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2 GA Res. 22(1), Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, UN Doc. A/RES/22(1) (13 Feb. 1946), s. 29.

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39 UN Department of Public Information, ‘Haiti Cholera Victims’ Compensation Claims “Not Receivable” under Immunities and Privileges Convention, United Nations Tells Their Representatives', UN Doc. SG/SM/14828 (21 Feb. 2013).

40 Ibid.

41 Letter from Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General, to Maxine Waters, US Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, 5 July 2013, available at <http://www.ijdh.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/UNSG-Letter-to-Rep.-Maxine-Waters.pdf>) (accessed 4 May 2015).

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43 See H. G. Schermers and N. M. Blokker, International Institutional Law (2003), 1002; Reinisch, A., ‘The Immunity of International Organizations and the Jurisdiction of their Administrative Tribunals’, (2008) 7 Chinese Journal of International Law 285CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 290.

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49 Sheeran, S. and Bevilacqua, C., ‘The UN Security Council and International Human Rights Obligations: Towards a New Theory of Constraints and Derogations’, in Sheeran, S. and Nigel Rodley, S. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law (2013), 371Google Scholar.

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58 Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding SC Res 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion [1971] ICJ Rep. 12, at 16.

59 Ibid., at 57.

60 UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 31, UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.13 (2004) para. 2.

61 Questions of interpretation and application of the Montreal Convention arising out of the Aerial incident at Lockerbie (provisional measures) (Libya v. UK), Order of 14 April 1992, [1992] ICJ Rep. 114, (Judge Jennings Dissenting Opinion) para. 110.

62 See, e.g. Resolution adopted by the International Law Association (International Law Association, Report of the Sixty-Sixth Conference (1994), 29); Alston, P., ‘The Universal Declaration at 35: Western and Passé or Alive and Universal’, (1982) 31 ICJ Rev. 60Google Scholar. For a recent critical discussion of the acceptance of the UDHR as customary international law, see Von Bernstorff, J., ‘The Changing Fortunes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Genesis and Symbolic Dimensions of the Turn to Rights in International Law’, (2008) 19 (5)EJIL 903CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Section 3.

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70 On Conditions of Admission of a State into membership of the United Nations, see Conditions of Admission of a State to Membership in the United Nations (Article 4 of Charter), Advisory Opinion, [1948] ICJ Rep. 57, at 7.

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78 See Mégret and Hoffman, supra note 46.

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80 ‘We are United Nations Peacekeeping Personnel’ is a brochure given to all new staff members (available at <www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/documents/un_in.pdf> (accessed 4 May 2015)) and is also included as an annex to the model ‘Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations and Personnel Contributing States’. It specifies that the ‘Government shall ensure that all members of the Government's national contingent are required to comply with the United Nations standards of conduct’, Letter dated 22 February 2008 from the Chairman of the 2008 Working Group on Contingent-Owned Equipment to the Chairman of the Fifth Committee, (29 January 2009) (A/C.5/63/18) Ch. 9, Art. 7 bis, 165.

81 Unpublished letter of 3 February 2004 by the United Nations Legal Counsel to the Director of the Codification Division. Quoted in International Law Commission, Report of the ILC, GA Official Records, 56th session, Supplement No. 10, 111, UN Doc. A/59/10 (2004).

82 UN Secretary-General, Administrative and Budgetary Aspects of the Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. A/51/389 (20 September 1996), para. 6.

83 ‘UN Told Not to Join Congo Army in Operation’, New York Times, 9 December 2009, quoting letter dated 1 April 2009.

84 See, e.g., SC Res. 1270 of 22 October 1999 establishing UNAMIL; SC Res. 2112 of 30 July 2013; SC Res. 2098 of 28 March 2013; SC Res. 2113 of 30 July 2013.

85 OHCHR/DPKO/DPA/DFS, Policy on Human Rights in United Nations Peace Operations and Political Missions (1 September 2011). See also, UN Secretary-General, Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization, UN Doc. A/68/1 (8 Aug. 2012), para. 58.

86 GA-SC, supra note 77.

87 Ibid.

88 SC Res. 1244 (1999) establishing the ‘United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo’ (UNMIK) mandated UNMIK to perform basic civilian administrative functions, support the reconstruction of key infrastructure, maintain civil law and order, promote human rights, and assure the safe return of all refugees. Similarly, SC Res 1272 establishing ‘United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor’ (UNTAET) gave UNTAET overall responsibility for the administration of East Timor including all legislative and executive authority, as well as the administration of justice.

89 For example, The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), the second United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II), the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) in combination with a United Nations International Police Task Force (IPTF), and the ‘United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia’ (UNTAES).

90 UNTAET Regulation No. 1999/1 (27 November 1999)

91 S.C. Res. 1244, UN Doc. S/RES/1244 (11 June 1999), Article 11(j).

92 Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 26, UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.8/Rev.1 (8 December 1997), para. 4.

