scholarly journals Remedies for Harm Caused by UN Peacekeepers

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Rashkow
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Member States ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Dual Objectives ◽  
Do So

Since the creation of the United Nations, the need for the Organization to enjoy immunity from the juris-diction of Member States has been widely recognized as necessary to achieve its important and far ranging purposes. However, it has also been understood that this immunity was not intended to shield the Organization from responsibility as a “good citizen” on the world stage to respond to justifiable claims against the Organization by third parties resulting from the activities or operations of the Organization. The United Nations has generally achieved these dual objectives, although two recent situations in the peacekeeping context have raised questions about whether it continues to do so, namely the cases involving the Mothers of Srebrenica and the Haiti Cholera victims.

scholarly journals 1990, International Literacy Year

1970 ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Member States ◽  
International Literacy ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Year 2000

The moment the United Nations declared 1990 as International Literacy Year, the international literacy movement began to consider how the year could strenghten the movement in every corner of the world. The U.N. plan of action is to "help member states in all regions to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000".

scholarly journals Sustainable Finance and the 2030 Agenda: Investing to Transform the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10505
Author(s):  
María Mar Miralles-Quirós ◽  
José Luis Miralles-Quirós
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Member States ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
The United Nations

On 25 September 2015, the member states of the United Nations approved an initiative in New York called “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” [...]

scholarly journals Introduction: Looking Back to Look Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Margaret P. Karns
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Member States ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Looking Back

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 1945 invites us to look back at the achievement of creating this new organization even before the guns had fallen silent in World War II. It also prompts us to ask: Where is the organization today? How well has it fulfilled and is it still fulfilling the high ideals of its Charter? Even more importantly, how confident can we be that what has grown into the complex UN system will not just survive but also provide its member states and the peoples of the world with the organizational structures, resources, and tools needed to address twenty-first century challenges?

Security Council Resolution 1373 and the Constitution of the United Nations

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW HAPPOLD
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Legal Order ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Do So

In Resolution 1373 the Security Council laid down a series of general and abstract rules binding on all UN member states. In doing so, the Council purported to legislate. This article discusses whether it is entitled to do so. In the light of the Charter and the past practice of United Nations organs, it argues that the Council can only exercise its Chapter VII powers in response to specific situations or conduct. In enacting Resolution 1373 the Council acted ultra vires. The article looks at the circumstances in which such an extension of the Security Council's powers might be acceptable, but concludes that unilateral attempts by the Council to legislate would be destructive of the international legal order.

The International Civil Service: Historical Development and Potential for the 21st Century

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udoh Elijah Udom
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
International System ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

By-products of World War I and II were the creation of the League of Nations (1919) and subsequently the United Nations (1945). The primary objective of both these global organizations (past, present and future) has been to make the world a better place for humanity. Principally, this has meant working with member states to prevent wars and to carry out humanitarian activities wherever they are needed. Right from the time of the League of Nations, carrying out global mandate of this nature necessitated the creation of international civil service (ICS) to be composed of competent men and women, to assist the world public service to achieve it global mandate. This article argues that ICS is an indispensable instrument of the orderly government of mankind, and must be preserved. The importance of ICS has never been so crucial than today when the world socio-political landscape is more turbulent than in the 1940s when both the ICS and the United Nations were created. The article begins by tracing the history of the ICS from 1919 to the present. It examines the principles of ICS enunciated by the Council of the League of Nations In 1920 and enshrined in the U.N. Charter 25 years later. Here again, the sanctity of the ICS, argued in this article, depends upon upholding these principles by all players in the international system.

scholarly journals BASIS FOR PROPOSAL OF ENFORCEMENT OF THE FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT IN VIETNAM

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-132
Author(s):  
Tuan Quoc Banh
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
International Experience ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

Through analyzing the formation and development of doctrine of state immunity and the international experience in creating laws to concretize the contents of immunity right, such as the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property 2004 and national act of typical nations in the world, the author clarifies theoretical basis for the creation of the foreign sovereign immunities act in Vietnam as well as proposes some fundamental issues concerning the content of the act.

Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-167
Author(s):  
Teresa F Mayr
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Member States ◽  
Robust Approach ◽  
Accountability System ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

The value of resorting to the flexible concept of experts on mission is strongly engrained in the United Nations’ pursuit of its institutional mandate. However, the discretion left to the Organization in the process is a potential source of disputes with its member states. Besides the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, both the protection and the accountability system of experts has undergone little development since the creation of the United Nations. This article attempts to build the necessary framework for such a system, including by discussing its theoretical underpinnings as well as creating a hierarchy of authorities to settle disputes involving experts on mission. It departs from current ad hoc practices and advocates for a more robust approach that is based on the treaty text of the 1946 Convention but guided by a more realistic understanding of the role of experts.

National Policies and Attitudes Toward the United Nations

1952 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
World War ◽  
National Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Police Action ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Short Time

Seven years have passed since the UN Charter was signed in San Francisco in the month of June 1945. In that short time, events have disproved some of the most important assumptions about the postwar world on which the 1945 decisions were based.Efforts have been made, notably in the improvisations of the Korea police action, in the creation of the Interim Committee, and in the Uniting for Peace Resolution, to adapt the structure conceived at San Francisco so that it would more closely meet the needs of the world as it emerged from the crucible of World War II.

World Meteorological Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-330
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
World Meteorological Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

On March 23, 1950, the Convention of the World Meteorological Organization came into force. The convention had been opened for signature in Washington on October 11, 1947.The convention provided for the creation of a World Meteorological Organization as a specialized agency of the United Nations; its basic objectives would be to coordinate, standardize, and improve international meteorological activities, and to encourage “an efficient exchange of weather and other meteorological information in the aid of human activities.” The new group was to continue the activities of the semi-official International Meteorological Organization, which had functioned since 1878.

6. Resolution of the General Assembly on Permanent Missions to the United Nations, December 3, 1948.

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations

CONSIDERING that, since the creation of the United Nations, the practice had developed of establishing, at the seat of the Organization permanent missions of Member States,CONSIDERING that the presence of such permanent missions serves to assist in the realization of the purposes and principles of the United Nations and, in particular, to keep the necessary liaison between the Member States and the Secretariat in periods between sessions of the different organs of the United Nations,CONSIDERING that in these circumstances, the generalization of the institution of permanent missions can be foreseen and that the submission of credentials of permanent representatives should be regulated,

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