World Order

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Organisations such as the EC and ASEAN, and the United Nations. Individuals have virtually no rights and duties at international law, however, they also have limited scope for complaints/petitions to agencies of the UN.
There have been many initiatives towards achieving global stability, beginning as early as last century. The first International Peace Conference was convened in The Hague on 18 May 1899 at the invitation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia to consider, in the words of the then Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Mouravieff, " a possible reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations" and to revise existing principles on naval and land warfare. The representations of 25 governments took part in the conference, held in the Huis ten Bosch and negotiations lasted for 10 weeks. On the 29 July 1899 the conference adopted, among others, the Convention for the Peaceful Adjustment of International Differences; ...

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was that it lacked the membership that the UN enjoys today. The world leaders of the time did not recognise the importance of "global" agreements to decision and conventions.
The lessons learnt from the failure of the League of Nations and the horror and shock at the Jewish Holocaust prompted the establishment of the United Nations in 1948. The UN was established with its primary purpose as an international organisation to ensure peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, and to promote human rights and better standards of living. The United Nations is not a world government, nor is it an independent entity. It is a means for countries to co-operate, when and if ...

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