93 Behrami and Behrami v. France, App. No. 71412/01 (2007) and Saramati v. France, Germany and Norway, App. No. 78166/01 (2007), paras. 144–52 in which the Court held that ‘UNMIK was a subsidiary organ of the UN created under Chapter VII and KFOR was exercising powers lawfully delegated under Chapter VII of the Charter by the UNSC. As such, their actions were directly attributable to the UN’.

94 Ibid., para. 144.

95 See, e.g., Bell, Caitlin, Reassessing Multiple Attribution: The International Law Commission and the Behrami and Saramati decision, 42 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 501 (2010)Google Scholar.

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97 Kasumaj v. Greece, App. No. 6974/05 (2007).

98 Gajić v. Germany, App. No. 31446/02 (2007).

99 Berić and others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, App. Nos. 36357/04; 36360/04; 38346/04; 41705/04; 45190/04; 45578/04; 45579/04; 45580/04; 91/05; 97/05; 100/05; 101/05; 1121/05; 1123/05; 1125/05; 1129/05; 1132/05; 1133/05; 1169/05; 1172/05; 1175/05; 1177/05; 1180/05; 1185/05; 20793/05; 25496/05 (2007).

100 Mothers of Srebrenica/Netherlands and United Nations, District Court of the Hague, July 10, 2008, De Rechtspraak BD6795 (Neth.). See also, Asser Institute, Centre for International and European Law, Cases for a full list of the cases, available at <www.asser.nl/default.aspx?site_id=36&level1=15248&level2=&level3=&textid=39956> (accessed 4 May 2015).

101 SC resolutions 1608 (2005), 1702 (2006), 1743 (2007), 1780 (2007), 1840 (2008), 1892 (2009), 1908 (19 January 2010), 1927 (4 June 2010) and 2070 (2012).

102 S. D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999).

103 See, e.g., Al-Skeini and Others v. the United Kingdom, App. No. 55721/07, 53 EHRR 589 (2011).

104 Aristide claimed to have been abducted by the United States, France and Canada. See N. Chomsky, P. Farmer, and A. Goodman, Getting Haiti Right This Time (2004).

105 S.C. Res. 1542, UN Doc. S/RES/1542 (30 April 2004).

106 For an overview of the evolution of MINUSTAH's mandate between 2004 and 2013, see Lemay-Hebert, N., ‘United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)’ in Koops, J. A.et al. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (2014)Google Scholar.

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109 Bylaws of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, (20 June 2010), available at <http://personal.crocodoc.com/yZ0VAW> (accessed 4 May 2015).

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114 S.C. Res. 1927 UN Doc. S/RES/1927 (4 June 2010).

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116 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 993 UNTS 3 (16 December 1996). Arts. 12 and 7(b).

117 For example, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, UN Doc. A/6014 (1966), 660 UNTS 195 (21 December 1965), Art. 5(e)(iv); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1249 UNTS 3 (18 Dec. 1979), Art. 12; Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1577 UNTS 3 (20 Nov. 1989), Article 24; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, G.A. Res. 61/106 UN Doc. (24 Jan. 2007), Art. 25.

118 For example, Organization of American States, American Convention on Human Rights, OASTS No. 36, 1144 UNTS 123 (22 Nov. 1969), Art. 10; Organization of African Unity, The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3/Rev.5 (1981), reprinted in 21 ILM 58 (1982), Art. 16.

119 Two of the most famous cases are Soobramoney v. Minister of Health (Kwazulu-Natal), Constitutional Court of South Africa, Case CCT 32/97, 27 November 1997 and Minister of Health and Others v. Treatment Action Campaign, 2002 5 SA 721 (CC). For an exploration of a range of national and regional cases, see Hendriks, A., ‘The Right to Health in National and International Jurisprudence’, (1998) 5 European Journal of Health Law 389CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

120 UN CESCR, General Comment No. 14, UN Doc. E/C.12/2000/4 (11 August 2000), para. 9.

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122 See, e.g., S. Fredman, Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties (2009) Ch. 3.

123 Ibid., at 73–6.

124 See Paust, supra note 75, at 3.

125 Ibid., at 9.

126 UN Department of Public Information (New York), ‘Haiti Cholera Victims’ Compensation Claims “Not Receivable” under Immunities and Privileges Convention, United Nations Tells Their Representatives', UN Doc. SG/SM/14828 (21 February 2013).

127 Letter from Ban Ki-Moon, supra note 41.

128 UN Charter, Art. 105, para. 1.

129 G.A. Res. 22(1), supra note 2, s. 2.

130 Ibid, s. 29.

131 G.A., ‘Model Status-Of-Forces Agreement for Peace-keeping operations’, UN Doc. A/45/594 (1990), Art. 51.

132 See Freedman, supra note 3.