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The UN Role In Peacekeeping

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CHAPTER FIVE 5.0THE LEGAL AND OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE UN IN PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS 5.1THE UN PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS Previous in this study we have viewed at the idea of peacekeeping, what it is and how it has developed from a theoretical perspective. This has revealed that the UN has involved in peacekeeping from two Chapters of the UN Charter. They are Chapter VI and Chapter VII. Even though the later appears to have superseded the former, peacekeeping grounded on Chapter VI mandate continues part of the peacekeeping responses available to the UN. Over time peacekeeping has becomemore compound and moved from the traditional, or first generation, peacekeepingto compound or second generation peacekeeping. Even thoughsecond generation …show more content…

The avoidance of unnecessary suffering was the reason for the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).50 The most general expressions of the principle of humanity that forms the basis of all humanitarian law emanates from The Law of the Hague. In April 2003 the Supreme Court of Israel provided a judgement on the principle of unnecessary suffering. In Physicians for Human Rightsand the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights v Major-General DoronAlmoj,Southern Commander and the State of Israel-Minister of Security,51the court held that the use of flechettes52 had not been precisely barred by the Convention on Conventional Weapons and that as a result their use was not opposing to the laws of armed …show more content…

Roosevelt, attributed with its inspiration, denoted to the Declaration as the “international Magna Carta for all mankind.” It was assumed by the United Nations on December 10, 1948 General Assembly resolution 217A82 In its preamble and in Article 1, the Declaration unambiguously decrees the inherent rights of all human beings: “Disrespect and disdain for human rights have ensued in barbarous acts which have annoyed the conscience of mankind, and the arrival of a world in which human beings shall adore freedom of speech and belief and autonomy from fear and need has been decreed as the highest aspiration of the general people....All human beings are born permitted and equivalent in self-respect and privileges.” For the first time in history, human rights were ordered into thirty (30) articles in a single document which member states of the UN guaranteed to indorse. Several of these privileges, in several procedures, are now part of the constitutional laws of democratic

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