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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
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
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
CHAPTER 2 PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too. Imagine all the people Living life in peace . . . You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one1 1
unbearable weight of abject poverty. But that was not all. In the shrinking world society, a growing number of these poor were waking up to the realization of how the people in the rich countries were living. As the image, ways of life and consumer habits of the rich countries, impressive evidence of