
international law : some remarks about the stop of October 2, 1995 of the
room of call of the international penal Court for the ex Yugoslavia in the
Tadic business », Mixtures Nicolas VALTICOS, A. PEDONE 1999, pp.
281-286.
* 146Legal consequences of the
construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, advisory opinion
of July 9, 2004, Rec., 2004, p. 62, §161.
* 147Philippe CHRESTIA
: « The influence of the humans right on the evolution of the
contemporary international law », RTDH n° 40, 1999, p.
723.
* 148CIJ, military and
paramilitary Activities in Nicaragua and against this one, stop of June 27,
1986, CIJ, Rec., 1986, pp. 134-135.
* 149 CIJ, COp cit., P.125.
§242.
* 150S/res./733 (1992) of
January 23, 1992, K. WELLENS, resolutions and declarations of the Security
Council (collection set of themes), Bruyant, Brussels, 1993, p. 343.
* 151S/res./758 (1992) of
June 8, 1992, RGDIP, 1992/4, p.1047.
* 152J.D. BOUKONGOU,
« The coordination of the humane policies : which lessons
starting from the experiments of central Africa ? » Stakes
n° July-September 8, 2001, p. 9-12.
* 153CIJ, admissibility of
the use or the threat of the nuclear weapons, advisory opinion of July 8, 1996,
Rec., 1996, § 29.
* 154Ibidem, §30. In
this context, the Court quotes, it to approve, the principle 24 of the
Declaration of Rio.
* 155CIJ, following COp
cit., §20 and.
* 156CIJ, COp cit.,
§54-57.
* 157CIJ, COp cit.,
§57.
* 158CIJ, COp cit.,
§35.
* 159Overall study of the
nuclear weapons, Report/ratio of the Secretary-general, Doc. UNO.
With/September 45,/373,18 1990, p. 90, §327.
* 160Protocol III of the
Agreements of Paris of October 23, 1954 on the control of the armaments, Annexe
II, in RGDIP, 1963, p. 825.
* 161 Principal opinion,
§78.
* 162 Individual opinion of
Fleischhauer judge, §2.
* 163 Declaration of Mr.
Bedjaoui, president, §20.
* 164 Declaration of Mr.
Herczegh.
* 165 Dissenting opinion of
Koroma judge.
* 166Dissenting opinion of
Weeramantry judge.
* 167 Gilbert GUILLAUME
: Speech in front of the General meeting of the United Nations on October 30,
2000.
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