Integrating environmental values into the European Convention on Human Rights
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Environmental protection can best be pursued through procedural rights rather than through substantive human rights under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The approach of recognizing a right to environmental protection fails to account for the disparity between individual and collective interests in the quality of the environment or the possibility of conflict between human rights and environmental protection. Procedural rights are based on national environmental law and encompass principles such as the right to a tribunal, the right to information and the right to participate in decision-making.
Publication Name: American Journal of International Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0002-9300
Year: 1995
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The Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act: United States control over exports
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The US legislation proposed to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention may lead to liberalized chemical export control, since some foreign entities will be exempt from the restrictions. However, some currently uncontrolled exported chemicals will become controlled and other aspects of the chemical control regime will become stricter. All US exports will have to meet requirements regarding country of destination. The act's major provisions prohibit the development and production of weapons and control related chemical substances' production.
Publication Name: American Journal of International Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0002-9300
Year: 1996
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: a national security perspective
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National security considerations support U.S. accession to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, in addition to the environmental reasons previously outlined by John Stevenson and Bernard Oxman. U.S. accession to the convention would confirm its world leadership position and promote a stable maritime regime, helping to preserve freedom of navigation in the oceans. Reductions in size of the U.S. Navy and rising costs of the U.S. Freedom of Navigation Program provide further reasons for ratifying the convention.
Publication Name: American Journal of International Law
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0002-9300
Year: 1995
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