The United Nations Security Council Sanctions and International Human Rights

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Equitable representation in councils: theory and an application to the United Nations Security Council

We analyze democratic equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a voting body containing all members delegates decision-making to a (time-varying) subset of its members, as describes, e.g., the relationship between the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). We develop a theoretical framework for analyzing democratic equitability in CVGs at both the country and region levels, and for different assumptions regarding preference correlation. We apply the framework to evaluate the equitability of the UNSC, and the claims of those who seek to reform it. We find that the individual permanent members are overrepresented by between 21.3 times (United Kingdom) and 3.8 times (China) from a country-level perspective, while from a region perspective Eastern Europe is the most heavily overrepresented region with more than twice its equitable representation, and Africa the most heavily underrepresented. Our equity measures do not preclude some UNSC members from exercising veto rights, however.

The relationship between Security and Health: A New Paradigm for the United Nations Security Council?

One of the aspects related to biolaw is that related to security and health. In other words, using the expression of relevant authorities on this subject, “the securitization of health” and, those situations connected with the Security Council labour in the last decades, may constitute an interesting subject. Beginning with the role of the UN blue helmets in many countries where the expansion of HIV/AIDS is usual, followed by the expansion of some diseases in Haiti, together with the Ebola “crisis” in 2014 and connected with the efforts of the World Health Organization to fight against the zika...what is the role played by the United Nations Security Council on this field, trying to establish a relationship between security and health?

Resolution of inquiry concerning the U.S. vote in the U.N. Security Council on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories [microform] : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 598, March 12, 21, and 26, 1980.

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Gazes at the monster : courts, NGOs, and the UN Security Council

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Direito, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, 2016.

Women, peace and security as an ASEAN priority

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat and its member states have repeatedly professed their commitment to the protection and advancement of women’s economic and human rights. Such commitments have included the Declaration on the Advancement of Women in ASEAN in 1988, the ASEAN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2004, and the ASEAN Declaration of Human Rights in 2012, as well as the establishment of the ASEAN Committee on Women in 2002 and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Women and Children in 2009. However, none of these regional commitments or institutions expressly take up the core concern of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda set out in United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 in 2000. ASEAN has no 1325 regional action plan and amongst the ASEAN membership, the Philippines is the only state that has adopted a 1325 National Action Plan (NAP). We explore the possible reasons for lack of ASEAN institutional engagement with 1325, outline the case for regional engagement, and suggest specific roles for ASEAN Secretariat, donor governments and individual member states to commit to UNSCR 1325 as a regional priority.

La réforme du conseil de sécurité des Nations-Unies dans l'après-guerre froide, sources de stabilité et de changement d'une organisation intergouvernementale : le comportement des états membres.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

La réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies

L’adoption de la Charte des Nations unies à San Francisco le 26 juin 1945 et son entrée en vigueur le 24 octobre de la même année a matérialisé la volonté des Vainqueurs d'éviter une troisième catastrophe à l'humanité. Cet accord a eu la bénédiction des super puissances et scellé la naissance d'une Organisation à vocation universelle qu'est l'ONU, susceptible de faire asseoir des instruments nécessaires pour pallier aux manquements de la défunte SDN. Aussi, cette naissance est perçue comme le parachèvement de l'évolution du droit international, ayant édifié, non seulement une structure plus solide, mais aussi capable d'encadrer l'usage de la force par les États. Par ailleurs, cet encadrement est confié au Conseil de sécurité, son organe le plus puissant dans la mesure où il est le seul compétent pour constater la violation par un État de ses obligations en matière de respect de la paix et de la sécurité internationales. Cependant, les critiques sont de plus en plus nombreuses à son égard. En effet, dans son ossature actuelle, il paraît obsolète, car n'est pas en phase avec les réalités géopolitiques et économiques du moment. Depuis plusieurs décennies, des propositions de réforme ont été suggérées sans pourtant parvenir à un consensus au niveau des États membres, plus spécifiquement des membres permanents du Conseil. Ce mémoire vise premièrement à effectuer une analyse des différentes propositions puis deuxièmement à présenter une formule de « sortie de crise ». Des deux types de propositions que nous avons identifiés (Groupes de travail vs Groupes d'États), à l'exception de l'équipe « Unis pour le consensus », préconisent à l'unanimité la modification de la catégorie des membres permanents. Notre analyse révèle que les principaux privilèges, à savoir le droit de véto et la permanence au Conseil de sécurité constituent les points d'achoppement de la réforme dans la mesure où leur modification reviendrait à amoindrir les prérogatives du club des cinq. À cet effet, nous courons le risque de nous engager dans une solution utopique. Pour notre part, nous avons souhaité la solution de la « régionalisation de la sécurité », c'est-à-dire, confier les opérations de maintien de la paix et de la sécurité de chacune des régions du monde à son organisation correspondante. Pour y parvenir, il est primordial de renforcer les pouvoirs desdites organisations, afin d'avoir toute l'autonomie nécessaire dans les prises de décisions dans la prévention et la gestion de ces différents conflits régionaux.

Capacity-building workshops on the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the protection of civilians (POC) in armed conflict - Summary Report

In June 2011, a research project team from the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL), Queensland University of Technology, the United Nations University, and the Australian Government’s Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence (APCMCOE) held three Capacity-Building Workshops (the Workshops) on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Protection of Civilians (POC) in Armed Conflict in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, and Jakarta. The research project is funded by the Australian Responsibility to Protect Fund, with support from APCMCOE. Developments in Libya and Cote d’Ivoire and the actions of the United Nations Security Council have given new significance to the relationship between R2P and POC, providing impetus to the relevance and application of the POC principle recognised in numerous Security Council resolutions, and the R2P principle, which was recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 and, now, by the Security Council. The Workshops considered the relationship between R2P and POC. The project team presented the preliminary findings of their study and sought contributions and feedback from Workshop participants. Prior to the Workshops, members of the project team undertook interviews with UN offices and agencies, international organisations (IOs) and non-government organisations (NGOs) in Geneva and New York as part of the process of mapping the relationship between R2P and POC. Initial findings were considered at an Academic-Practitioner Workshop held at the University of Sydney in November 2010. In addition to an extensive literature review and a series of academic publications, the project team is preparing a practical guidance text (the Guide) on the relationship between R2P and POC to assist the United Nations, governments, regional bodies, IOs and NGOs in considering and applying appropriate protection strategies. It is intended that the Guide be presented to the United Nations Secretariat in New York in early 2012. The primary aim of the Workshops was to test the project’s initial findings among an audience of diplomats, military, police, civilian policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and experts from within the region. Through dialogue and discussion, the project team gathered feedback – comments, questions, critique and suggestions – to help shape the development of practical guidance about when, how and by whom R2P and POC might be implemented.

Bridging the gap: Early warning, gender and the responsibility to protect

Women, Peace and Security (WPS) scholars and practitioners have expressed reservations about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle because of its popular use as a synonym for armed humanitarian intervention. On the other hand, R2P’s early failure to engage with and advance WPS efforts such as United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution 1325 (2000) has seen the perpetuation of limited roles ascribed to women in implementing the R2P principle. As a result, there has been a knowledge and practice gap between the R2P and WPS agendas, despite the fact that their advocates share common goals in relation to the prevention of atrocities and protection of populations. In this article we propose to examine just one of the potential avenues for aligning the WPS agenda and R2P principle in a way that is beneficial to both and strengthens the pursuit of a shared goal – prevention. We argue that the development and inclusion of gender-specific indicators – particularly economic, social and political discriminatory practices against women – has the potential to improve the capacity of early warning frameworks to forecast future mass atrocities.