THE PRINCIPLE OF THE "MORE •FAVORABLE PROVISION" AS THE RULE FOR RESOLVING CONFLICTS BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES

Abstract

Article 30 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties lays
down general rules for resolving conflicts between treaties. The said
Article does rules to be applied to all treaties. Subsequent to the
adoption of the Vienna Convention, some scholars suggested that the
provisions of Article 30 were not appropriate for resolving conflicts
between human rights treaties and, therefore, a special rule was
needed. The rule dvanced in this regard was the principle of the "more
favorable provision". The present article attempts to describe the
content of this principle and to evaluate its practial significance