A right of all peoples: the internal dimension of self-determination and its relationship with democracy

Authors

  • Paz Andrés Sáenz de Santa María Professor of Public International Law. University of Oviedo (Spain).

Keywords:

Internal self-determination, Democracy, Article 1 of the 1966 International Covenants on Human Rights, Democratic clause, Catalonia

Abstract

Regulated for the first time in article I of the 1966 International Covenants on Human Rights, internal self-determination is configured as a collective human right which is linked to the democracy, whose subject is the people constituted in a state and whose content is related to the rights of political participation and the procedural aspects of the democratic principle. So have reminded the Spanish constitutional bodies that have ruled on the Catalan question. The international order does not go far regarding the internal dimension of self-determination and its generic proclamation.

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Published

2018-12-31

Issue

Vol. 22 (2018)

Section

General Articles

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A right of all peoples: the internal dimension of self-determination and its relationship with democracy. (2018). Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 22, 165-179. https://www.sybil.es/sybil/article/view/1259