The Newly Independent States, The United Nations, and Some Thoughts on the Nature of the Development Process

1968 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-136
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Sens
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Newly Independent States

scholarly journals Human Rights and World Public Order: A Framework for Policy-Oriented Inquiry

1969 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myres S. McDougal ◽  
Harold D. Lasswel ◽  
Lung-chu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Common ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Newly Independent States ◽  
Rapid Emergence

From the Universal Declaration of Human Eights in 1948, through the adoption of the International Covenants on Human Rights in 1966, and to the Proclamation of Teheran in 1968, the human rights program under the auspices of the United Nations has represented a tremendous collective effort and symbolized the common aspirations of mankind for increasing the protection of all basic human values. This program, as greatly agitated and accelerated by the process of postwar decolonization and the rapid emergence and multiplication of newly independent states, has burgeoned far beyond the contemplation of the founding fathers of the United Nations.

Internal displacement and the conflict in Abkhazia

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin D. Mooney
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The United Nations

AbstractIn the internal displacement crisis arising from the secessionist armed conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, ethnic Georgians are the principal victims. They have been displaced from Abkhazia by a policy of ethnic cleansing which, though perhaps not fully developed at the time of the actual displacement, has rendered the area ethnically homogeneous and certainly succeeded in ensuring that it so remains. This paper focuses on the nature and effectiveness of the international community's response to the ethnically-motivated displacement and resulting demographic manipulation. The mandate and operations of each of the relevant international actors involved, namely the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Military Observers (UNOMIG), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeepers, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), are examined to determine their protection function both separately and collectively. The constraints under which each organization must operate in this situation and concerns regarding Russia's dominance of the CIS operation for the pursuit of its own strategic interests are considered as contributing factors to the lack of effective protection for the internally displaced Georgians and those still at risk of so becoming.

Universal Postal Union

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-374
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
International Bureau ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Money Order ◽  
In Transit

The United Kingdom, which as the Mandatory Power in Palestine was also responsible for Palestinian relations with the Universal Postal Union, informed the United Nations Palestine Commission in March 1948 that it could not assume responsibility for mail reaching Palestine after certain specified dates: March 15 for parcel mail, April 15 for letter mail sent by surface routes, April 15 for parcel mail sent to Palestine in transit to countries beyond, and February 29 for money order service. The Commission relayed this information to the International Bureau of the Union, which stated that the Palestine Commission or any agent it chose to appoint during the transitional period prior to the establishment of independent states might enter into relationship with the Union. The Commission instructed its advance party in Jerusalem to determine the best method for establishing emergency postal arrangements.

Moving Away From Paternalism: The New Law on Disability in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agung Wardana ◽  
Ni Putu Yogi Paramitha Dewi
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Substantial Change

In Indonesia, persons with disabilities have long been marginalised in mainstream development policies. The adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (crpd), which was ratified by Indonesia in 2011, has opened new opportunities for persons with disabilities in the country to participate in the development process. In this regard, the first step toward the implementation of the convention domestically has been undertaken through the enactment of Law No. 8/2016 on Persons with Disabilities where the provisions of the convention are directly adopted. This article traces the development of the new law and how it differs from the previous legislation. We find that the new law is moving away from a long-standing paternalistic view toward disability in Indonesia by advancing a rights-based approach. Despite this substantial change, it remains to be seen how the new law would be able to change the challenging conditions of persons with disabilities in the country.

Industrialisation in West Africa—the Need for Sub-Regional Groupings within an Integrated Economic Community

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Barbour
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
African State ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Newly Independent States ◽  
And Training

In the years that have elapsed since the ending of colonial rule, the newly independent states of Africa have been understandably preoccupied with a general resolve to achieve rapid and sustained economic growth. Certain countries have attached especial importance to investment in agriculture, others have devoted high proportions of their resources to material infrastructure, to the exploitation of minerals, or to education and training; whatever the immediate policy pursued, however, there has been general unanimity that at the far end of the development process each African state hopes to possess a growing number of economically viable manufacturing industries.1 Apart from the material benefits that industrialisation can bring there is a general belief, as Pierre Moussa has put it, that ‘the factory chimney has mythical value; it expresses a people's success on earth, their ability to cope with the modern world’.2

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