ABSTRACT
This chapter examines integration of human rights standards into Council decisions within the framework of the element. It ensures that International human rights law is most relevant to Council responses to perceived threats to the peace. The Council members themselves had already recognised by the mid-1990s that sanctions could not be imposed in isolation of consideration for humanitarian concerns; references to ensuring that humanitarian concerns were addressed prior to the imposition of sanctions were already emerging during discussions. The Council's human rights and humanitarian intervention record is selective, as discussed, and with respect to its efforts to tackle the peripheral issues of human rights in post-conflict states it also lacks full engagement. This component of the rule of law compliance with international human rights norms addresses whether the Security Council, feels itself bound by the principles of international human rights law in its decision-making process.
