مفهوم التراث المشتركة للإنسانية في القانون الدولي

Abstract EN

It was only after the mid-1960s that the international community perceived the immense potential of the oceans and outer space.

The international society, at that time began to recognize that the technological abyss between industrialized and non-industrialized countries could further aggravate the inequalities between the rich and the poor countries.

When these concerns came to fore in the United Nations General Assembly in 1967, a proposal was made by Dr.

Arvid Pardo -Malta’s Ambassador to the United Nations- that the deep seabed and ocean floor and its resources should be declared the common heritage of mankind.

Since then, the notion of the “common heritage of mankind” (CHM) has attached considerable attention and generated polemical debate in international forums.

This article discusses what the CHM principle means in international law.

And what is its legal status.

It also focuses on recent developments affecting its implementation and its possible future.