The United Nations Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the UN system. The head of the Secretariat is the Secretary-General, who is nominated by the Security Council and appointed by the General Assembly for renewable five-year terms. The current Secretary-General is ...
Failing to foresee the outbreak of the Second World War, the League of Nations eventually weakened and was formally dissolved in 1946. UN-FORMATION On 12 June 1941, as most European countries had fallen to the control of Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan), the Declaration of St. James...
On the evening of December 3, 2012, hundreds of protesters gather outsideBelfast City Hallas theBelfast City Councilvotes to limit the days that theUnion Jack, the flag of theUnited Kingdom, flies from City Hall. Since 1906, the flag has been flown every day of the year. This is reduc...
United NationsCustomary International LawConstructivismThe present work addresses the role of UN in the formation of customary international law from a constructivist perspective. It dialogues with the Internationaldoi:10.1163/18719732-12341348DroubiSufyan...
I write this on January 6, a date that will live in some degree of infamy in the annals of democratization in the United States. Last night driving home from a family trip I heard on BBC a discussion of the state of democracy in the world with a scholar noting V-DEM research showing...
1 As parties signatory to the United Nations Declaration of Janua-ry 1, 1942, the Governments of the Republic of China and the Un-ited States of America have pledged themselves to employ theirfull resources, military and economic, against those nations wi-th which they are at war. ...
(Letter from the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, dated 23 May 2007.)) Under these circumstances, the misreporting of what appear to have been (happily, temporary) disappearances as extrajudicial executions does very little to discredit the vast number of remaining allegations. 2 The ...
Why not find out more about the formation and history of the United Nations? List of Member States at a Glance This table provides information about the member countries of the United Nations, including the date of admission. CountryJoined UN1 Afghanistan 1946 Albania 1955 Algeria 1962 Andorra ...
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For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. Public debt: This entry records the cumulatiive total of all government borrowings less repayments that are denominated in a country's home currency. Public debt should not be confused with external ...