

“The legal basis for state responsibility for violations of human rights derives from breach of a human rights treaty or a human rights norm of customary international law.

Gross, Oren, “Once More unto the Breach: The Systemic Failure of Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to Entrenched Emergencies”(1998), 23 Yale J.

“Reconciling such individual rights with the needs and interests of the community at large in situations falling short of a public emergency crisis is further facilitated by “limitations clauses” that permit, even in ordinary times, a breach of an obligation imposed by the convention for specified reasons such as public order, public safety, morals, or national security.”

and Anthony Wilfred Bradley, European Human Rights Law: Text and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2008, Preface. “Nowadays, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg regularly finds nations in breach of their obligations under the international human rights law of the European Human Rights Convention.” Synonyms: Fracture, Infraction, Violation, Transgression.īreach is used infrequently in reference to laws or rules, more often in connection with desirable conditions or states of affairs: a breach of the peace, of good manners, of courtesy.ĭ, (accessed on April 27, 2012).įrench translation: Violation des droits humains an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise. the act or a result of breaking break or rupture.Ģ.
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The Free Dictionary, (accessed on April 27, 2012).ġ. The term encompasses largely the same rights called civil liberties or civil rights but often suggests rights that have not been recognized.ĭ, (accessed on March 23, 2012)īasic rights that fundamentally and inherently belong to each individual. Freedom from arbitrary interference or restriction by governments. The rights of individuals to liberty, justice, etcģ. Fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc.Ģ. Oxford Dictionaries, (accessed on March 23, 2012).ġ.
