United Nations General Assembly

Imagine this: Fighting everywhere you look. There are families you may see one second, but the next second they have disappeared. Everywhere you look there is evidence of bombs and you can’t have one moment to look away. Syria is the battleground of one of the biggest and most violent civil wars we have seen taken place. There are innocent people that are dying from every side of the conflict. From where I am standing, there is no end to this gruesome event. The president, Bashar al-Asshad…

cold war and the formation of the ICTY and ICTR. The author argues in this book that the final draft of the Rome Statute is not without its limitations, but it could be the most important institutional advancement since the establishment of the United Nations. This argument highlights the significance of the ICC in terms of enforcing international human rights law. Schabas observes that the success of the Court will match the growth of international human rights…

1. Introduction UNCED, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil over the period of 12 days in the year 1992. This is also referred to as Rio Summit or Earth Summit. Magnitude and scale of this meet was so huge that 172 countries participated including 116 countries which sent head of the states for this. Also more than 2000 representatives from NGO attended this conference. Agenda 21 which was one of the tangible results of this Earth Summit…

World security: The United Nations World War II left behind complete devastation in Europe and Japan; entire economies had collapsed, people were starving and infrastructure had been destroyed. In an effort to prevent an event, such as a World War from ever happening again, the United States, under President Roosevelt vowed to carry out a plan of peace. The United Nations became an international organization that was founded as a direct result of World War II, in an effort to maintain…

achieve peace and security” was and is the objective of the United Nations, but as we look around today, we can see that this isn’t being accomplished (UN Charter, art 1, sec.1). From mass conflicts in Syria to the terrorist attacks in Paris to the lasting conflicts in Kashmir, can we all undoubtedly say that the United Nations has been successful in sustaining order and peace? The United Nations replaced the ineffective League of Nations and was established after World War II to prevent another…

dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century. However, in this short time period, all of the international system (and thus international law) has interaction with international organizations during the execution of the functions of a nation-state. According to Dr. Mark Janis of the University of Connecticut and Oxford, “…International organizations are creatures of international agreement constituted by sovereign states to accomplish common goals” (Janis 209). There is nothing in…

continuous improvement in world order. The increasing interdependence that nations have with each other makes promoting and maintaining world order a critical issue. Despite the establishment of the UN in 1945, conflicts between disputing nations is a common and devastating occurrence. To approach this issue the international community must cooperate and set standards through intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations. Such conflicts are able to be resolved effectively by using…

to the international community. The United Nations (UN) Security Council, in 1999 failed to authorise actions to spot or curb “ethnic cleansing” in Kosovo. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) took the responsibility to do an aerial bombardment without permission of the UN Security Council which caused a rift in the international community because some saw it as a violation of the prohibition of the Use of Force. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the UN, recalled the failures…

stop the invasion, Britain and France simply used their veto power. However, when the General Assembly met, they forced the removal of the British and French troops from the area. Lester Pearson of Canada came up with an idea that United Nations emergency force be sent into the Canal. The force would consist of troops from countries who were not involved in the conflict. The force was called the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). When the peacekeepers were asked to leave later that year, war…

in the Artic Region. Two strong theories have risen regarding the Artic: ‘’res nullius’’ which suggests that no nation can get full claims in the Arctic, while the second theory, also known as “res communes’’ says that all nations share the same jurisdiction and territorial rights over this region. 158 countries, excluding the United States of America have signed UNCLOS (United Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea) the final treaty most important international consensus that has been created…