Chapter: '‘Anachronistic As Colonial Remnants May Be…’ Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders As a Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial Territories' from book: Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory: Legal Perspectives

In the colonial era, it was commonplace for treaties binding on the metropolitan state to be applicable in that state’s colonies if the state made a declaration to this effect, via the operation of a ‘colonial clause’ in the treaty. This reflects concepts of trusteeship-over-people and civilizationa...

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Main Author:	Ralph Wilde
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Nature 2021
Subjects:	JV1-9480 UK administration British Constitution Chagos Islands Bancoult litigation Colonial territories Chagos Archipelago British overseas territories Mauritius Decolonization Chagos litigation bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies
Online Access:	26920
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