1478 index
Racial Discrimination (cont.)
reporting obligations, improvements
to procedures 314
role and activities 312–14
trust/non-self-governing territories
and 313–14
urgent procedures 312, 337
Racial Discrimination Convention
(1965)
ad hoc Conciliation Commission 313
compromissory clause (ICJ) 1079
conclusion/entry into force 280, 286
federal state compliance 221–2
individual’s rights under 259
‘racial discrimination’ 288
treaty succession 983 n144
racial discrimination, prohibition
see also non-discrimination
customary international law
and 286–7
as erga omnes obligation 124
as jus cogens/peremptory norm 808
n198
state sovereignty/domestic
jurisdiction principle and 213
Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action (1993) 280
racist regimes, applicability of Geneva
Conventions in struggles against
1149 n157, 1172, 1173 n30, 1195
n143
Radbruch, Gustav 53
radioactive materials, safety
considerations 881, 889
dumping at sea 620
nuclear power installations and 643,
893–4
outer space 547, 881 n206
Tr an sb oundary Movement of Nuclear
Waste, IAEA Code of Practice
(1990) 896–7
Rainbow Warrior
Chorz´ow Factory principle/restitutio
in integrum 803
damages, measure of 803
material breach of treaty 948
state responsibility 779, 786, 797–8,
800
termination of treaty and 946
Rameses II 14
rape
as crime against humanity 408, 436
Darfur 1265 n311
Declaration of Minimum
Humanitarian Standards 1198
definition in international law 409
ethnic cleansing and 433
Geneva Conventions, Protocol I
and 1196
as genocide 670
as ‘grave breach’ 403, 1196
realism and the law 49, 53, 55–6
rebellions
see also civil war
aid to rebels, exclusion 1152–8
Declaration on Principles of
International Law (1970) 1152–3
as internal matter 1149, 1195
use of force, right 1126
rebus sic stantibus: see fundamental
change of circumstances/rebus sic
stantibus (VCLT 62(2))
reciprocity
as basis for compliance with law 7,
40, 44
as essential element in obligations
between states 751–2, 754, 764,
1082–3, 1169, 1318–19, 1326
recognition (general) 444–5
as discretionary act 450, 453, 471
executive certificates, role 471,
472–3, 477–8, 480–1, 482, see also
executive certificates
as executive responsibility 471, 473
of fishing zone claims 581–2
judicial role 471, 482
non-recognition policy: see
non-recognition policy
political considerations 445, 447,
450, 455, 456, 457–8, 465, 468, 471
recognition as what? 445, 453
as responsibility of individual
state 444, 450–1, 466
territorial sovereignty overthehigh
seas 609
recognition (general), legal effects
see also non-recognition, effect
contracts, enforceability 473