...or religion' and Article 56 provides that all members 'pledge themselves to take joint and several action in cooperation with the Organization for the...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55'. While the Charter provisions are couched in general language, they impose a legal duty on member states...

...rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion". with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55". In spite of differing opinions on their legal effect, the actual practice of the UN has been that it...

...race, sex, language, or religion". Under Article 56, "All Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55". Yet, according to Article 2(7), nothing contained in the Charter, with the singular exception of the...

...sex, language or religion." Article 56 enjoins that "All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55." Human rights and humanitarian norms have progressively emerged as new rules of the customary international...

...2. UN Charter, article 55. See also article 56 in which members "pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55." 3. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, GA Res. 260A (III), UN GAOR,...

...in accordance with the UN Charter under Article 56, which obliges member states "to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55" (including respect for human rights) (United Nations, 1995: 6). The UN Security Council also utilizes...

...race, sex, language, or religion". In Article 56 all UN members "pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55." The view enjoys considerable support that these rather general provisions were later elaborated on...

...race, sex, language, or religion. "All Members pledge themselves," under Article 56, "to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55." In spite of lingering dissent, the human rights provisions of the charter appear to be accepted (at...

...bound, like all other members of the United Nations, by Article 56 of the Charter "to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization...achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55", which include "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms "(Article...

...health, and related problems."11 For their part, "[a]ll members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes [quoted above]."12 It is in Chapter IX of the Charter that reference is made to the specialized agencies....