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3 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (1995)
The Role of the UN Security Council in Protecting Human Rights in Crisis Situtations: UN Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

handle is hein.journals/tulicl3 and id is 5 raw text is: THE ROLE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN
PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRISIS
SITUATIONS: UN HUMANITARIAN
INTERVENTION IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD
RICHARD B. LILLICH*
I.      INTRODUCTION   ......................................................................... 2
II.     DuTms AND POWERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL
UNDER THE UN CHARTER ....................................................... 3
I.     THE EVOLUTION OF SECURiY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
DESIGNED TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS ................................ 4
A.      Resolution 678 and the Gulf War: A First Step
Towards UN Humanitarian Intervention ................. 5
B.      Resolution 688 and the Post-Gulf War Situation
in Iraq: Severe Human Rights Deprivations
Threaten International Peace and Security ............. 6
C.     Resolution 794 and the Somali Crisis: Internal
Human Rights Violations Warrant
Humanitarian Action ................................................. 7
D.      Resolution 940 and the Haitian Situation:
The Purest Form of Humanitarian
Intervention to Date ................................................... 9
IV.     CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE SECUiTY COUNCIL
AND UN MEMBER STATES OVER UN
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION .................................................. I I
A.      The Legal Debate ...................................................... 12
B.      The Political Debate ................................................. 13
V.      CONCLUSION   ..........................................................................  14
*    Howard W. Smith Professor of Law, University of Virginia; President, Procedural
Aspects of International Law Institute. The author delivered the first Eberhard P. Deutsch
Lecture in International Law, which forms the basis of this Article, while he was the Visiting
Woodruff Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.
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