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Arapska povelja o ljudskim pravima – kritički osvrt
Arab Charter On Human Rights – A Critical Review

Author(s): Miloš Petrović
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Institut za uporedno pravo
Keywords: human rights; the Arab Charter; the League of Arab States;

Summary/Abstract: Within international-legal regulations, human rights have been recognizing, since few years ago, the codifications in universal and regional, continental levels (European, inter-American, African). Since Arab Charter on Human Rights was introduced in 2008, we were able, for the first time, to face the particular system of human rights that is codified within the framework of a special civilization and legal domain that is not confined to the continents for the reason of Arab countries of Asia and Africa have been the signatories. The Charter, concerning its text, made a significant deflection from the traditionalists’ approach to human rights that had been so specific for the Arab world. It was written in a universal spirit, so it almost does not differ in its legal and technical sense from similar documents that establish the universal and particular systems of human rights elsewhere in the world. The mere process of acquiring the Charter was quite long and complex, and it was adopted for the first time in 1994, but it was not empowered, until revised and modified Charter form 2004 was legally introduced and decreed in 2008. Even though modernized, the Charter has several drawbacks. The most conspicuous one is the lack of adequate mechanism of protecting human rights. Therefore, there are initiatives set in the Arab world that the Charter be complemented by a Protocol that would establish the Arab Court for Human Rights, resembling to similar courts that thrive on European, American and African continent, with more or less achievement.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-32
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian