The Security Council and the Protection of Human Rights

2004 ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

Human rights in Iraq's transition: the search for inclusiveness

2008 ◽  
Vol 90 (869) ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
John P. Pace
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

AbstractThe aftermath of the invasion of Iraq set unprecedented challenges to the United Nations in the political and in the human rights spheres. Since the first involvement of the United Nations under Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003), the United Nations, through its assistance mission (UNAMI), has provided support to the process of transition from a military occupation resulting from an unlawful invasion to a fully sovereign and independent state, an objective yet to be fully achieved. The article looks at this trajectory from the angle of the involvement of the Security Council, the legal context, the protection of human rights and the striving for reconciliation, sovereignty and inclusiveness.

Forceful Intervention for Protection of Human Rights in Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Kuwali
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Enforcement Action ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations (UN) obliges States to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the UN. The formulation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter gives room to argue that military intervention for purposes of protecting human rights is not covered in the prohibition if it does not threaten the territorial integrity or political independence of a State, especially since promotion of human rights is one of the purposes of the UN under Article 1(3) of the Charter. However, the majority of commentators argue that the Charter prohibits any unilateral use of force and the travaux préparatoires leave no doubt that the terms ‘territorial integrity’ and ‘political independence’ were included not to qualify an absolute prohibition of the use of force but rather as intensifiers to emphasize the protection of States from acts of aggression. The purpose of inserting the phrase ‘or in any other manner inconsistent with’ in Article 2(4) was not to open the door to implicit exceptions from the rule but to make the prohibition watertight. Thus, Article 2(4) constitutes general prohibition of use of force in international law, subject only to the two exceptions outlined in the Charter: self-defense under Article 51 and chapter 7 enforcement action by the Security Council. Thus, except in self-defense, the use of force is the preserve of the Security Council. On this basis, any use of force to protect human rights in another State is subject to authorization of the Security Council.

Part 3 The United Nations: What it Does, 22 Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Higgins Dame Rosalyn, DBE, QC ◽  
Webb Philippa ◽  
Akande Dapo ◽  
Sivakumaran Sandesh ◽  
Sloan James
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Security Council ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
The World ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

The UN Charter contains several provisions on human rights. Indeed, one of the purposes of the UN is ‘[t]o achieve co-operation … in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion’. The promotion and protection of human rights is also spread throughout the UN system, from the General Assembly and Security Council in New York, to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council in Geneva, to field presences across the world. This chapter discusses the principal organs involved in the protection and promotion of human rights, including the Human Rights Council and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Also covered are human rights treaties and treaty bodies, human rights conferences, and Geneva–New York relations.

scholarly journals The Myth, the Truth, and What Security Council Resolution 1973 Changed: The Use of Force for the Protection of Human Rights

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Jardón
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Security Council ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Resolution 1973

En este trabajo se evalúa el debate a largo plazo sobre la legalidad del uso de la fuerza para la protección de los derechos humanos. En virtud de una interpretación de la Carta, la intervención humanitaria es, a priori, rechazada como una medida legal para proteger los derechos humanos, pero la legalidad de la autorización del Consejo de Seguridad para el uso de la fuerza por razones humanitarias es argumentada. No obstante, en una interpretación de la Carta de la ONU y un análisis de la práctica del Consejo, el documento propone que las autorizaciones encuentran su límite en el principio de soberanía territorial y el consentimiento del Estado territorial. La autorización para el uso de la fuerza en la resolución 1973 es la primera que fue adoptada sin el consentimiento del Estado territorial, cambiando, por lo tanto, la interpretación de la Carta y la jerarquía de los principios que durante muchos años gobernaron las relaciones internacionales.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights under the 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila ◽  
Rhoda Igweta Murangiri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
National Human ◽  
The Status ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

This article examines the transformation of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and discusses the implications of such transformation on the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. The article is an exposition of the powers of the Commission and their importance to the realisation of the Bill of Rights under the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. This is done from a normative and institutional perspective with particular emphasis on the extent to which the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, 1993) have been complied with. The article highlights the role of national human rights commissions in transformative and/or transitional justice in post-conflict Kenya. It also explores the possible complementary relationship(s) between the KNCHR and other Article 59 Commissions for the better enforcement of the bill of rights.

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