CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Speight, Georgia Ellen |
|---|---|
| Title | Prevention is better than a cure: assessing the development of prevention obligations in International Human Rights Law |
| Summary | The importance of prevention obligations on first glance seems obvious, ‘as the old adage states, prevention is better than cure’. For victims of human rights violation, this difference can mean life or death. It is therefore especially important for human rights law to include measures which prevent human rights violations. This may be a lofty goal and it would most likely universally be agreed that is not possible to prevent all violations of human rights. Yet the challenge provided by prevention obligations does not negate the need for such measures, the state cannot sit idly by whilst human rights are violated. In fact, these obligations already exist in various international human rights instruments. Moreover, these obligations have been recognised and emphasized by supervisory bodies. Yet, despite this widespread existence of prevention obligations, there remains little scholarship on the obligation to prevent human rights violations. Therefore, this thesis intends to analyse the development of obligations to prevent in international human rights law. |
| Supervisor | Möschel, Mathias |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/speight_georgia.pdf |
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