The United Nations Security Council in the Age of Human Rights

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The United Nations Security Council in the age of human rights / edited by Jared Genser, Bruno Stagno Ugarte. pages cm isbn 978-1-107-04007-6 (Hardback) 1. United Nations. Security Council. 2. Human rights. I. Genser, Jared. jz4974.u67 2014 341.4 0 8-dc23 2013044467 isbn 978-1-107-04007-6 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

The Role of International Adjudicative Bodies in Prosecuting Genocide Crime: A Case Study of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

“…The initial UN began to be active after the concentration camps were discovered and disseminated, which in August 1992 condemned ethnic cleansing and in September sent UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force) troops to conflict areas. Through UNPROFOR, the UN is trying to protect and make a safe area for refugees, but it turns out that UN forces are still too little to protect refugees from attacks by other parties, so that the area cannot protect victims in conflict areas (Genser & Ugarte, 2014). The UN failure in the Bosnian conflict was the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosnians, both young and old, were slaughtered in the city.…”

The Conundrum of Defining and Prosecuting Terrorism: A Review of United Kingdom and International Reponses

“…The UNSC adopted Resolution 1730 (2006) establishing a central office that administers delisting requests 40 . Over the last decade, the UNSC has taken active steps to tackle due process concerns via resolutions including 1904, 1989, 2082and 2083(Genser and Ugarte, 2014. UNSC Resolution 1566 states terrorism is 'criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act, and all acts which constitute offences within the scope of and as defined in the international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism, are under no circumstances justifiable by consideration of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature.…”