Law & Legal Studies

The Right to International Solidarity

The Right to International Solidarity

This new human right would express the interconnectedness of peoples and generations in recognition of a shared agency and responsibility to cooperate with each other to address pressing global common challenges.

Author

Vesselin Popovski, Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Summary

This article argues for the need to codify and implement a new human right—the right to international solidarity. Similar to the right to peace, the right to development, and the right to clean environment, such a new right would express the interconnectedness of peoples and generations in recognition of a shared agency and responsibility to cooperate with each other to address pressing global common challenges.

Published in: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

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