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encapsulates two fundamental features of the professional life of Fred Soons as an international lawyer. The first is a strong belief in inter- national law and the values that it serves; not because of any particular sub- stantive value like human rights, development or the protection of species, but
image of Adam and Eve and their descendants, fails to do so, Yahweh sends a flood that erases Earthly life and then makes a new covenant with creation, an “everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth” (Genesis 9:16) so that history might begin again
.83 In its General Comment, the Com- mission dedicates the final section to “Interpreting the right to life broadly.” The African Charter is a ground-breaking and living embodiment of the fact that all human rights are indivisible and inter-connected. Civil and political, social, economic and
that possess all of the traits of a living person,”52 was dismissed with the statement that “objects or entities without any attributes of life in the observable or provable sense are generally not afforded a legally protected interest for standing purposes,”53 because no “comparable identifiable
-state. But these forces by themselves are inadequate to cause the mutation of the nation-state into Free State. A more fundamental transformation in the conditions of global life, consistent with the purposes of contemporary international law, must also occur before nation-states would relinquish their
informed by moral intelligence. The morally intelligent individual is not merely a consumer ofrights or a self-centered taker of benefits, but strikes a balance between taking and giving. The good life is therefore primarily transactional, motivated by the spirit of tijara, not merely in commerce but in
learn throughout their lives: As a rule, however, they like their learning activities to be problem centred and to be meaningful to their life situations, and they want the learnin g outcomes to have some immediacy of appl icat ion. The past experiences of adults affect their current learn ing
that the biosphere has a limited capacity to assimilate our environmental damage and still sustain life. It has a finite physical size; its various components, both living and nonliving, are deeply interdependent and interconnected; and the time scale for restoration is usually immense compared
Convention (above n. 1), Preamble. UNESCO Cultural Diversity Declaration (above n. 1), Article 4; see also Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 21, Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (Arti- cle 15, para. 1 (a), of the International Covenant on Economic, Social
, land, wild species of fauna and flora, and any interrelationship between them, as well as any relationship with living organ- isms.”5 This may, nevertheless, not be a definition that covers all environmental issues—and it is not binding on non-EU countries or for other directives. When defining the