Mass Expulsion And International Law PDF Download

Mass expulsion involves not only individual human beings and expelling and receiving states; it also involves international and regional community interests. Mass expulsion is thus a destabilising factor and in itself a major threat to the development and maintenance of desirable standards of interstate conduct. At the same time, it invites serious consideration not only of fundamental principles of human rights (in their individual aspect), but also of related concerns of states, including issues of self-determination, development, economic rights and sovereignty over natural resources. The ultimate aim is to reach a series of guidelines or standards of conduct commensurate with that degree of protection of human dignity which is required by the international community. The danger of such an exercise is that it may be manipulated to the point of raising soft law over hard law, so that principles are diluted, standards fudged and the sharp edge of rules blunted.