UN Security Council Research Guides The Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. Chapters V-VII, Articles 23-54, of the UN Charter concern the Security Council. The Security Council has 15 members: Five permanent members with veto power:ChinaFranceRussian FederationUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited States of AmericaTen non-permanent members, five of which are elected each year by the General Assembly for a two-year term. The Security Council does not meet sessionally but stands ready to convene at any time as the need arises. The Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council are contained in document S/96/Rev.7 (Sales number 83.I.4). Background information about the work of the Council can be retrieved from the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council as well as from the Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs. The basic format for the symbols of Security Council documents is:
International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances Council on Foreign Relations Human Trafficking UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling English | Français Human trafficking is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them. Smuggling migrants involves the procurement for financial or other material benefit of illegal entry of a person into a State of which that person is not a national or resident. Virtually every country in the world is affected by these crimes. As the only United Nations entity focusing on the criminal justice element of these crimes, the work that UNODC does to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling. Learn more To learn more visit What is human trafficking? Download UNODC's anti-trafficking and anti-smuggling Tools and Publications. Watch Public Service Announcements and listen to expert interviews here. Latest news
Security Council The Security Council In Brief... 15 members: five permanent members with veto power and ten non-permanent members, elected by the General Assembly for a two-year term. Meetings are called at any given time when the need arises. Rotating presidency: Members take turn at holding the presidency of the Security Council for one month. Under the Charter, the Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. The Security Council takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression. The Security Council also recommends to the General Assembly the appointment of the Secretary-General and the admission of new Members to the United Nations. Latest News
Institute of Applied Ethics - Hull University Last updated on 3/18/2014 Print this page1 The Institute of Applied Ethics is the focus of research in applied ethics at the University of Hull. The Institute brings complementary interests across the university together in ways that provide a supportive and creative forum for the development of programmes and projects that allow for the empirical grounding and the rigorous theoretical input and interaction that is necessary to research in applied ethics. We interpret applied ethics broadly, as the application of ethical considerations, reasons, principles, values and ideals to any policy or practice, personal, social or professional, for the purpose of evaluating (and thus endorsing, rejecting or revising) that policy or practice on ethical grounds. The Institute has a number of interrelated research programmes with an overarching focus of Ethics in Public Decision-Making. Social Justice and WelfareEnvironment, Conflict and ResponsibilityProfessional and Institutional Ethics
International Affairs archives A l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la CEAI, la Commission organisa à Séoul (Corée) un colloque qui reprenait le thème de la Conférence d'Oxford, pour réexaminer les relations complexes entre l'Eglise, la communauté nationale et l'Etat qu'on avait étudiées soixante ans plus tôt, sous l'emprise de la menace représentée par l'Etat national-socialiste allemand. Nous avons pris conscience à cette occasion de la remarquable pertinence de ces discussions, et il est utile de citer quelques déclarations faites à la Conférence d'Oxford ou à son propos, pour nous rappeler que notre conception actuelle des affaires internationales doit beaucoup à ce que nos prédécesseurs discernèrent avec une vision remarquablement claire. Au sujet du souci causé par la possibilité d'une nouvelle guerre mondiale, la Conférence d'Oxford préconisait une conception globale des affaires internationales et affirmait ce qui suit: Condamner la guerre ne suffit pas. ... Evolution du mouvement oecuménique
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