At least fifteen million people each year is forced to leave their homes following the consequences of development projects, such as creation of large dams, urbanization and re-urbanization, development of communication networks, mining and transportation of resources and even the conservation...

Adjusting the legal status, and support policies for migrant workers is an issue on the agenda of international institutions for nearly a hundred years. The first efforts to protect foreign workers have been taken during the first session of the International Labour Conference in 1919. In the...

Rising sea level and wasteful desertification are considered the most significant consequences of climate change, which may affect the everyday life of many citizens of our planet in the near future. Despite the alarming reports rising sea level to this date has not been a major social problem....

The article is devoted to the biography and scientific career of professor Krystyna Marek (1914-1994), an outstanding Polish expert in the field of public international law and international relations, associated with the academic institutions of Switzerland. The biography of Krystyna Marek is a...

Presented book is the first comprehensive publication which examines the impact of climate change on the legal situation of small island nations such as the Marshall Islands. Problems affecting these nations touching their legal situation in a very different way than in the case of large...

The Montevideo Convention of the Rights and Duties of States (1933) codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international law and laid down the five requirements for statehood which are often summarized as 'the principle of effectivity': (a) permanent...

The Montevideo Convention of the Rights and Duties of States (1933) codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international law and laid down the five requirements for statehood which are often summarized as 'the principle of effectivity': (a) permanent...

Dans le contexte de l’actuelle communauté internationale et des relations internationales actuelles, en plein changement et de grande complexité, le droit international public se trouve en plein processus de renouvellement et d’accentuation de son caractère humanitaire. Il apparaît comme...