evaluating the UN Flashcards
success is to …
promote growth and stability
examples of successes of the UN
millennium development goals
UN peace keeping in cote d’ivoire
how many millennium goals
8
millennium goals
1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
fallen from 1.9bill in 1990 to 836 million 2015
target to reduce by half just missed
millennium goals
2)achieve universal primary education
now 91% primary school enrollment
millennium goals
6) combat HIV, malaria and other diseases
new HIV infections fallen by 40%
6.2 million malaria deaths averted
millennium goals
7) ensure environmental sustainability
2.6 billion gained access to improved drinking water
UN peace keeping aims (5)
end conflict
foster reconciliation
provide basic secruity guarentees
non-use of force apart from self defence
promote national and local ownrship of the peace process in host country
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
why needed?
lack of state authority
2004 country divided by cival war
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
during 2010 presidential crisis how many Ivorians killed? how many became refugees?
3000 killed
300 000 refugees
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
how many peecekeepers deployed by 2011?
12 000
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
political change?
two presidential elections 2011
two legislative elections 2016
opposition participated in elections
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
disarmed how many combats?
70 000 and intergrated them into society
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
how many refugees returned by 2016?
1/4 mill
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
why UN can step down?
Ivorian admisistration is now present in 108 local departments
intergrated women in army, genderamerie, police
UN peacekeeping Cote D’Ivoire
with stability has the fastest growing economy in africa at…
9%
weakness …
exacerbate inequalities
examples of weaknesses
darfur
fairer trade
darfur
why UN sent peacekeepers
Sudan’s darfur region has ethnic conflict for 9 years over grazing land
SLA and JEM attacking government target in 2003, accussing Khartoum of oppressing black african in favour of arabs throughout issue
UN learned of 300 000 dead when Sudan gov only estimated 10 000 deaths
darfur
unsuccessful as…
sudanese gov sabotaged the peace building proccess
international criminal court issued arrest warrent on president for genocide
not enough trade sanctions employed - weapons still flowed into sudan
peace agreement only signed by one rebel group and government
fairer trade
issue
WTO failed to deliver promised pro-development changes
fairer trade
cotton farmers problems
$47 billion in subsides paid to HIC farmers in stead of LIC farmers in poverty
5 million farmers forced out of business
fairer trade
decision making problems
WTO works on concensus
153 countries concensus is nearly impossible
