United nations Systems Flashcards
Created
1945
Members went from to
51 to 193
Because of decolonized countries
Purposes of UN
Maintain international peace and security
Develop friendly relations among nations
Achieve international cooperation
Be a center for harmonizing the actions
Five main organs
Security council
Secretariat
General assembly
Economic and social council
International court of justice
All states are
Equally represented
Security council’s members
15 members including
5 permanent
5 permanent members of security council
USA
China
France
Uk
Russia
Have veto right
ECOSOC discusses
Environment social economic challenges
Secretariat
Administrative arm
Collects data
International court of justice
Principal organ not based in NY
Trusteeship council
Suspended its operation in 1994
UN specialized agencies
17
WHo
Unesco
Un funds and programs
UNICEF
UNEP
8 millennium established in
2000
To be achieved in 2015
Ensure env sustainability
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Gender equality
(fail because of narrow focus, uneven progress…)
Sustainable dev goals in
2015 by 2030
17 goals
No poverty
0 hunger
Gender equality
Life on land
Limits of SDG
Ambitious targets
Inequalities between countries
Security council is
Limited because of veto right
Slow machine
Outdated
Collective security
Korea in June 1950
After NK invasion, military forces were authorized by UNSC
PKOs
Prior to their creation SC checks if
-ceasefire
-mandate
-safety and security of Un personnel
Fundamental principles for PKO
Consent of parties
Impartiality (not neutrality or inaction)
Non use of force
Birth of new PKO
Greater interaction w civil population
1st of this type in Namibia (to promote the independence through free and fair elections)
Srebrenica genocide after the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1995
Massacres and inappropriate action of the Dutch blue helmets who witnessed the massacres (they made the mistake of separating men from women facilitating the targeted massacres of men)
PKO must
Since 1994
Take into consideration perceptions and attitudes
Better protect civilians
