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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. 1

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