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  2. International law - Wikipedia

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    International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an ...

  3. Sources of international law - Wikipedia

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    Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...

  4. International legal system - Wikipedia

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    The international legal system is the foundation for the conduct of international relations.It is this system that regulates state actions under international law.The principal subjects of international law are states, rather than individuals as they are under municipal law.

  5. International human rights law - Wikipedia

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    International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law.

  6. International legal theories - Wikipedia

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    Many early international legal theorists were concerned with axiomatic truths thought to be reposed in natural law.Sixteenth century natural law writer, Francisco de Vitoria, a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca, examined the questions of the just war, the Spanish authority in the Americas, and the rights of the Native American people.

  7. What is the International Criminal Court and what does an ...

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    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza.. The Israeli premier and his former defence minister Yoav ...

  8. International Court of Justice - Wikipedia

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    The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.

  9. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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    The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial. [3]