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Un-Accountable?: A Response to Devika Hovell

Part of: Devika Hovell, “Due Process in the United Nations”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Rosa Freedman
Rosa Freedman*
Affiliation:
Birmingham Law School
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Devika Hovell has provided an excellent call to arms for academics to move beyond the question of whether the United Nations has due process deficiencies: By now we all know that it does. She invites us to focus instead on making “the normative case for adopting due process safeguards in UN decision making,” insisting that until now scholars have failed to ask the important theoretical questions underpinning their policy research. Hovell uses two case studies to demonstrate why resort to judicial mechanisms ought not to be the answer when seeking to find ways to ensure due process. She first focuses on targeted sanctions and then turns attention to cholera in Haiti.

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Symposium on Devika Hovell, “Due Process in the United Nations”
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 8 - 12
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

References

1 Hovell, Devika, Due Process in the United Nations, 110 AJIL 1, 2 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 GA Res. 52/247 (July 17, 1998).

3 Model Status of Armed Forces Agreement for Peace-Keeping Missions, UN Doc. A/45/594, para. 51 (Oct. 9, 1990).

4 Letter dated 24 March 2005 from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly, UN Doc. A/59/710 (Mar. 24, 2005).

5 Marie Deschamps et al., Taking Action on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Peacekeepers (Dec. 17, 2015).

6 Letter dated 15 December 1999 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council, UN Doc. S/1999/1257 (Dec. 16, 1999).

7 Secretary-General, Report pursuant to resolution 53/35, The fall of Srebenica, UN Doc. A/54/549 (Nov. 15, 1999).

8 Secretary-General, Identical Letters dated 21 August 2000 to the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council, UN Doc. A/55/305-S/2000/809 (Aug. 21, 2000).

9 Marzuki Darusman et al., Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka (Mar. 31, 2011).

10 Much has been written about the Haiti Cholera Claims, a selection of which (from different angles) is as follows: Jose Alvarez, The United Nations in the Time of Cholera, AJIL Unbound (April 4, 2014, 12:01 pm); Boon, Kristen, The United Nations as Good Samaritan: Immunity and Responsibility, 16 Chi. J. Int’l L. 341 (2015)Google Scholar; Freedman, Rosa & Lemay-Hebert, Nicolas, ‘Jistis ak reparasyon pou tout viktim kolera MINUSTAH’: The United Nations and the Right to Health in Haiti, 28 Leiden Journal of International Law 507 (2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mégret, Frédéric, La responsabilité des Nations Unies aux temps du cholera, 47 Revue Belge de Droit International 161 (2013)Google Scholar.

11 For information and resources about the issue of sexual violence, peacekeeping and accountability, see the Code Blue Campaign.

12 Expert Workshop on Resolving the Cholera Crisis in Haiti, University of Birmingham.

13 United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah).

14 Alejandro Cravioto et al., Final Report of the Independent Panel of Experts on the Cholera Outbreak in Haiti.

15 Petition for Relief, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.

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18 Lantagne, Daniele et al., The Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Where and How did it begin?, in Cholera Outbreaks (Nair, G. Balakrish & Takeda, Yoshifumi eds., 2014)Google Scholar.

19 Freedman & Lemay-Hebert, supra note 10.

20 Delama Georges v. United Nations, Brief for Appellants, 15-455-cv (2d Cir., May 27, 2015).