- •1.Historical development of international human rights law
- •2.Nature of human rights. Categories of rights
- •Human Rights of First Generation: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- •Human Rights of Second Generation: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- •Human Rights of Third Generation: Collective Rights
- •3.Protection of human rights at the international (global) level
- •4.Core universal human rights treaties
- •6.Protection of human rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- •Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- •7.The Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Practice and procedure
- •8.The role of the International Court of Justice in the development of human rights protection
- •9.The access of individuals to international justice
- •10.The protection of human rights within the European Union
- •11.The main Council of Europe conventions in the sphere of human rights
- •12.Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights
- •Inter-state cases
- •13.The structure and the composition of the European Court of Human Rights
- •14.Enforcement of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments
- •15.Procedure before the European Court of Human Rights
- •16.Permanent Court of Arbitration and ad hoc arbitrations
- •17.Establishment and work of the Iran – u.S. Claims Tribunal
- •18.Organization and jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- •19.The role of the International Court of Justice in settlement of disputes under the un Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982
- •20.Arbitration tribunals under the Annex VII to the un Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982
- •21.Arbitration tribunals under the Annex VIII to the un Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982
- •22.System of settlement of trade disputes under the 1947 gatt
- •23.Dispute Settlement Understanding of 15 April 1994
- •24.Role of consultations, bon offices, conciliation and mediation for dispute settlement in gatt/wto.
- •25.Work of wto Dispute Settlement Body. Procedure in the panels
- •27.General characteristic of settlement of disputes in the Commonwealth of Independent States
- •28.Organization and jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice
- •29.Organization and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
- •30.Organization and jurisdiction of the international criminal tribunals ad hoc established by the un Security Council
- •31.Definition and applicability of international humanitarian law
- •32.Protected persons and objects under international humanitarian law
- •33.Protection of wounded, sick and shipwrecked under international humanitarian law
- •34. Protection of prisoners of war under international humanitarian law
- •35. Protection of civilians under international humanitarian law
- •36.Main rules of international humanitarian law concerning means and methods of warfare
- •37.War crimes under international humanitarian law: development and modern system
- •38.Genocide as a crime under international law
- •39.Crimes against humanity under international law
- •40.Aggression as a crime under international law
- •41.Main stages of the international criminal procedure
- •43.Main institutions of international commercial arbitration
- •44.The arbitration agreement of parties to an international commercial contract
- •45.Laws and rules applicable to international commercial arbitration
27.General characteristic of settlement of disputes in the Commonwealth of Independent States
The Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States is a judicial organ which was formed in order to provide exercising of its economic commitments by the participating states.
Structure of the Court
The Economic Court discharges its duties as a full panel of Economic Court, but it also may form the Economic Court collegiums and convoke the Plenum of the Economic Court.
The competence of the Economic Court is determined by the rules of the CIS Charter and the Provision on the Economic Court, approved by the Agreement on the status of the Economic Court.
According to the article 32 of the CIS Charter, the Court is empowered to settle disputes which can appear in the fulfillment of economic commitments within the framework of the CIS, to interpret provisions of international agreements and the CIS acts related to the economic issues, to settle other disputes related to its jurisdiction by the CIS participating states. In accordance with the article 3 of the Provision on the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Court settles interstate economic disputes: which appear in the fulfillment of economic commitments, provided by the CIS international agreements, decisions made by the Council of the Heads of States, the CIS Council of the Heads of Governments and its other institutions; on the correspondence of statutory and other acts of participating states, passed on economic issues, international agreements and other acts of the CIS.
In accordance with the article 5 of the Provision on the Economic Court, the Court is also empowered to interpret: international agreements, another CIS acts and its institutions; acts of legislation of the former SSR for the period of its mutually agreed enforcement, including those about permissibility of enforcement of such acts, as the acts which do not contradict international agreements and passed on its basis another CIS acts. Such interpretation is carried out in taking decisions on particular cases, and also special requests.
The right of access to the Economic Court . In accordance with the Provision on the Economic Court, states concerned represented by its competent organs, and also CIS institutions have the right to go to the Court for consideration of disputes.
The Economic Court is not empowered to consider disputes or requests for interpretation, introduced by economic agents or natural persons. At the same time in the Court’s practice were considered such kind of requests, which were taken to the Court indirectly, through the competent organs of states and CIS institutions.
Status of the Court’s decisions
According to the Provision on the Economic Court subsequent to the results of consideration of disputes the Economic Court makes decision, where the fact of law infringement, by participating state, of international agreement or CIS act or act of the CIS, its institution, is ascertained. Then some measures, which are recommended for such state in order to eliminate the infringement and its consequences, are defined. When the Economic Court of the CIS makes a decision, the state, concerning the decision being made, provides its execution. Thus, the legal force is not determined straight by constituent documents of the Court. In the literature, there is an opinion that the Court’s decisions have binding character with regard to legal qualification of aspects of the case and the character of recommendation with regard to the measures on elimination the infringement and its consequences undertaken by the state.