Author: James Cotton
Publisher: Longueville Books
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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This landmark reference work is the first complete history of Australia and its relationship with, and role within, the United Nations. On 17 January 1946, when the United Nations Security Council held its inaugural session, an Australian representative, Norman Makin, presided.If all members adhered to the principles of the United Nations Charter, predicted Makin, the United Nations would become "a great power for the good of the world, bringing that freedom from fear, which is necessary before we can hope for progress and welfare in all lands". Australia and the United Nations traces how Australia committed itself to the United Nations project, from before the convening of the first United Nations Security Council until the eve of its election to a fifth term on that body. The book begins with Australian involvement with the organisation that preceded the United Nations, the League of Nations. It then analyses the role played by Australian Minister for External Affairs, HV Evatt, and his staff in framing the United Nations Charter at San Francisco in 1945. Three chapters analyse Australia's diplomacy towards the Security Council, its efforts in peacekeeping, and evolving policies and attitudes towards arms control and disarmament. Two chapters discuss Australia's engagement with the United Nations' manifold specialised agencies and the role of the broader UN family in development. Another two chapters are devoted to a study of Australia's role in areas of United Nations operation only dimly foreseen by its founders at San Francisco-decolonisation and the environment. The two final chapters examine Australia's contribution to the promotion of human rights and international law and the important role it has played seeking to improve the United Nations' performance to equip it to meet new challenges in global politics. Australia and the United Nations tells us what was done in the past, and why. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand Australia's multilateral diplomacy, and our future choices.
Author: United Nations Association of Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Author: W. J. Hudson
Publisher: Sydney: Sydney University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Steven Farram
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre University College Adfa
ISBN: 9781925801668
Category : Indonesia
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Australia's contribution to Indonesia's independence struggle is broadly well-known and this book explores an important part of the story: Australia's leading role in the 1947 UN Consular Commission and the monitoring of the first UN cease-fire order. The commission's military observers were pioneer peacekeepers, and an examination of the commission's activities is useful for understanding the Indonesian independence struggle in the following years. Australia's involvement also played a positive role in long-term Australian-Indonesian relations.
Author: Norman Harper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949652416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Australia. Parliament. Senate. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642366443
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The capacity of the UN to protect human rights as a basic requirement of the Charter, as preventative diplomacy and to address war crimes and crimes of genocide; The viability of the International Criminal Court; The proposals for reform of the structure of the UN, in particular the security Council, the specialised agencies, the supporting bureaucracy and the relationship between the security and humanitarian/human rights arms of the organisation; The funding shortfall; and Australia's role in and response to the United Nations.
Author: Australian Mission to the United Nations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Author: Ton Liefaard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004295054
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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In 2014 the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty, one specifically for children, reached the milestone of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in the time since then it has entered a new century, reshaping laws, policies, institutions and practices across the globe, along with fundamental conceptions of who children are, their rights and entitlements, and society’s duties and obligations to them. Yet despite its rapid entry into force worldwide, there are concerns that the Convention remains a high-level paper treaty without the traction on the ground needed to address ever-continuing violations of children’s rights. This book, based on papers from the conference ‘25 Years CRC’ held by the Department of Child Law at Leiden University, draws together a rich collection of research and insight by academics, practitioners, NGOs and other specialists to reflect on the lessons of the past 25 years, take stock of how international rights find their way into children’s lives at the local level, and explore the frontiers of children’s rights for the 25 years ahead.
