UN Security Council
The Security Council has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security. Organized to function continuously, a representative of each of its members must be present at all times at United Nations Headquarters. The Council consists of 15 members: five permanent members with veto power (China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America) and ten non-permanent members (Membership: Angola (2016), Chad (2015), Chile (2015), Jordan (2015), Lithuania (2015), Malaysia (2016), New Zealand (2016), Nigeria (2015), Spain (2016), Venezuela (Bolivian Republic of) (2016)) five of which are elected each year by the General Assembly for a two-year term. Website: www.un.org/en/sc/
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- Access to water 1
- Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
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- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 5
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
- Capacity building of state institutions 3
- Child soldiers 5
- Children's rights 7
- Children-at-risk 6
- Combatants / Former combatants 5
- Conflict resolution 1
- Conflict situation 7
- Crime prevention 3
- Crimes against humanity 1
- Demobilization / Disarmament 1
- Disappeared persons 1
- Elections 2
- Embargo 15
- Extrajudicial executions 1
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1
- Gender mainstreaming 1
- Gender-based persecution 1
- Good governance 5
- HIV and AIDS 2
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 7
- Humanitarian assistance 9
- Internal armed conflict 28
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 2
- International armed conflict 2
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
- Law of the sea 3
- Maternal and child health care 1
- Military operations 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 1
- Peace process 7
- Peacekeeping 37
- Piracy 31
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- Political situation 39
- Prosecution vs persecution 1
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 5
- Reconciliation 1
- Refugees 1
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- Right to health 1
- Right to life 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
- SGBV 6
- Sanctions 4
- Security forces 6
- Security situation 69
- Terrorism 6
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
- Women's rights 1
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