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claiming the lives of over half a million Tutsis. Three quarters of Rwanda’s Tutsi population was killed in just three months. The genocide ended when a Tutsi rebel group, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), overthrew the Rwandan army and government. (United Human Rights, 1) The government was left to decide how to put the country back together and how to deal with bringing justice to the…

presented to the international community. The Serbians started to commit atrocities, and after diplomatic efforts had failed, NATO intervened through the use of bombings to stop the conflict even though they did it without the approval of the UN Security Council in fear of a Russian veto. And so the question rose, was it right for them to intervene to stop the systematic abuse of human rights ignoring the international laws? Years later after this conflict had happened and not getting closer to…

that article. The positivists also are not able to explain state and UN actions and practice. They declare that the Charter has explicitly prohibited intervention yet states have not been deterred from extra-UN humanitarian intervention. The United Nations has never clearly declared these interventions as illegal. Furthermore, opinio juris among the states regarding…

Over a decade ago the United Nations Security Council acknowledge through the creation of Resolution 1325 the changing nation of warfare in which civilians are increasingly targeted, and women continue to be excluded from participation in peace processes. Most people view women as simply victims of civil war in their countries. However, that is not always the case for majority women. Women are critical actors in peace building. The end of the Cold War era of international politics was…

In 2013 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights passed a resolution 23/13 which reinforced that “state would adopt specific measures to protect and preserve the rights to life and security of people with albinism, as well as their right not to be subject to torture and ill treatment, and ensure their access to adequate health care, employment…

The United Nations is the association of almost every country in the world. It is thus an international association. In its preamble it states that its aim is to end the war, to proclaim its faith in human rights and in justice between countries, to develop social progress and work for tolerance. Moreover, the goal of the Security Council is “to maintain international peace and security” and also “to develop friendly relations between nations”. These principles promote the Liberal Peace theory.…

as their was in fact a great discrepancy regarding the intervening powers such as the United Nations lack of involvement in the time that the Rwandan Genocide was taking…

rather than hiring militant groups, which would be labeled as mercenaries, they hire “Private Security Companies” to carry out specific tasks.This prompts the authors to say that more regulations should be set into place by the same international organizations that hire these groups, in order to place accountability on the people they hire. They then conclude the article with hope, as the Human Rights Council of the UN has…

Enrique’s Journey Reflection The United States has a wealthy economy with the GDP per capita being $54,600 which places the US 19th in the world compared to other countries economy. The US also has a decent government and a great military. Although the United States has such wonderful things going for them, they still have an immense problem; Immigration. Immigration has enveloped the US where over one million people come into America legally each year, while numerous come into America by…

could not be dealt with on an inconsistent, ad hoc basis, resulting in the making of the doctrine Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P was introduced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001, and endorsed by United Nations (UN) member states during the 2005 World Summit. The doctrine affirmed the collective responsibility to protect when “national authorities are manifestly failing to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and…