United Nations Charter

About: United Nations Charter is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 704 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8127 citations.

United nations security council

Abstract: This chapter describes the composition and powers of United Nations Security Council. The Security Council is composed of the representatives of 15 member States of the United Nations. The United Nations Charter has retained the distinction between permanent members and other States that existed in the Council of the League of Nations. The leading nations of the military alliance that defeated the Axis Powers became the five permanent members: (1) China, (2) France, (3) the United Kingdom, (4) the Soviet Union, and (5) the United States. Until 1965, there were six elected members, this number being raised to 10 by a 1963 amendment to the Charter. The main functions of the Security Council in discharging its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security are the peaceful settlement of disputes or peacemaking, action with respect to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression, and peace enforcement.

Organization of african unity

Abstract: This chapter presents the background and aims of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The OAU Charter represented an amalgam of the experiences acquired by those who drafted it, as well as a compromise on the major objectives of the member states of the organization. The preamble reveals the conviction of the African leaders at the Addis Ababa Conference that they had assumed responsibility for the destiny of Africa the period of confusion and past external domination. Prime emphasis was therefore placed on the inalienable right of all peoples to control their own destiny. Close links between the human and natural resources of the African continent were recognized as vital if any advance in human endeavors was to be achieved. The preamble also encourages the members of the OAU to adhere to the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The purposes of the OAU are clearly enumerated in Article 11. The institutional motivation rests particularly on the promotion of unity and solidarity which were painfully difficult to achieve.

The Peace of Westphalia, 1648–1948

Abstract: The acceptance of the United Nations Charter by the overwhelming majority of the members of the family of nations brings to mind the first great European or world charter, the Peace of Westphalia. To it is traditionally attributed the importance and dignity of being the first of several attempts to establish something resembling world unity on the basis of states exercising untrammeled sovereignty over certain territories and subordinated to no earthly authority.

The United Nations Charter as the Constitution of the International Community

Abstract: This book, written by one of the leading participants of the debate on a “constitutionalization” of international law, explains why the Charter of the United Nations must be understood as the constitution of the international community, and the legal consequences arising from that characterization.

The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary

Abstract: This is the first commentary on the UN Charter in the English language to be published since 1969 and the only one in any language to take the practice of the United Nations fully into account. Written by a team of 60 German, Swiss and Austrian scholars of international law working in universities and international civil services, the commentary offers an article-by-article account of the legislative history, interpretation and practical application of each Charter provision, together with a detailed political evaluation and recommendation for the future.