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  • 2 - The Content of the Right to Life

  • from Part I - Overview of the Right to Life under International Law
  • Stuart Casey-Maslen, University of Pretoria
  • Foreword by Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria
  • Book:
    The Right to Life under International Law
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 21-64

  • Summary

    This chapter describes the substantive and procedural components of the right to life under international law. It discusses the nature of arbitrary deprivation of life, as well as the duty to investigate all suspicious death, which is integral to the right to life, at the least when read in conjunction with the duty to protect life.

  • 32 - The Right to Life and State Responsibility

  • from Part IV - Accountability
  • Stuart Casey-Maslen, University of Pretoria
  • Foreword by Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria
  • Book:
    The Right to Life under International Law
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 611-628

  • Summary

    State responsibility is at the heart of international human rights law. With respect to the right to life, the focus is on accountability for severe ill-treatment or a negligent or wilful failure to protect life against specific threats. But while responsibility for arbitrary deprivation of life by State agents remains central, also increasingly demanding of attention is compliance with the duty to fulfil the right to life, by reducing poverty, alleviating hunger, malnutrition, and disease, lowering the rate of accidents, and tackling pollution and climate change. Failure to do so may sustain alleged violations of the right to life and ground the responsibility of culpable States.