Примеры использования Minimum standards of humanity на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Minimum standards of humanity;
How can respect for minimum standards of humanity be ensured?
Minimum standards of humanity should apply in all situations.
It is essential to ensure that the development of minimum standards of humanity does not seriously affect the rules of international law.
Minimum standards of humanity should not be considered as norms of international law.
Under these circumstances, Switzerland believes that minimum standards of humanity cannot be adopted in the form of binding provisions of international law.
Minimum standards of humanity, including those enshrined in article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, must be respected in situations of armed conflict.
Switzerland fully endorses the conclusions adopted on this issue at the Cape Town Workshop: the minimum standards of humanity must be applicable in all situations.
These are minimum standards of humanity, and they are the basis of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
The aim of the meeting was not to coordinate the positions of OSCE member States, butto provide an opportunity to discuss issues related to minimum standards of humanity.
As stated above, the minimum standards of humanity should apply to all situations and actors.
In view of such violations, there is an urgent need to promote the universal adoption of a political declaration concerning minimum standards of humanity applicable in all circumstances and at all times.
The development of minimum standards of humanity should meet the need for adequate protection of the individual in such situations.
In the light of the frequency of internal armed conflicts, which are often related to ethnic confrontations,it is essential to increase awareness of the minimum standards of humanity which have to be respected by all parties at all times.
Switzerland believes that the usefulness of developing minimum standards of humanity does not depend on the existence of lacunae or deficiencies in the existing legal regimes.
International efforts to disseminate and implement existing international norms(particularly human rights and international humanitarian law)should be continued independently of the development and dissemination of the minimum standards of humanity.
Switzerland considers that minimum standards of humanity should apply to all the actors concerned, i.e. to all State, inter-State and non-State groups, and also to individuals.
Switzerland reaffirms its hope that it will be possible to discuss the analytical report by the Secretary-General on the question of minimum standards of humanity in an open-ended seminar under the auspices of the Commission on Human Rights.
In absolute terms therefore, these minimum standards of humanity, inspired by the binding international instruments of humanitarian law and human rights, as well as by the relevant international customary law.
Switzerland considers that this issue raises the following questions, which have thus far received little attention in the discussion of minimum standards of humanity: in what form should possible minimum standards of humanity be adopted?
Following the Cape Town workshop, Switzerland hopes that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights will mandate the Centre for Human Rights in Geneva to undertake an analytical study, jointly with the ICRC,of all matters relating to minimum standards of humanity.
In that context,the European Union wished to reiterate that certain minimum standards of humanity, including those established under common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, must be respected in all situations of armed conflict.
In its comments submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/26(E/CN.4/1997/77/Add.1 of 28 January 1997), Switzerland emphasized the importance it attaches to“minimum humanitarian standards”,which it suggested calling“minimum standards of humanity”.
Therefore, no attempt should be made to define the situations in which minimum standards of humanity are applicable since any attempt at a definition would inevitably involve limiting the scope of application of these standards and would therefore run counter to their purpose.
Conflicts between national armies had been replaced by bloody internal and ethnic conflicts where civilians were not accidental casualties but the primary target of attacks, where crimes against humanity and even genocide were not just a means but a purpose of the conflict,and where the minimum standards of humanity agreed under international humanitarian law were violated as a matter of policy, not by accident.
Consideration should be given to the possibility of including the following minimum standards of humanity in such a declaration: Cf. the eighth annual report of the Special Rapporteur on human rights and states of emergency, of 26 June 1995(E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/20 and Corr.1), annex I Report of the Meeting of Experts on Rights not subject to Derogation during States of Emergency and Exceptional Circumstances.
Ms. EVATT said that the title of section J should read:“Minimum humanitarian standards- fundamental standards of humanity”.
With regard to the subject of the Workshop, minimum humanitarian standards or standards of humanity applicable in all situations, the speaker also referred to the concept of ubuntu, a South African value system characterized by humanity and humaneness.
The discrepancy between the scale of the abuses perpetrated in situations of internal violence, and the apparent lack of clear rules,has been the inspiration for efforts to draw up“minimum humanitarian standards” or fundamental standards of humanity.
Also, he had been informed that the analytical report of the Secretary-General referred to in the penultimate preambular paragraph concerned“minimum humanitarian standards” and not“fundamental standards of humanity”.