strategy
Promoting international law
Synonyms:
Disseminating international lawAppreciating international law
Publicizing international law
Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Implementation:
Over 300 international treaties, on topics as varied as human rights conventions to agreements on the use of outer space and seabed, have been enacted through the efforts of the UN since its creation in 1945. Claim:
The world must strive to ensure that the global society of the future is characterized by law, not by lawlessness; by rules that all must respect; by the reality that all, including the weakest, are equal under the law and that none, including the most powerful, is above the law. Narrower:
Promoting harmonious international lawDisseminating international humanitarian lawStrengthening implementation of human rightsEstablishing international courts Facilitates:
Enforcing international law Facilitated by:
Promoting new lawsMonitoring international conventionsStandardizing international penal law Values:
Lawfulness Organizations:
Inter-American Bar Association IMO International Maritime Law Institute Inter-American Juridical Committee United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law World Jurist Association Subjects:
Communication → AdvertisingCommunication → Promotion
Law → Law
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
