ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hate Speech, Lybia, Darfur
6 Dec 2017
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Conflict studies & human rights - week 12. Investigate potential threat to international peace and security: maintains international peace, military and security resolutions, peacekeeping missions, can refer cases to the international criminal court. Members: 5 permanent members with veto, china, france, russia, united kingdom, united states. Post cold war: 25 vetoes (1990-2012: 10 non-permanent members. Procedure: resolutions (9 members and no vetoes) It can take measures to enforce its decisions, from economic sanctions all the way to authorization of military action: enforce decisions under chapter vii, economic sanctions, arms embargo. International interventions: un peacekeeping forces (100,000 soldiers, 16 missions, central african republic, mali. Legal sources for humanitarian interventions: un charter, the human rights provisions, chapter vii of the united nations charter. The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Chapter vi of the united nations charter: action with respect to threats to the.
