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international citizen”, and the country needs to put in more effort to gain the title. The fact Australia needs to improve may be true, however not meeting UN’s targeted rate does not disqualify Australia from being a “Good international citizen”. If a nation can be treated as a “Good international citizen” only by meeting a UN target, then the title is likely to be purchased rather than gained by its effort of resolving global issues and improve standard of living. Australia may be little…

violations. The response to the 1978 Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia supports this notion. Vietnam’s intervention exposed ‘widespread killings, torture and persecution by the Khmer Rouge’ (Murphy, 1996). However multiple states in the United Nations Security Council ‘held that Vietnam had illegally intervened in Kampuchean internal affairs’ (Arend,1993). When compared with the humanitarian endeavours of the post-Cold War era the Cambodian intervention becomes emblematic of the change…

Does Article 51 of the UN Charter violate the customary law of anticipatory self-defence? Where does the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence fit in? Introduction The United Nations was created to prevent another world war, and to maintain peace and cooperation in the international system. Its predecessor, the League of Nations, failed to maintain peace after the First World War, due to its inability to prohibit the use of force. Learning for this failure, the UN was bolder by establishing…

Kosovo. Regardless of this, they continue to say that although they believe war was unavoidable, it does not mean that more could have been done to help prevent such a situation from occurring. Loretz, et al (1999) suggested that attempts to implement UN sanctions on Kosovo and Milošević’s government, along with the influence of the media may have encouraged further negotiations, with less civilian casualties and displacement. With regards to the Kosovo conflict, it is accepted that humanitarian…

1 Introduction In March the first warrant of arrest was issued for The President of the Republic of Sudan (“Sudan”), Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir (“Al-Bashir”) and the second warrant of arrest in July in connection with allegations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, Sudan between the periods of 2003 to 2005. The International Criminal Court (“ICC”) informed all State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC (“Rome Statute”), to which South Africa is a party…

2.Mediation We think, that mediation is also important.The United Nation’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations should send a representative, at least, 3 to 5 representative.They will act as the mediator between Kachin people and the government.They’ll listen to them and discuss the conflict and make a temporary…

started to cooperate with one another in terms of politics, economics, and security in order to promote the prosperity and peace of their territories. Particularly, The Kingdom of Cambodia, one of the countries that suffered from experience of colonialism, has strengthened the international relation with one of the superpowers known as the People’s Republic of China. Thus, analyzing about the politics, economics, and security between both countries is the significant implication of Sino-Cambodia…

Reaction to Bloody Sunday Civil Rights are the basic human rights that the citizens possess of social and political freedom and equality and are often considered the pillars of society and culture. In her article, Hierarchies of Discrimination: The Political, Legal and Social Prioritisation of the Equality Agenda in Northern Ireland, Angela Hegarty defines the Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which states, “all persons are equal before the law and…

intervention is legal, it will be controlled, carefully planned, and done to an international legal standard. NATO has intervened in both Kosovo and Libya over the past 16 years, however only one of these interventions was deemed to be “legal” by the UN Security Council (UNSC). The UNSC found…

seen significant civilian deaths, especially the First World War and the Mexican-American War, but most of those deaths were indirectly from diseases and starvation as a result of foreign exposures and blockades. Despite the establishment of the United Nations, the Cold War has morally placed us even further back, with two powerful civilizations with enough military might to literally wipe…