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Unit 4: Accountability and Rights
Quick questions on The United Nations and Human Rights Enforcement: WACE Year 12 Politics and Law
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When you evaluate, judge the UN as effective at norm creation and monitoring but constrained in enforcement. Use evidence on both sides: the development of the international human rights framework and the Universal Periodic Review as achievements, and a vetoed Security Council resolution or an ignored treaty committee finding as the limits. Conclude that the UN's influence works mainly through legitimacy, scrutiny and pressure rather than coercion, which is the realistic position examiners reward.
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