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UN Performance Problems UN Management Accountability Struggles Where is the Rule of Law? Inadequate UN Oversight Recent Developments
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SUBSECTION TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Outmoded internal justice processes
This overall archive
section on Where
is the Rule of Law? has thus far traced many developments,
struggles, and problems in the areas of UN staff rights, the UN internal
justice system, and behind the scenes. This subsection seeks to wrap up
this discussion somewhat before moving along to a few more important UN
rule-of-law topics, and some signs, despite the present dismal picture,
that there may indeed be hope for improvements in the future. IO Watch believes that
some further exploration of
the major ongoing flaws in the UN's legal processes is particularly
important because almost all the recent corrective actions talked of by
the UN Secretariat involve only minor tinkering, but -- as the General
Assembly has emphasized recently -- offer precious little analysis of the
actual processes and their present problems and status.
Further, there is a
danger that even revisions presently being proposed to UN internal legal
processes may drag on for years before any actual reforms can be agreed
to, designed and established, as has been proven by failed past efforts.
Thus IO Watch wants to provide a closer focus on the damage done by the
existing UN legal guidance and internal judicial processes, because the
present defective situation may well drag on for a very long time. The material in this
subsection therefore explores: (a) the dubious
current status of the UN code of conduct and staff
rules; (b) the particular problems caused by
attempts to maintain the old internal justice processes in an era in which
many new conduct, misconduct, performance, and accountability standards,
policies, and rules are being introduced; (c)
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