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: Bolivia (2018), Egypt (2017), Ethiopia (2018), Italy (2018), Japan (2017), Kazakhstan (2018), Senegal (2017), Sweden (2018), Ukraine (2017), Uruguay (2017)) 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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- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 51
- Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
- Capacity building of state institutions 1
- Ceasefire 11
- Child labour 1
- Child soldiers 19
- Children's rights 8
- Children-at-risk 15
- Civil and political rights 2
- Combatants / Former combatants 15
- Conflict prevention 2
- Conflict resolution 4
- Conflict situation 10
- Crimes against humanity 3
- Criminal justice 1
- Demobilization / Disarmament 24
- Democracy 1
- Disappeared persons 1
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
- Effective protection 1
- Elections 22
- Embargo 17
- Extrajudicial executions 1
- Forced relocation 1
- Foreign occupation 2
- Freedom of movement 9
- Gender-based persecution 1
- Generalized violence 1
- Genocide 2
- Good governance 2
- HIV and AIDS 2
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 21
- Human rights law 1
- Human rights monitors 5
- Humanitarian assistance 36
- Immigrants 1
- Impunity 4
- Integration 2
- Internal armed conflict 70
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 19
- International armed conflict 3
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 9
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
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- Migrants 1
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- Peacekeeping 80
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- Piracy 7
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- Political situation 63
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 20
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
- Reconciliation 3
- Refugees 8
- Reintegration 4
- Resettlement 4
- Return conditions 1
- Right to liberty and security 1
- Right to self-determination 2
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 3
- Sanctions 8
- Security forces 14
- Security situation 83
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 17
- Small arms 7
- Terrorism 10
- War crimes 3
- Women's rights 1
- Women-at-risk 4
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