Conclusion

The Rohingya ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
Nasir Uddin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Education Fund ◽  
Practical Proposal ◽  
Arab League

The concluding chapter discusses the existing scholarship on the potential solution of the Rohingya problem with a critical examination of the roles of regional political dynamics, South and Southeast Asian geopolitics, bilateral and multilateral interstate relations, and the roles of the global communities such as the United Nations (UN) (and its organs like the UNHCR and United Nations International Children’s Education Fund [UNICEF]), IOM, International Labour Organization (ILO), European Union (EU), Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the Arab League. This chapter attempts to explain some practical issues stemming from the field through ethnographic studies regarding how the Rohingyas think of changing their vulnerable and miserable lives in Bangladesh and Myanmar. It ends with a practical proposal, echoing what the author has learned on the ground from his interaction with hundreds of Rohingyas, that is, repatriation could be the enduring and sustainable solution of the Rohingya crisis, but it should be done following three conditions: legal recognition, social safety, and human dignity.

Origins of the United Nations

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Justin Morris
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
World Organization

This chapter analyzes the transformational journey that plans for the United Nations undertook from summer 1941 to the San Francisco Conference of 1945 at which the UN Charter was agreed. Prior to the conference, the ‘Big Three’ great powers of the day—the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom—often struggled to establish the common ground on which the UN’s success would depend. However, their debates were only the start of the diplomatic travails which would eventually lead to the establishment of the world organization that we know today. Once gathered at San Francisco, the fifty delegations spent the next two months locked in debate over issues such as the role of international law; the relationship between the General Assembly and Security Council; the permanent members’ veto; and Charter amendment. One of modern history’s most important diplomatic events, its outcome continues to resonate through world politics.

scholarly journals The United Nations: Implications of Soft Power

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Sara Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Cold War

The United Nations is often looked to for guidance in conflict prevention and intervention, but its lack of hard power has proven to be extremely limiting. Although the United Nations has been a major improvement from the League of Nations, its ability to maintain world peace is restricted by the aspirations of its member states. The Security Council is especially significant, made up of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China and Russia. Each state in the Security Council has the ability to veto any initiative proposed by the United Nations. Additionally, the United Nations cannot take action without leadership from one or more of its states, and many states are hesitant to sacrifice their military resources even in the event of major human rights violations. This hesitancy to intervene is especially evident in the case study of the Rwandan genocide, but can also be seen in the Cold War and the Syrian Civil War, amongst other conflicts.

Trusteeship Council

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-254
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
The United Kingdom

The thirteenth session of the Trusteeship Council was held at United Nations headquarters from January 28 to March 25, 1954, with Leslie K. Munro (New Zealand) as president. After adopting an agenda of eighteen items, the Council appointed China, Haiti, New Zealand, and the United States as members of the Standing Committee on Administrative Unions, and China, France, Haiti, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States as members of the Committee on Rural Economic Development of the Trust Territories. The latter committee was not scheduled to meet during this session.

Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-514 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Director General ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Soviet Union

The second session of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) was held in London from April 5–14, 1961. Mr. W. L. de Vries, Director-General of Shipping in the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, was elected President of the session and Mr. Ove Nielson, Secretary-General of IMCO, acted as secretary. The Assembly elected Argentina, Australia, India, and the Soviet Union to fill out the sixteen-member Council on which Belgium, Canada, France, West Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States were already represented. The Assembly: 1) established a Credentials Committee consisting of Canada, Japan, Liberia, Poland, and Turkey; 2) adopted a budget for 1962–1963 of $892,-350; 3) approved Mauritania's application for membership by a two-thirds vote following the rule that non-members of the United Nations had to be approved by such a vote after recommendation by the Council; and 4) in view of the advisory opinion of June 8, 1960, of the International Court of Justice to the effect that the Maritime Safety Committee was improperly constituted, dissolved the committee and elected Argentina, Canada, France, West Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Liberia, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States to the reconstituted committee. The Assembly during its second session also approved an expanded work program submitted by the IMCO Council including new duties connected with international travel and transport, with special reference to the simplification of ship's papers. The Assembly asked IMCO to study the arrangements for the maintenance of certain light beacons used for navigation at the southern end of the Red Sea which were being maintained by the United Kingdom with the help of the Netherlands. Also under consideration was a new convention on the safety of life at sea submitted to the Assembly by a Conference on Safety of Life at Sea and containing a number of recommendations to IMCO on studies relating to such matters as ship construction, navigation, and other technical subjects on safety at sea. The Assembly decided that in conjunction with United Nations programs of technical cooperation the UN should be informed that IMCO was in a position to provide advice and guidance on technical matters affecting shipping engaged in international trade.

Indonesia, the United Nations and Malaysia

1965 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Green
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
World Opinion ◽  
The United Nations

Ever since its establishment Indonesia has been notorious for its disregard of international law and world opinion as expressed through the United Nations. The recent policy of confrontation to crush Malaysia is merely the culmination of a series of posturings by Asia's sawdust Caesar.As long ago as early 1945, in the latter days of the Japanese occupation, Soekarno was outlining his views of the Indonesia to be. In February and May of that year he participated in a conference of Indonesian nationalists summoned by the Japanese to discuss the State to be created. Soekarno spoke in a way that is more expected of predatory imperialists than of anti-colonialists believing in selfdetermination. Like Mussolini, who was always harking back to ancient Rome, Soekarno referred to an ancient empire of the Middle Ages which he wished to see revived. Indonesia was to be a restoration of this, consisting not merely of the Dutch colonies which the Japanese occupied, but also of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Borneo, Brunei, the Philippines and southern Thailand. In those days at least, Soekarno paid lip service to both international law and the realities of a political situation, recognising that in so far as Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines were concerned there might be difficulties with the United Kingdom and the United States.

1986 UNAT Elections

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 720-721
Author(s):  
T. M. F.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

The United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT) has elected Herbert Reis of the United States, a former Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, as its Second Vice-President for the coming year. Mr. Reis has served on the tribunal for 5 years. Samar Sen of India and Arnold Kean of the United Kingdom were elected President and First Vice-President of the tribunal, respectively.

Can the Spread of Nuclear Weapons Be Stopped?

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. M. Burns
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Atomic Weapons ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Intractable Problems ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Set Up

Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons is one facet of the problem of preventing nuclear war, a problem which has engaged the statesmen of the world ever since the dust of the Nagasaki explosion settled. In the Truman-Attlee-King declaration of November 15, 1945, the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Prime Minister of Canada proposed that the United Nations set up a commission to study how atomic energy could be controlled so as to limit its use to peaceful purposes, how atomic weapons could be eliminated from national armaments, and how safeguards could be set up so as to ensure that all nations would comply widi the obligations which they undertook to these ends. Thus fell to the United Nations one of the most intractable problems of international organization, a problem which might be looked on as the creation of a new sphere of international law.

Arab League

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-572
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Arab League ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Regular Session

The 23d regular session of the Council of the Arab League met in Cairo from March 27 to 31, 1955; it approved, among other matters, Yemen's request for discussion of its dispute with the United Kingdom. During the session, the League's Political Committee approved the Secretariat's report on the harsh treatment of Arabs living in Israel and recommended that the United Nations consider the matter.

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