Promoting international law

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Over 300 international treaties, on topics as varied as human rights conventions to agreements on the use of outer space and seabed, have been enacted through the efforts of the UN since its creation in 1945.

1. The world must strive to ensure that the global society of the future is characterized by law, not by lawlessness; by rules that all must respect; by the reality that all, including the weakest, are equal under the law and that none, including the most powerful, is above the law.

1. Publicizing
2. Establishing international legal order
3. Disseminating
4. Appreciating

1. Strengthening implementation of human rights
2. Promoting harmonious international law
3. Establishing international courts
4. Disseminating international humanitarian law

1. Enforcing international law

1. Standardizing international penal law
2. Promoting new laws
3. Monitoring international conventions

1. Lawfulness

1. Agenda 21
2. ASIL Guide to Electronic Sources for International Law