disasters and responsibility of state in national and international law

Damages caused by disasters in the case of dealing public power with public emergency lead to codification of appropriate legal arrangements to respond the situation properly. In one hand, monitoring government’s measures to prevent misuse of public power endangering individual right in critical times is necessary. On the other hand, public officials’ violations of rule of law principles at crisis lead to their responsibility. Most important standards regarding facing public emergency which should be abided by government are: recognition of exceptional threat based on reasonable circumstances, necessity and proportionality of measures, temporary feature of given measures and non-discrimination in exceptional measures’ implementation and also, violations of government or public officials in national and international cause responsibility.