Understanding International Politics - Further Reading_Chapter 15
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Further Reading - Chapter 15

Read into The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Explore the status of ratification for eighteen of the core international human rights treaties deposited with the UN, including those states that have ratified, signed but not ratified, or taken no action: https://indicators.ohchr.org

Discover the original documents of the 1955 Bandung Conference, including its Final Communique: https://archive.org/details/selecteddocument00asia/page/28/mode/2up?view=theater | see also https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698010902752830

Read the full text of UNSC Resolution (1992) 794 authorizing the establishment of an international operation (Unified Task Force UNITAF) to create a secure environment in Somalia: http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/794

Find out more about the US Army in Somalia from 1992 to 1994 in this brochure produced by the US Army Centre of Military History: The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994 | U.S. Army Center of Military History

In 2001 an Independent International Commission on Kosovo was tasked with reporting on the intervention by NATO. Read the report here: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/kosovo-report

Find out more about the Responsibility to Protect, including some of its key documents and strategies: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.shtml

You can explore more about the Centre’s analysis of populations currently at risk from human rights abuses using this interactive map: www.globalr2p.org/populations-at-risk

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ reporting on the Rohingya Refugee Crisis: www.unocha.org/rohingya-refugee-crisis

Read more about Myanmar (including more recent developments within the country): www.globalr2p.org/countries/myanmar-burma/

Access the UN Security Council’s statement on the 2017 Rohingya crisis: https://press.un.org/en/2017/sc13055.doc.htm

An article from Human Rights Watch entitled ‘UN Security Council Should Act on Myanmar Atrocities’: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/25/un-security-council-should-act-myanmar-atrocities


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