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A 4 page paper on U.N. efforts to protect human rights and state sovereignty in countries around the world. According to the writer, the United Nations have traditionally been very outspoken -- going against human rights violations, but really doing nothing to stop them from occurring. Specific cases, quotes, etc.; are included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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26, 1945. Hitler was not yet dead. We were still at war with Japan. But President Harry Truman spoke of building a brave new world on the ashes of
World War II. Since then the worlds population has increased dramatically, 100 new nations have come into being and the U.N. has grown to 185 members. But it never
really fulfilled the charters ambitious goals of saving succeeding generations from war; upholding human dignity; protecting the rights of men, women and children, and safeguarding nations large and small (Daley,
1993). Although there have been no more world wars, there have been plenty of smaller ones, along with genocides of appalling scale. Human life and dignity
continue to have very little value in places like Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi. Men are still more equal than women in many parts of the world. Women can
not even drive in Saudi Arabia, and Indian peasants continue to sell their daughters into bondage. Instead of preventing conflict, the U.N. has been an arena of conflict in
itself - between the ideologies of East and West, the economic rivalries of North and South, the resentments of Third World "have-nots" against the arrogance of the industrialized "haves" (Kennedy,
1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping forces it can not
afford and virtually irrelevant in diplomatic efforts to contain a confusing welter of civil, ethnic and territorial conflicts disrupting the new world order. Its helplessness is best illustrated in
Bosnia, where Muslim Premier Haris Silajdzic earlier this year had accused the world body of "capitulating" to the Serbs by refusing to authorize NATO air strikes on a Serbian airfield
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