Most countries have acceded to at least one global or regional covenant or treaty confirming the right to health. After years of international discussions on human rights, many governments are now moving towards practical implementation of their commitments. A practical example may be of help to those governments who aim to translate their international treaty obligations into practice. WHO's E...

Abstract Discussions on the allocation of international responsibility between an organization and its member states do not comprehensively engage with role obligations in assigning to and/or members. The present article sets out what will be termed obligations-based approach by exploring phenomenon sharing members, as well implications thereof for their under law. It so focusing practice concl...

BACKGROUND Diplomatic organizations routinely send staff to high-threat postings (HTPs) and consequentially have moral and legal obligations to protect their health as far as is reasonably practicable. AIMS To carry out an international survey of diplomatic organizations that send personnel to HTPs to establish how they deal practically with their obligations to protect the mental health of t...

1. Common and shared responsibility is a principle of international law and is applied in many fields of cooperation. It is thus not specific to drug control. Whereas international treaties establish a set of rules creating individual obligations for States parties, the principle of common and shared responsibility goes much further. It provides the framework for a cooperative partnership among...

Abstract This article analyses international obligations related to adaptation in the UN climate change regime. It argues that interpretation and application of these can compel shape anticipatory, proactive state measures on, support for, adaptation. To accomplish this, begins from premise regime’s treaties are a dynamic part system law should strive for coherence. Accordingly, it takes an evo...