The Reluctant Door: The Right of Access to the United Nations. By Lief Kr. Tobiassen. (Washington, D. C.: Public Affairs Press, 1969. pp. viii, 413. Index. $8.50.)

1971 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-235
Author(s):  
Michael Reisman
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

Correction

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 898-898
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
New York University ◽  
American Universities ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Right Of Access

The following dissertation was omitted from the bibliography “Doctoral Dissertations in American Universities Concerning the United Nations, 1943–1961,” by Sidney N. Barnett, which appeared in the Summer 1962 (Vol. 16, No. 3) issue of International Organization:Tobiassen, Leif Kr. The Right of Access to the United Nations. New York University, 1959.

The UN Human Rights Obligations and Immunity: An Oxymoron Casting a Shadow on the Transitional Administrations in Kosovo and East Timor

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 105-140
Author(s):  
Julia Werzer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

AbstractOn the basis of the transitional administrations in Kosovo and East Timor, this article analyzes the compatibility of the UN human rights obligations with the wide scope of immunity enjoyed by the organization and its officials. By focusing on the right to a fair trial (and especially the right of access to a court), the author submits that the almost absolute lack of judicial mechanisms to review acts of UN transitional administrations violates the local population's human rights. Although institutions such as an Ombudsperson or a Human Rights Advisory Panel (in Kosovo) have been established, they do not constitute means of protection that are reasonable alternatives to independent and impartial courts. As a corollary, the international responsibility of the United Nations is entailed.

The Reluctant Door. The Right of Access to the United Nations

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 868
Author(s):  
Hilliard A. Gardiner ◽  
Leif Kr. Tobiassen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

The role of contemporary international provisions in reducing violence and discrimination against women

2020 ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Sinan Salah Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic

Violence against women is related to the issue of human rights, especially the importance of the subject in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993, which states the following ((any act characterized by violence based on religion, gender, self or arbitrary deprivation of liberty Whether it occurs in public affairs or private affairs in life, and psychological violence that occurs in the family)), and we note that the most critical societies are the most prevalent of violence against women, although women have the right to equal enjoyment and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms In the political, economic, social, cultural and civil fields, international provisions define the measures that each country should take alongside the specialized agencies and agencies of the United Nations in order to eliminate violence against women

7 Immunity, 7.1 Manderlier v Organisation des Nations Unies and Etat Belge ( Ministre des Affaires Etrangères ), Tribunal Civil de Bruxelles, 11 May 1966, Journal des Tribunaux, 10 December 1966, No. 4553, 121

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Schmitt Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access ◽  
Domestic Law

This 1966 case constitutes one of the first cases in which UN immunity from jurisdiction was challenged. Apart from the question whether the UN had legal personality under domestic law, all other arguments raised by the plaintiff in this case—seeking to restrict UN immunity from jurisdiction—are still debated nowadays before domestic jurisdictions. The Brussels Civil Tribunal notably examined whether the UN’s immunity was conditional upon the latter’s respect of art. VIII, Section 29 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, whether the immunity could be rejected in favour of a human rights argument based on the right of access to justice, and whether it could only be invoked in relation to actions or situations that were necessary for the UN to achieve its goals. Finally, it assessed the existence of a waiver in this particular case.

Reluctant Door: The Right of Access to the United Nations

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Tuttle ◽  
Lief K. Tobiassen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Of Access

Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica v. Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 884-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Katz Cogan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
European Convention ◽  
National Authority ◽  
European Court ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Effective Remedy ◽  
The Right ◽  
Republika Srpska ◽  
Right Of Access

On June 11, 2013, in Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica, a chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that the Dutch courts’ grant of immunity to the United Nations in a case brought by and on behalf of relatives of individuals killed by the Army of the Republika Srpska in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 did not run afoul of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention). Those provisions guarantee, respectively and among other things, the right of access to a court and the right to “an effective remedy before a national authority” if any Convention right is violated. Having found that the challenged decisions accorded with Dutch obligations under the Convention, the chamber declared the application before the Court inadmissible as “manifestly ill-founded” and “rejected” it pursuant to Article 35(3)(a) and 4. The chamber’s decision was unanimous.

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