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HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION [3 records]

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Record 1 2017-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

Where circumstances warrant humanitarian intervention by the Department in order to implement the overall humanitarian strategies of the Government of Canada, that intervention being in keeping with the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

OBS

Term found in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, 2002.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

Les circonstances justifient une intervention d'ordre humanitaire de la part du ministère pour mettre en œuvre les stratégies humanitaires globales du gouvernement canadien, intervention qui est en accord avec le travail accompli par le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés.

OBS

Terme tiré du Règlement sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, 2002.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

It is thus logical that invoking the principles of humanitarian intervention in such an asymmetrical way is met with some considerable reticence. Thus, during the G-77 summit, which brought together the poorest nation-states, the "so-called right of humanitarian intervention" claimed by powerful states was condemned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

Les événements du Kosovo ont réactualisé l’ancien débat sur l’existence d’un « droit d’intervention humanitaire », qui permettrait aux Etats d’intervenir militairement pour mettre fin à de graves violations des droits de l’homme, en dépit de l’absence d’une résolution du Conseil du sécurité les y autorisant.

Spanish

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Record 3 1987-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
CONT

Intervention is also sometimes resorted to on humanitarian grounds when a State is guilty of cruelties against its nationals in such a way as to deny their fundamental rights and to shock the conscience of mankind.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
DEF

Expression employée par certains auteurs, [...], pour désigner l'action exercée par un État sur un gouvernement étranger dans le but de faire cesser les traitements contraires aux lois de l'humanité qu'il inflige à des particuliers, fussent-ils ses propres ressortissants.

Spanish

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