The United Nations and the West

1953 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coral Bell
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The West ◽  
The United Nations

Caribbean Commission

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-166
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
French West Indies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The United Nations

The third session of the West Indian Conference opened at Guadeloupe, French West Indies on December 1, 1948 and closed on December 14, after considering policy to be followed by the Caribbean Commission for the next two years. The Conference was attended by two delegates from each of the fifteen territories within the jurisdiction of the commission and observers invited by the commission from Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the United Nations and its specialized agencies.

Caribbean Commission

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-433
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
General Organization

The fifth session of the West Indian Conference was held at Montego Bay, Jamaica, from November 24 to December 3, 1952, under the chairmanship of Sir George Seel (United Kingdom). In addition to fifteen Commissioners of the four member governments and their advisers, the conference was attended by delegates and advisers from the fourteen Caribbean countries associated with member governments and by observers from Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and from the United Nations, ILO, FAO, and several other international organizations. The agenda was divided among three working committees, a General Committee was assigned the work of general organization, and a Drafting Committee was given the job of editing.

Caribbean Commission

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-395
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Fourth Session

The fourth session of the West Indian Conference met at Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies from November 24 to December 7, 1950. In addition to the sixteen commissioners from the four member governments, the conference was attended by delegates from fourteen of the fifteen territories administered by member governments and by a large number of observers representing the United Nations, ILO and FAO.

The Foreign Policy of Mauritania

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-361
Author(s):  
M. Adeleye Ojo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
North African ◽  
The West ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Minority Regime

This article examines the foreign policy of Mauritania towards its North African states neighbors and other African states. The basis of Mauritania's foreign policy is decolonization, the liberation movement, apartheid, and minority regime. Additionally, policies towards the East, the West, the United States, and the United Nations are discussed. Post independence changes, Colonial legacy, the economy, and the Polisario guerrillas and the war will continue to be important factors in determining foreign policy in Mauritania.

URI DAVIS, Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997). Pp. 250. $75.00 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAMA ABU-ODEH
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
The West ◽  
Valuable Book ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Universal Law

Uri Davis has written a valuable book in which he advances a very progressive project indeed. Davis is first and foremost committed to human rights. Whereas he acknowledges that liberalism, the ideological narrative of Western universalism, informs this discourse, Davis dismisses the critique of human rights as mere cultural imperialism from the West. Human rights, according to Davis, are spared what may otherwise be a justifiable critique of liberalism by virtue of their incorporation into the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In other words, this declaration is universal law, and state membership in the United Nations necessarily implies respect for it.

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF EARLY MARRIAGES IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS -(A RESEARCH STUDY)

2020 ◽  
pp. 316-328
Author(s):  
Syed Muhammad Usman Ghani ◽  
Dr Muhammad Sajjad ◽  
Hafza Gull Nasheen
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
The West ◽  
Marriage Age ◽  
Key Words Child ◽  
The United Nations

In this article, it has been labored to discuss the issue of child marriage. This has become a burning issue of the date. Actually all the member countries of the United Nations are compelled due to the rule of child marriage in which the marriage age has been fixed. Actually, it is a contradictory law due to the contradictory theology about the marriage perspectives of the Islam and the West. Infact Islam focuses the importance of Faith, male & female honour innosece and prefer the hereafter success on the worldly lusts and earnings while the philosophy of the West about this world and hereafter is totally opposite. The West prefer the worldly lusts, enjoyment and success on the Hereafter success and eternal life. All the contradictory issues among the West and Islam should be perceived in this perspectives. So, in this article it has been endeavoured to elaborate this contradiction which has divided the Muslims into different sects. KEY WORDS: Child marriage, Islam, Librals, West, Quran, Sunnah

Israel and the United Nations' Human Rights Agenda: The Inequality of Nations Large and Small

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne F. Bayefsky
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Equitable Treatment

The Charter of the United Nations proclaims the equality of nations large and small. Nowhere is this principle violated more than in the case of Israel. And nowhere is the inequity more malevolent than in the U.N. human rights system. Reasonable and equitable treatment of a multiplicity of human rights claims throughout the world ought to be one of the hallmarks of United Nations actions. It is not. Instead, for Israel's foes human rights is the rhetorical weapon of choice. And the stage for their campaign is the United Nations. Neither the medium, nor the strategy has changed since the signing of the Oslo Declaration of Principles or the subsequent agreements on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.To well-meaning human rights advocates around the world the United Nations provides a source of hope, a channel for their energies, a vehicle for their causes. Their very presence invests the U.N. human rights fora with an air of legitimacy and an aura of power. The environment is beguiling both to observers and political participants. But looking beyond the hundreds of resolutions, the thousands of pages of paper in six languages, it is possible to expose the malignant nature of the United Nations human rights system.

Muslims at the United Nations: Ethical and Political Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haynes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
The West ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Religious Dialogue ◽  
The United Nations

The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC) was established in 2005 by the then United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to try to improve inter-cultural and inter-religious relations after 9/11. Creating UNAOC stimulated wider interest in examining how and in what ways improving inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue might lead to better relations between the West and Muslims, making incidents like 9/11 less likely. Between 2015 and 2018, I researched into the UNAOC, mainly at UN headquarters in New York. The research involved, inter alia, interviewing over 80 knowledgeable people. As time went on, during repeated research trips to New York, it became clear that the issue of improving relations between the West and Muslims was far from straightforward, as it involved profound ethical and political considerations. The first was that at the UN, Muslims had a relatively understated position and did not enjoy equality with secular or Christian entities. I interviewed many Muslims from representative organisations at the UN. All were unwilling to conform to the UN’s understanding that key problems of inter-cultural and inter-religious conflict were a consequence of Islamist extremism and terrorism. Muslims I interviewed saw the issue differently. They pointed to long periods of Western domination of international relations to explain the lowly position of Muslims. As a consequence, the UNAOC was seen to try to address the problem with unsound understanding of where the problem lay. Muslims believed that the modus operandi and aims of the UNAOC would divide not unite the very constituencies – that is, the West and Muslims – that the UNAOC was created to assist. The conclusion is that even well-meaning initiatives such as the UNAOC are bound to fail if they consider only one set of views and excludes others.

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