Essays about: "charter of the united nations"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 34 essays containing the words charter of the united nations.

  1. 6. A trinitarian analysis on how The United Nations Security Council failed to protect Timor-Leste's Independence and Human Rights through political action 1960-1999

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Evelina Skagerlind; [2021]
    Keywords : Timor-Leste; East Timor; United Nations; Security Council; Independence; Human Rights; Colonialism; East Timor Question; Veto; International Relations; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to research how the United Nations (UN) through the Security Council (SC) failed to act politically to protect the independence and human rights of Timor-Leste 1960-1999. 1960 Timor-Leste was acknowledged by the UN as a non-self-governing territory and so remained until the referendum of independence 1999. READ MORE

  3. 7. Child rights : A study of the rights of children in Kenya and violations of the rights of children in Kenya

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

    Author : Najma Ahmed; [2021]
    Keywords : CRC; ACRWC; Kenya; Child Rights; Africa; SDG:s; Violations;

    Abstract : This essay is about children's rights in one African country namely Kenya. It includesinternational documents like the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) andthe regional African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC). READ MORE

  4. 8. “New” Sustainable Peacebuilding? - A Critical Examination of the United Nations Change in Peacebuilding Approach

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Marcus Lindh; [2020]
    Keywords : Peacebuilding; Sustainable Peace; United Nations; Liberal Peace; Critical Peacebuilding; Scandinavian Peace Theory;

    Abstract : Building peace and preventing the emergence of new and existing conflicts is one of the fundamental objectives of the United Nations, seen as deep down as in the charter of the organization. As the United Nations has existed for some time their peacebuilding framework has changed on several occasions, with the most recent change taking place in 2016. READ MORE

  5. 9. A paradigm shift from voluntary to court-ordered climate change mitigation? The potentials and challenges of a human rights-based approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Kimberly de Bruijn; [2020]
    Keywords : international human rights law; public international law; climate change; climate change mitigation; public interest litigation; actio popularis; human rights approach; united nations framework convention on climate change; paris agreement; rule of law; democracy; right to life; right to respect for private and family life; european convention on human rights; african charter on human and peoples rights; american convention on human rights; right to a healthy environment; environmental law; united nations; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The central theme of this thesis is anthropogenic climate change; governments' inability to create an effective, inclusive response mechanism that manages to mitigate anthropogenic emissions; and advocates efforts to coerce States to act by invoking State responsibility in adjudicatory dispute settlement processes. States' failure to act in accordance with scientific risk assessments and to mitigate polluting activities has led underrepresented groups to increasingly lose trust in their respective executive and legislative branches, and, by means of protest, these advocates are now turning to court. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Relationship Between Third-Party Countermeasures and the Security Council’s Chapter VII Powers: Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Amanda Bills; [2019]
    Keywords : public international law; state responsibility law; countermeasures; third-party countermeasures; obligations erga omnes; Security Council; Chapter VII; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis has examined the relationship between third-party countermeasures under the law of state responsibility and UN Security Council enforcement measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. Third-party countermeasures are a concept that refers to the use of countermeasures by a state other than the injured state in response to breaches of obligations erga omnes or erga omnes partes, providing states with ‘a necessary middle ground between war and words’ to enforce the obligations of concern to the international community as a whole. READ MORE