Human rights norms : a special set of rules

Abstract EN

Human rights provisions differ from the internal rules on the one hand and the other branches of international law on the other hand.

Among its most important characteristics is that it is objective in nature and not subject to the rule of reciprocity, which made it live up to the norms of customary and peremptory norms - or at least some of them - which made them obligations in the face of all.

All of these characteristics have proven that the norms of international human rights law are intrinsically universal, as they deviate from the network of treaty obligations to attain the status of normative rules imposed on the entire international community