Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-85
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Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
First Century ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Fourth World ◽  
Twenty First Century

A Study in Social Guilt

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Fred de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Elemental Form

It is essential that the international community should follow up present major undertakings to help Third World countries achieve economic self-sufficiency. How ever, the ordinary man or woman, confronted with the bewildering mass of eco nomic formulations and technicalities employed in the approaches to a new inter- notional economic order, may be forgiven for wondering where the individual comes in. There is a danger that the means (international economic equality) may become more important than the ends (the satisfaction of basic human, i.e. indivi dual, needs and rights). A Third World journalist who was present at the Seventh special Session of the UN General Assembly and a participant in the 1975 Dag Hammarskjold Third World Journalists' Seminar suggests that the success of the joint endeavour will depend on the extent to which the collaborators understand the human problems involved in any exercise of give and take, and here he presents the problem in its most elemental form, in a sort of real-life allegory drawn from an experience in his own country, an essay in awakening the collective conscience of humanity.

UN General Assembly Dialogues on the Responsibility to Protect and the Use of Force for Humanitarian Purposes

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-332
Author(s):  
Pınar Gözen Ercan
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
First Century ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Future ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Twenty First Century

Bringing into focus the two formal debates on the Responsibility to Protect that took place in 2009 and 2018, this article identifies the approaches of member states towards the humanitarian use of force by locating it in the UN’s deliberations on R2P. To this end, the article compares and contrasts country statements in order to trace states’ general approach towards humanitarian intervention on the basis of their reflections on R2P. Following from this, the article examines whether or not states’ approaches to humanitarian intervention have been transforming in the twenty-first century, and evaluates how the humanitarian use of force is perceived in relation to the R2P framework that was embraced by the member states of the UN General Assembly in 2005, and how this affects the future of R2P.

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