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 m
ade 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 im
pact on the protection of human
rights.