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The United Nations (UN) is an organisation created “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. It is the principal institution for building, consolidating and using the authority of the international community in order to fulfil the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, which endows its decisions with legitimacy. The United Nations’ first and foremost obligation is to protect peace and security as well as to promote international cooperation, in order to solve, among other things, problems of social, economic and humanitarian nature and to encourage the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms on a global scale. In this regard, solidarity and cooperation between the members of the organisation play an important role in promoting human security.
LL.M., Germany; PhD Candidate, University of Heidelberg; guest researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. E-mail: taniagicela@web.de. The author would like to express her gratitude to Professor Dr. Ulrich Beyerlin and Marc Schlagenhoff for critical comments on earlier drafts of this contribution. All views and opinions are personal.
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Bolaños, T. (2010). Military Intervention without Security Council’s Authorisation as a Consequence of the “Responsibility to Protect”. In: Wolfrum, R., Kojima, C. (eds) Solidarity: A Structural Principle of International Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11177-8_6
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