Some Problems Related with Reservations to International Treaties: Focus on Human Rights Treaties

Abstract

Briefly, the writer basically explores whether the rules of reservations available in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and other customary international law are compatible with the nature, objects and purposes as well as protection of human rights treaties. Specifically, the writer argues that such rules are either inadequate or are not suitable to govern reservations that may be made to human rights treaties. The problems related with lack of appropriate institutions or authorities to interpret rules of reservations and follow up the consequences of reservations made to human rights treaties will be assessed in terms of their impact on the protection of human rights.