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Archive Introduction


UN Performance Problems

UN Management Accountability Struggles


Where is the Rule of Law?

Inadequate UN Oversight

Recent Developments

 
  

 

 


Legal                         

                                                                                                        

 

In seeking to uphold the rule of law within the United Nations and international organisations, IO Watch is committed to researching legal issues.  The Organisation CAIO, the Centre for Accountability of International Organisations, was recently launched in Geneva to focus on the legal issues surrounding international immunity and accountability (see www.caio-ch.org). 

 

 

This initial legal archive includes a legal overview prepared by IO Watch, CAIO’s opening speech by leading Justice Geoffrey Robertson Q.C., Justice of the UN Sierra Leone War Crimes Tribunal, and a research paper prepared by the Amsterdam International Law Clinic for CAIO.  IO Watch will add more items of interest in the future.

 

 

                Table of Contents


 

     --  Legal Overview

 

     --  CAIO speech

 

     --  Amsterdam Clinic research  paper

 

 

 

In addition, a link which provides the legal opinions of three international jurists who have examined the UN’s internal legal system is:

 

www.ilo.org/public/english/staffun/info/iloat/

 

 

     A further link is to a detailed report from an independent law firm describing the problems with the sexual harassment grievance procedures within the UN, prepared by a New York law firm, Chadbourne & Parke, at the UN Panel of Counsel website:

 

            http://www.un.org/staff/panelofcounsel/shrep.htm

 

 

    
       A very useful overview article is “Rule without law: Injustice at the United Nations? ", by Edward Patrick Flaherty and Sarah Hunt, originally published in the April 2006 edition of The Geneva Post Quarterly.