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The Right to Life in International Law. Edited by B. G. Ramcharan. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985. Pp. xii, 371. Index. Dfl.175; $57.50; £48.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

J. G. C. van Aggelen
J. G. C. van Aggelen*
Affiliation:
United Nations Centre for Human Rights, Geneva
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 742 - 745
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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1 For a very enlightening account of the activities of the Research Centre, see the article by Boutros-Ghali, B. Dr. under the title Le Centre d’étude et de recherche de droit international et de relations internationales de l’Académie de droit international de La Haye , in Jubilee Book 1923–1973, at 139–57 (Hague Academy 1973)Google Scholar.

2 30 Neth. Int’l L. Rev. 297–319 (1983).

3 The Human Rights Committee stated in 1982:

The expression “inherent right to life” cannot properly be understood in a restrictive manner, and the protection of this right requires that states adopt positive measures. In this connection, the Committee considers it would be desirable for States parties to take all possible measures to reduce infant mortality and to increase life expectancy, especially in adopting measures to eliminate malnutrition and epidemics [pp. 66–67J.

37 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 40) at 93, UN Doc. A/37/40 (1982).

4 See Black’s Law Dictionary 837 (4th rev. ed. 1968).

5 The word “Cross” is missing after “International Committee of the Red” (p. 267) and the Third Geneva Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War was signed in 1949, not in 1948 (p. 270).

6 See van Aggelen, J. G. C., Le Rôle des organisations internationales Dansla protection du droit à La Vie (1986)Google Scholar.