Preventing Deadly ConflictDavid A. Hamburg |
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Page 4 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Page 136 - Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.
Page 142 - Council, due regard being specially paid, in the first instance to the contribution of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution.
Page 140 - This Treaty does not affect, and shall not be interpreted as affecting, in any way the rights and obligations under the Charter of the Parties which are members of the United Nations, or the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Page 132 - Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) • Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956) • Convention on the Nationality of Married Women (1957) • Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) • Convention on...
Page 206 - A threat or use of force by means of nuclear weapons that is contrary to Article 2, paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter and that fails to meet all the requirements of Article 51, is unlawful; D.
Page 140 - Article 27, paragraph 3, the word "seven" shall be replaced by the word "nine" ; 2. Calls upon all Member States to ratify the above amendments in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by 1 September 1965 ; 3. Further decides that the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected according to the following pattern : (a) Five from African and Asian States ; ( b ) One from Eastern European States ; (c) Two from Latin American States ; (d) Two from Western European...
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Page 135 - The time of absolute and exclusive sovereignty, however, has passed; its theory was never matched by its reality.