Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: A Case Study on the Practice of Czechoslovakia and Its Successor States
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Conformity with human rights norms is currently a standard component of democratic states’ policies. However, this conformity is reflected not only in domestic binding catalogues of human rights embodied in constitutions, but also in the continuous rise of international control and treaty commitments. States are widely expected to commit to and ratify international human rights documents. Nevertheless, a great deal of the research on state commitments disregards the effects and changes which might be brought upon these ratifications by the submission of reservations. This article proposes an in-depth analysis of state commitments and the practice of submitting reservations in two case studies: the Czech Republic and Slovakia, together with their common predecessor, communist (and, briefly, democratic) Czechoslovakia, and maps the way these regimes, in their different stages of transitional development, worked with reservations.
This contribution has been elaborated within the framework of the project „International Human Rights Obligations of the Czech Republic: Trends, Practice, Causes and Consequences“, GA13-27956S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation GAČR.
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20
Cole, supra note 11, p. 477.
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Neumayer, supra note 1, pp. 403–404.
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Sikkink, supra note 21.
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Neumayer, supra note 1, p. 401. However one must bear in mind that non-democratic states do not represent a homogeneous category and their attitudes will differ in relation to several factors and variables.
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Neumayer, supra note 1, pp. 420–421.
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Goodman, supra note 7, p. 544.
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Neumayer, supra note 1, p. 406.
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As of 10 July 2013.
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See for details, supra section 4.2.1.2.
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See e.g. Neumayer, supra note 1, pp. 420–421.
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Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: A Case Study on the Practice of Czechoslovakia and Its Successor States
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Conformity with human rights norms is currently a standard component of democratic states’ policies. However, this conformity is reflected not only in domestic binding catalogues of human rights embodied in constitutions, but also in the continuous rise of international control and treaty commitments. States are widely expected to commit to and ratify international human rights documents. Nevertheless, a great deal of the research on state commitments disregards the effects and changes which might be brought upon these ratifications by the submission of reservations. This article proposes an in-depth analysis of state commitments and the practice of submitting reservations in two case studies: the Czech Republic and Slovakia, together with their common predecessor, communist (and, briefly, democratic) Czechoslovakia, and maps the way these regimes, in their different stages of transitional development, worked with reservations.
This contribution has been elaborated within the framework of the project „International Human Rights Obligations of the Czech Republic: Trends, Practice, Causes and Consequences“, GA13-27956S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation GAČR.
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