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The Necessity Of A Human Rights Accountabilty For The United Nations, Gerhard Niedrist
The Necessity Of A Human Rights Accountabilty For The United Nations, Gerhard Niedrist
Gerhard Niedrist
The United Nations is an exceptional organization that covers nearly all states of the world. The UN has not only contributed greatly to the maintenance of international peace and security, but also has contributed significantly to the development of the present international human rights regime. With the end of the Cold War and the new geopolitical order in the early nineties, the concept of peace maintenance changed more and more to active peace-enforcement. UN operations gradually turned into “peace-making” operations, like those in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. This new type of peacemaking also led to new tasks for the UN, which …