Erga Omnes is a legal obligation toward all; ususally used in reference to human rights or environmental issues. An obligation can be legal or moral. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... By natural environment is meant the environment of nature, in contrast to some other environment or external milieu that is man-made (and thus, not natural). Within the biosphere, there exists no straight-forward way to separate what belongs to the natural environment and what does not, partly for the...

The term falls within the International Law Principle of Universality, that is the idea that certain activities are so reprehensible that the rules of jurisdiction are waived so that any state may apprehend an alleged perpetrator and try them under their own jurisdiction. In law, jurisdiction refers to the aspect of a any unique legal authority as being localized within boundaries. ... A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ...

Such crimes might include: piracy, slave trade, operating a "stateless vessel", genocide, and war crimes. Hijacking and terrorism are not widely accepted as part of the erga omnes, however, jurisdiction of such acts has been conferred through other international treaties on the subject (The Hague Convention on Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1971), International Convention Against Taking of Hostages (1979)). A pirate digging for treasure. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, erected in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, London. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Most generally, Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a social identity. ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... Hijacking or highjacking is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit. ... The Oxford English Dictionary defines terrorism as a policy intended to strike with terror those against whom it is adopted; the employment of methods of intimidation; the fact of terrorizing or condition of being terrorized. ... In law, jurisdiction refers to the aspect of a any unique legal authority as being localized within boundaries. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Consequently -- any state has the right to complain of a breach of such universal jurisdiction.