Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘What we have lost is all the more reason for cherishing what survives’
- 1 Quod severis metes: Birth of the United Nations
- Chapter 2 South African Indians
- 3 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 4 International covenants on human rights
- 5 United Nations surveys of human rights issues
- 6 Evolution of human rights at the United Nations
- 7 State sovereignty at issue
- 8 Apartheid on the agenda
- 9 Shadow of Sharpeville
- 10 General relations with the United Nations
- 11 Concluding observations
- Appendix: Selected provisions of the United Nations Charter
- Sources and references
- Index
Appendix: Selected provisions of the United Nations Charter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘What we have lost is all the more reason for cherishing what survives’
- 1 Quod severis metes: Birth of the United Nations
- Chapter 2 South African Indians
- 3 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 4 International covenants on human rights
- 5 United Nations surveys of human rights issues
- 6 Evolution of human rights at the United Nations
- 7 State sovereignty at issue
- 8 Apartheid on the agenda
- 9 Shadow of Sharpeville
- 10 General relations with the United Nations
- 11 Concluding observations
- Appendix: Selected provisions of the United Nations Charter
- Sources and references
- Index
Summary
Preamble
We the peoples of the United Nations determined
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
and for these ends
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims
Accordingly our respective Governments, through our representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
Article 1
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
1. To maintain international peace and security and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
3. To achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion;
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- Against the WorldSouth Africa and Human Rights at the United Nations 1945–1961, pp. 260 - 266Publisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2017