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International Law Changed During Post Wwii New World

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International Law profoundly changed in a post WWII new world order in which the world was forced to face one of the most disturbing and difficult conflicts in its history. Regions across all frontiers were affected by the spread of nuclear weapons, genocide, tyranny and other manmade strategies to deflect the stability and tranquility of a once calmer and more serene world. Institutions such as the United Nations were devised after the end of a war that convinced nations that what happens around the world affects each and everyone living in this planet; thus, the surge of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the charters composing it. For the first time we began to look at an individual for more than their country of origin or …show more content…

The United Nations charter on human rights expresses the idea that states should attempt to protect and explicitly defend all fundamental freedoms of individuals worldwide. Nations such as the Netherlands and the Swedish have formulated an international culture on the observance of human rights; therefore, the public push on humanitarian intervention is greater due to the embedded importance they have given the individual. The rights of individuals have become part of customary international law and fall under the recognized jus cogens laws (Orakhelashvili, 2000). Moreover, efficiently separating the responsibility that states owe their citizens domestically as well as the duty that states maintain under international law to protect the international community, has ensured lesser instances of human rights violations. It is only when the international community becomes so focused on domestic disputes within their own borders that genocides such as the Srebrenica and Rwanda occur. If it were not for the Dutch in the case of Srebrenica hundreds of people would have lost their lives based on theological differences between their ethnic minority and majority. The U.N. Security Council acts as an intermediary to solve situations in which the violation of the rights of individuals has become so broad that it begins to negatively affect

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