(Un)accountable: Who Shall Hold the United Nations Accountable for its Human Rights Breaches? International Arbitration and Insurance Coverage as Two Viable Solutions to the UN Accountability Dilemma

Amin R. Yacoub
Becky Briggs
Vol. 28
May 2024
Page 139

The United Nations (“UN”) is the guardian of human rights. Such guardianship is praise-worthy; nevertheless, UN peacekeepers breach human rights in host countries more frequently than not. If this is a factual truth, an inevitable question arises: who holds the guardian of human rights accountable for breaching human rights? Currently, there is no upstanding legal venue capable of adjudicating human rights breaches of International Organizations, especially the UN. Our aim in this research is to scrutinize the academically suggested administrative, legal, and quasi-legal mechanisms to arrive at an adequate and feasible legal mechanism to hold the UN accountable for its human rights breaches. This research suggests and evaluates two alternative accountability mechanisms for the UN, namely international arbitration and insurance coverage.

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