The UN Security Council and Human Rights
Published on 27. July 2016
XIII, 181 pages
978-1-349-23701-2 (ISBN)
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The UN Charter establishes six 'principal organs'. Five of these are expressly authorized or permitted to deal with human rights. The single exception is the Security Council, but the Council has increasingly concerned itself with human rights inside sovereign states. This book recounts how this trend has developed in the Security Council, reluctantly at first but since 1989 with some enthusiasm and responsibility. Some Third-World countries are uneasy at this development, fearing that the Security Council, dominated by a single superpower, will interfere in the internal affairs of states without the agreement of the government concerned.
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Sydney D. Bailey
The UN Security Council and Human Rights
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10/1994
Palgrave Macmillan
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