Chapter: ''Anachronistic As Colonial Remnants May Be...' Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders As a Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial Territories' from book: Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives

• Автор: Ralph Wilde (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Springer Nature 2018
• Серія: The World of Small States
• Предмети: UK administration; British Constitution; Chagos Islands; Bancoult litigation; Colonial territories; Chagos Archipelago; British overseas territories; Mauritius; Decolonization; Chagos litigation
• Онлайн доступ: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the colonial era, it was commonplace for treaties binding on the metropolitan state to be applicable in that state's colonies if the state made a declaration to this effect, via the operation of a 'colonial clause' in the treaty. This reflects concepts of trusteeship-over-people an...