UNITED NATIONS:

Concepts
 The UN Charter

•embodies the law of

international peace and security
•to ensure that armed forces
would not be used, save in the
common interest.
• 1. Art 2 (4) - prohibits the threat or
use of force by individual states in
their international relations and Art 2
(3) which requires that states settle
international disputes through
peaceful means.
• Art 42 empowers the Security
Council as an enforcement
measure to take action by
air, sea or land forces as may be
necessary to maintain or restore
international peace and security.
The Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of
the UN

•Art. 1. Sec. 1. - The UN

shall possess juridical
personality.
.a. to contract
b. to acquire and dispose of
immovable and movable
property
c. to institute legal proceedings.
•Art. 2 (4)
prohibits the
use of force.
 Exceptions

•in the exercise of the

"inherent right of
individual or collective
self-defense"
• enforcement measure to take
action by air, sea or land forces
as may be necessary to
maintain or restore
international peace and
security.
•enforcement measure by
regional arrangement or
agency as may be
necessary authorized by the
Security Council
 Remember:

•The UN Charter provides a legal

obligation on the part of the
international community to
respect and observe human
rights.
• Art 102 (2) provides: No party
to any such treaty or
international agreement which
is has not been so registered
may invoke that treaty before
any of the UN organs.
• Art. 24 (1)provides that the UN
members confer primary
responsibility of maintaining
international peace and security to
the Security Council and the General
Assembly has secondary
responsibility.