International political alignment during the Trump presidency: voting at the UN general assembly

This chapter explores the case for a more formalized United Nations parliamentary assembly, including the potential oversight, accountability, and (ultimately) co-decision roles that such a body could play alongside the UN General Assembly. Given difficulties in expecting national parliamentarians to perform such functions continuously, a UN assembly is found to hold greater potential for promoting key UN system aims in the areas of security, justice, and democratic accountability, even as the existing Inter-Parliamentary Union continued to play some important complementary roles. Learning from relevant global and regional parliamentary bodies, the chapter outlines concrete steps toward developing a parliamentary assembly over time, including the creation of a more informal UN network of UN-focused national parliamentarians in the near term.

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The UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: to what extent are human rights and sustainable development mutually compatible in the field of migration?

International Journal of Law in Context ◽

10.1017/s1744552320000294 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 239-252

Author(s):

Elspeth Guild

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Human Rights ◽

General Assembly ◽

Global Compact ◽

Un Global Compact ◽

Agenda 2030 ◽

Development Framework ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Un General Assembly

AbstractIn this contribution, I examine the links between the human rights basis of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and its embeddedness in the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. While the GCM grew out of a development framework, it was rapidly incorporated into the UN human rights system. Even during the negotiation of the GCM, human rights took priority over development. The resistance that was manifested against the GCM on its endorsement by the UN General Assembly was directed not against its development links, but rather concerns about its human rights impact. This paper examines the placing of migration in this dual framework and the ways in which outcomes compatible with both are achievable.

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France Accused: French North Africa before the United Nations, 1952–1962

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777301001059 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 91-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Martin Thomas

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

United Nations ◽

North Africa ◽

General Assembly ◽

Algerian War ◽

North African ◽

Un General Assembly ◽

The United Nations ◽

Nationalist Parties ◽

Major General

In the decade after 1952 France faced sustained United Nations criticism of its colonial policies in north Africa. As membership of the UN General Assembly expanded, support for the non-aligned states of the Afro-Asian bloc increased. North African nationalist parties established their permanent offices in New York to press their case for independence. Tracing UN consideration of French North Africa from the first major General Assembly discussion of Tunisia in 1952 to the end of the Algerian war in 1962, this article considers the tactics employed on both sides of the colonial/anti-colonial divide to manipulate the UN Charter's ambiguities over the rights of colonial powers and the jurisdiction of the General Assembly in colonial disputes.

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The preparation of special sessions of the UN general assembly on disarmament

Paradigms ◽

10.1080/13600829008442984 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

J‐F. Guilhaudis ◽

A.J.R. Groom

Keyword(s):

General Assembly ◽

Un General Assembly

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Special report: UN General Assembly

Environmental Policy and Law ◽

10.1016/s0378-777x(77)80044-9 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 2-3

Author(s):

R GOURTANGUAY

Keyword(s):

General Assembly ◽

Special Report ◽

Un General Assembly

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The Work of the International Law Commission, 2007–2011: Progress and Prospects

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.5305/amerjintelaw.106.2.0322 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 106 (2) ◽

pp. 322-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Donald McRae

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

International Organizations ◽

Armed Conflicts ◽

General Assembly ◽

Un General Assembly ◽

The Law ◽

International Law Commission ◽

Transboundary Aquifers ◽

Law Commission ◽

The Way

On November 17, 2011, the UN General Assembly elected the members of the International Law Commission for the next five years. In the course of the quinquennium that was completed in August 2011 with the end of the sixty-third session, the Commission concluded four major topics on its agenda: the law of transboundary aquifers, the responsibility of international organizations, the effect of armed conflicts on treaties, and reservations to treaties. It was by any standard a substantial output. The beginning of a new quinquennium now provides an opportunity to assess what the Commission has achieved, to consider the way it operates, and to reflect on what lies ahead for it.

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