Forging a Public Information Policy for the United Nations

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Cory
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
International Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Framework ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Made In

If there is truth in the assertion that the strength of the United Nations depends upon the support of public opinion within member states, the responsibility of those organs of the United Nations which supervise public information activities of the Secretariat is an important one. To those concerned with the future of international organization an analysis of the scope and limitations of the information programs which have developed in the first six years of the history of the United Nations should be of primary value. What are the problems which national delegates to the United Nations face in making decisions about the way in which an international secretariat should attempt to influence public opinion? What is the process by which such decisions are made in the administrative framework of the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies? What outcomes in terms of increased international cooperation can be expected from the information activities of United Nations Secretariat?

The world’s repository at 75: a history of the United Nations Archives*

Comma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Structures

Seventy-five years ago (1945), the United Nations (UN) was founded in San Francisco by 50 nations. There, a small archives unit served to assemble the first records of the organization; this was the first iteration of today’s Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS). Throughout its history, the fortunes of the UN Archives have waxed and waned, while its role has continuously evolved. Trying to carve out a place for itself within the largest international organization in the world, its physical and administrative structures have undergone profound changes, as has its mission, number of staff, the type of records it holds and its users. This paper examines significant events in the development of the UN Archives, the challenges it has faced and what may be learned from them.

scholarly journals نفرت پر مبنی جرائم کے اسباب اور ان کا تدارک خطبہ حجۃ الوداع اور اقوام متحدہ کے منشور کی روشنی میں

Al-Duhaa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Anwar Ali ◽  
Abdurahman Khan ◽  
Shahid Amin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Free World ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Made In

This research is to explore causes and preventions of different hatred based crimes in the light of Khutba Hajja tul Wida and the Universal Charter of the United Nations for human rights. The farewell sermon of the Holy Prophet at Arafat was during His last hajj (Pilgrimage) entitled as “Khutba Hajja-tul-Wida”. This address was full of advices and instructions not only for the audiences but for the whole humanity. This address is the first comprehensive charter of internationalization in the history of the human. Some of the crimes and their causes like injustice, racism, favoritism, caste and family differences, revenge, rebellion, interest based economy, corruption, killing, terrorism are common in all the countries of the world. This study elaborates that these crimes is the consequences of imbalance in rights and responsibilities. All of us want to acquire our rights but very few people are willing to fulfil their responsibility and duty. The voice and slogans for human rights are raised everywhere around the world but almost these people violate the laws enacted for human rights themselves. Charter of United Nations also stress on the fulfilment of the human rights but till now it could not control the violence, human right violations, terrorism, killing and other crimes all over the world. Therefore all the laws for a crime-free world should be made in the light of Khutba Hajja-tul-Wida to avoid all types of flaw. As we know that all the sayings of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) are revealed by Allah Subhana’hu wa’tala.

Art.27 Depositary

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey-Maslen Stuart ◽  
Clapham Andrew ◽  
Giacca Gilles ◽  
Parker Sarah
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Law ◽  
Made In

This chapter analyses Article 27 of the ATT. The provision designates the Secretary-General of the UN as the Depositary of the ATT. This is in accord with the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which expressly allows the Chief Administrative Officer of an international organization to be designated as the Depositary of a treaty, and for the designation to be made in the treaty itself. Given the fact that the ATT was negotiated within the UN, it was never in doubt that the Secretary-General of the United Nations would be designated the Depositary. The Depositary carries out functions with respect to the Convention, among others to allow states to sign it, as well as to accept and record instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, and accession. The chapter concludes with a brief description of these functions.

International Politics and the Structure of International Organization: The Case of UNRRA

1951 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Problem ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Relief Operations ◽  
Considerable Concern

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), created in November 1943 and dissolved in September 1948, was in some respects unique in the history of international organization. Unlike traditional functional organizations it was not established to deal with some technical problem of common interest but of limited significance. Nor was its creation motivated as was the institution of the League and the United Nations by the hope that it might solve the vast problems of war and peace. Its scope, the management of postwar relief and the caring for displaced persons, was limited but significant. Its decision-making powers within the field of relief operations were broad when compared with the authority of both prior and subsequent functional organizations. Since national influence within the organization had operational, not simply technical orpropaganda, significance, it was not surprising that the structure of the organization should be a matter of considerable concern to its member states. Both in its creation and in its subsequent development thestructure of UNRRA reflected the conflicting interests of the constituent governments in international relief.

The Creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1970 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Krill de Capello
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Organization ◽  
National Committee ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

The history of the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encompasses essentially two international conferences: the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Allied Governments and the French National Committee (CAME) which took pJace in London from 1942 through 1945 and the Conference of the United Nations for the Establishment of an International Organization for Education and Culture, held November 1–16, 1945. The latter conference, called jointly by the governments of France and the United King dom, was partially a result of the former and was also held in London. At this two-week conference UNESCO's constitution was drafted and adopted. In this development a part was played by the founding process of the United Nations whose Charter, adopted at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in June 1945, foresaw the advancement of international cooperation in culture and education. The founding conference of UNESCO considered itself the executor of this mandate. This article will show how the idea of international cultural cooperation was developed during the Second World War at the meetings of CAME, how it was modified by the United States aid policy toward Europe, how it was influenced by French traditions of intellectual cooperation manifested within the framework of the League of Nations, and how it led finally to the creation of a new specialized agency of the United Nations.

A Bifurcated Global Nuclear Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

The very destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes them unusable for ethical and military reasons. The world has placed growing restrictions on the full range of nuclear programs and activities. But with the five NPT nuclear powers failing to eliminate nuclear arsenals, other countries acquiring the bomb, arms control efforts stalled, nuclear risks climbing, and growing awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, the United Nations adopted a new treaty to ban the bomb. Some technical anomalies between the 1968 and 2017 treaties will need to be harmonized and the nuclear-armed states’ rejection of the ban treaty means it will not eliminate any nuclear warheads. However, it will have a significant normative impact in stigmatizing the possession, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons and serve as a tool for civil society to mobilize domestic and world public opinion against the doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 test of the United Nations Security Council

2021 ◽  
pp. 002070202098689
Author(s):  
Bruno Charbonneau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Multilateral Cooperation ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has failed the COVID-19 test, unable to promote or facilitate multilateral cooperation in dealing with the outbreak. This is worrying given its relevance as a principal organ of the United Nations (UN) that could enable or constrain international cooperation and given the need for such cooperation in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The failure of the UNSC to respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the historical limits of the UNSC as a forum for international cooperation. It also suggests that highlighting and debating UNSC reforms are not sufficient or even productive ways to move forward, especially in the context of the challenges that pandemics and climate change represent for global cooperation. It is far from clear if the UN system can change the global structures on which it was built. What does seem clear is that the UNSC is not where one will find the seeds of change for reimagining global order.

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