About the book It looks for impacts of human rights in international law, in some its fields: imperative norms and fundamental principles, international security, international criminal justice, protection of the environment, humanitarian issues, state responsibility, responsibility of transnational corporations, cultural and linguistic diversity. The different chapters are based on international treaties and other documents, on the practice of States, of international and internal courts, of international organizations.The author underlines what are applicable norms of international law, where they exist, or approaches and trends in other fields, taking into account the more recent evolutions, like for instance in the fields of responsibility of transnational companies or of the protection of environment and the response to climate change. The law on human rights, as a chapter of international law, is also in progress, as it is proved with regard to structural racial discrimination and to the racist hate speech and with regard to evolutions in Europe, with all lacunae and inconsistencies which could be noted. Based on extensive research, the book brings in experiences from all continents, all regional courts and bodies, from international bodies such as the International Court of Justice, UNESCO, UNDP, International Law Commission, International Criminal Court and other criminal tribunals, and is trying to substantiate the universality of human rights, in spte of the world diversity. Each of the 24 chapters of the book is taking stock of the existing rules, attempts and experiences and can offer a good basis for a more extended study.
About the Author: Biography Dr. Ion Diaconu is born in Romania, on 23 October 1938. Graduated the Faculkty of Law in Bucharest in 1960 and obtained the PH. D. in political sciences (specialization in international law) in Geneva, Switzerland in 1971. He served as carrier diplomat until 2005, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as in Romanian missions in Belgium (1978-1980), in New-York (19981-1986) and then as ambassador of Romania in Denmark (1993-1997) and in Russian Federation (1997-2001). He attended many international conferences(Conference for the codification of consular relations, 1963; Conference on trade and development, 2004; Conference on the Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1973-1975; UN Conference on social security, 1996; World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2001) and was a member of international bodies like the Permanent Court of Arbitration (1993-2002), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1991-2003 and 2007-2015), the Committee for regional or minority languges of the Council of Europe and the Advisory Committee to the Human Rights Council of the UN (presently). He published more than 30 books on international rights and human rights, such as Human Rights, theory and practice, International Relations in Modern and Contemporary Times, International Criminal Court, Minorities in International Law, Racial Discrimination, Culture and Human Rights, as well as more than 100 ustudies published in jornals in Romanian, English and French.