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AUSTRALlA'S APPROACH TO TREATIES 27 Australia's Approach to International Treaties on Roman Rights By DOMINIQUE F J J DE STOOP* Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine some of the more important policy and legal factors that have determined the attitude of successive Australian governments, since 1948, on the question of assuming inter national legal obligations on human rights. In so far as they can be distin guished, the emphasis will be on the domestic rather than on the international policy aspects of this question. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. That year is a convenient starting point for the purpose of this article as the Universal Declaration represents the first of a number of major achieve ments of the United Nations in systematically elaborating standards on human rights in international instruments. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was proclaimed 'as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations' recognizes a wide variety of civil, economie, social, religious, cultural and criminal process rights and freedoms. Some of these minimum standards have been the subject of specialized and
The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1975
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