CAS IR 573 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Elenore
11 May 2019
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Mussolini"s fascist dictatorship and gas attacks in ethiopia. Germany"s hitler killed his people and then expanded. A country willing to kill its own people is more likely to attack other people. Humanitarian law: goes back to 1864 and is in times of war: the charter: 2nd goal of un is to affirm trust in human rights and freedom. Article 56: universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. The very act of joining un means that nations abide to treat everyone properly: mandate and trust territories: powers that administer areas in behalf of. Palestine: un committee on non-self-governing territories: art 75 (a, universal declaration of human rights: chaired by elenore roosevelt adopted by ga in 1948. Weakness is that it is a resolution in ga, 48 nations then, 8 abstained from voting 6 communist, 1 saudi arabia and south.
