Human Security and its Dimensions in Public International Law


Abstract in English

This research shed light on the concept of human security and the new values it adds to the current concepts in international law. It starts with identifying human security and its elements and the main mechanism to achieve it, through what will be presented of the work of publicists and international bodies. Then it proceeds to the international changes that led to its appearance, and the criticisms that were directed to this concepts, and the main international bodies that work in this field, whether inside or out side the structure of the United Nations, to conclude with the similarities and diffrences between human security one the first hand and human rights and traditonal concepts of security on the other had.

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