International reservation to human rights conventions

Abstract

The international arena is witnessing an increasing interest in human rights, given that the latter is the goal of both internal and international regulation, and after the measures for the protection of human rights showed their inadequacy within the internal sphere of the state, the search for their protection began at the international level through international treaties concluded by states, which entails obligations and restrictions on the powers of the state, and because states often give priority to their internal interests to be bound by a treaty whose terms cannot be agreed upon, so reservation was the way out to avoid international division and reach international consensus, where the state can resort to reservation when some of the provisions of these treaties conflict with its interests .

Undoubtedly, this situation is better than excluding the reserving state or not participating in an international convention on human rights, and given the specificity of those conventions, the latter has established bodies specialized in deciding on the validity of reservations made by States to the provisions of these conventions.