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INTERVENTION GROUNDS HUMANITY [1 record]

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Record 1 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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