1. human rights and environmental
Edexcel Politics A-level
Global Politics:
Global governance:
human rights and environmental
Key terms

2. Human rights

3. International law
Law that governs states and other international actors.

4. International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

5. International Criminal Court (ICC)
Organisation that prosecutes individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

6. International tribunals
Organisations set up to prosecute individuals in specific states for the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

7. Human rights
Rights that people are entitled to by virtue of being human.

8. Universal human rights
Rights that apply to people of all societies regardless of cultural or other differences.

9. Humanitarian intervention
Military intervention carried out in pursuit of humanitarian rather than other objectives.

10. Environmental

11. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC)
An international environmental treaty negotiated at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

12. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC)
UN body set up as an internationally accepted authority on climate change.

13. Global commons
Areas and resources that are un-owned and consequently beyond national jurisdiction.

14. Tragedy of the commons
Situation within a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting that resource.

15. Sustainability
The capacity to endure.

16. Sustainable development
Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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