The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose main objectives are stated to be; facilitating cooperation in international law‚ international security‚ economic development‚ social progress‚ human rights‚ and achievement of world peace. The UN delegates these responsibilities to various agencies which include 193 member states. The organization consists of six main bodies as well as several other prominent agencies. The success of the UN‚ measured given their main objectives‚ can
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community and the Srebrenica genocide. Sarajevo: DES. [ 5 ]. United Nations. "Bosnia and Herzegovina: Death Toll." Accessed November 15‚ 2012. http://www.icty.org/sid/10591. [ 6 ]. U.N. Security Council‚ 3199th Meeting. "Resolution 819 [Bosnia and Herzegovina]". 16 April‚ 1993‚ p.14. In Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council 1948 (S/RES/819). Official Record. New York‚ 1993. [ 7 ]. United Nations. "Secretary-General ’s message to ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre
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Ethnic Conflict DBQ Over the course of the years world history has continued to change. New conflicts are constantly developing. In order to keep these conflicts under control special foundations and laws such as the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights have been founded. Despite the creation of the United Nations and the issuance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ conflict has continued in the post-World War II era. The attempts at keeping peace have and have not been
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Evoked by the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992‚ the Bosnian War is a clear representation of ethnic conflict gone horribly wrong. Spanning from 1992 to 1995‚ it demonstrated on of the worst displays of mass ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War II. Mainly perpetrated against Bosniaks by the Serbs‚ the Bosnian War left the country of Bosnia in ruins and left millions displaced and thousands killed. John Moore’s Behind Enemy Lines portrays the final days of the war as an American navigator attempts
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How Effective Is The UN? What Are The Constraints On Its Power? The United Nations‚ (UN) was originally established in 1945 for the purpose to “maintain international peace and security…to cooperate in solving international economic‚ social‚ cultural and humanitarian problems…and to be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in attaining these ends.” In assessing whether or not the UN is an effective organisation‚ it is essential to acknowledge several important features of the establishment
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were up to 100 000 Bosnian’s killed‚ 20 000 to 50 000 women raped and 2.2 million people displaced (BBC‚ 2007). The genocide instances The events in Srebrenica in 1995 included the killing of more than 8‚000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys‚ as well as the mass expulsion of another 25‚000–30‚000 Bosnian Muslim civilians‚ in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ committed by units of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić (Judge Meron.T‚ 2004)
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non-intervention of Rwanda and Srebrenica massacre The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800‚000 people over the course of approximately 100 days‚ in the small East African Nation of Rwanda. This came about because of the longstanding ethic and tensions between the minority Tutsi‚ who had controlled power for centuries‚ and the majority Hutu peoples‚ who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62 and overtaken the Tutsi monarchy The Srebrenica massacre refers to the July
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International Crime -Crimes against Humanity • Using the case study of Srebrenica‚ evaluate the effectiveness of international and domestic legal systems in dealing with crimes against the international community International laws and mechanisms to deal with international crime are vast in number. They aid in promoting common moral and ethical standards to be administered worldwide. Tribunals such as the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal
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time was 43% Muslim‚ 31% Serbian and 17% Croatian.3 April 6‚ 1992‚ Serbs place Bosnian capital‚ Sarajevo under siege and occupy 70% of the country.4 The West do not interfere in the Balkans. April 1993 – UN declares Srebrenica‚ Zeca and Gorazde among 6‚ “Safe areas”.5 Srebrenica was attacked in the summer of 1995‚ UN peacekeepers failed to help.6 Serbian forces separated the Bosniak7 civilians. The women were bussed off to Serb held territory; most of them were raped and sexually assaulted.
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during the Second Congo War‚ which claimed nearly five million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)‚ 1998-2002‚ and in carrying out and distributing humanitarian aid. • Failure to intervene in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre‚ despite the fact that the UN designated Srebrenica a "safe haven" for refugees and assigned 600 Dutch peacekeepers to protect it. • Failure to successfully deliver food to starving people in Somalia; the food was instead usually seized by local warlords. A U.S./UN
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