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United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1601–1700
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1601–1700 are 100 resolutions adopted across 2005 and 2006, including Chapter VII resolutions on Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Burundi.
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 201–300
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 201–300 are 100 resolutions adopted from 1965 to 1970, addressing Cyprus, Southern Rhodesia sanctions, the 1965 India-Pakistan war, and new members like Singapore.
United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclear program of Iran
United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Iran's nuclear program: Resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747, 1803, 1835, and 1929 (2006-2010) demanded enrichment suspension and imposed sanctions; Resolution 2231 (2015) endorsed the JCPOA and terminated them, before the 2025 snapback reinstated all six.
United Nations Security Council resolutions implementing the Dayton Agreement
The United Nations Security Council resolutions implementing the Dayton Agreement, adopted between November and December 1995, gave the Bosnia peace agreement Security Council force, authorizing IFOR and lifting the arms embargo.
United Nations Security Council resolutions on Afghanistan after the 2021 Taliban takeover
The United Nations Security Council resolutions on Afghanistan after the 2021 Taliban takeover maintained the 1988 Taliban sanctions regime while carving out humanitarian aid through Resolution 2615.
United Nations Security Council resolutions on Croatia
The United Nations Security Council resolutions on Croatia, Resolution 779 of 1992 to Resolution 1023 of 1995, addressed the UN-protected areas and the UN force there.
United Nations Security Council resolutions on the fall of Srebrenica and Žepa (1995)
Four UN Security Council resolutions of 1995 responding to the Bosnian Serb seizure of the Srebrenica and Žepa safe areas, from withdrawal demands to findings of mass executions.
United Nations Security Council resolutions on the former Yugoslavia
Situation-specific set of UN Security Council resolutions on the former Yugoslavia, 1991–1995: Resolution 713 arms embargo, 743 UNPROFOR, 757 sanctions, safe areas, and Dayton-implementing Resolution 1022.
United Nations Security Council sanctions escalation against Iran (2007–2010)
The United Nations Security Council sanctions escalation against Iran (2007–2010) was a series of resolutions, 1747, 1803, 1835, and 1929, tightening sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
United Nations Security Council veto power
UN Security Council veto power: the right of the P5 (China, France, Russia, UK, US) under Article 27(3) to block substantive resolutions; finalized at Yalta 1945; abstention is not a veto; France and UK unused since 1989.
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti
MINUSTAH (Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti) was the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, deployed 1 June 2004 to 15 October 2017 under resolution 1542, marked by the 2010 earthquake, cholera, and abuse allegations, succeeded by MINUJUSTH.
United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium
UNTAES was the UN transitional administration (15 January 1996 to 15 January 1998) that peacefully reintegrated Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, the last Serb-held part of Croatia, under the Erdut Agreement.
United Nations Treaty Collection
The United Nations Treaty Collection (UNTC) is the UN's official online repository of treaties, combining the United Nations Treaty Series with status tracking for treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
United Nations Treaty Series
The United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) is the UN Secretariat's single series of treaties Member States must register under Article 102 of the UN Charter, published since 1946 in over 2,700 volumes.
United Nations trust territories
UN trust territories were 11 territories placed under the International Trusteeship System (Chapter XII, UN Charter, 1945), administered by seven states and supervised by the Trusteeship Council; all attained independence or free association, the last being Palau in 1994.
United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (بعثة الأمم المتحدة والاتحاد الأفريقي في دارفور)
UNAMID (بعثة الأمم المتحدة والاتحاد الأفريقي في دارفور), the joint AU–UN hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan, authorized 2007, took over from AMIS 31 December 2007, and closed 31 December 2020 under resolution 2559.
United States atrocity crimes
United States atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes as defined under the Rome Statute and U.S. federal law. Covers domestic statutes, DOJ and FBI enforcement, and U.S. non-membership in the ICC.
United States Court for China (美国驻华法院)
The United States Court for China (美国驻华法院) was a federal court seated in Shanghai from 1906 to 1943, exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over Americans in China under the 1844 treaty, until the January 11, 1943 Sino-American treaty abolished it.
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements is the official bound compilation of treaties that collected the individual pamphlet issues of the Treaties and Other International Acts Series.
United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
US withdrawal from the JCPOA: President Trump's May 8, 2018 exit from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal via a presidential memorandum, reimposing US sanctions, prompting Iranian noncompliance from 2019 and the 2025 UN snapback.
United States-Israel FUTURES Act
United States-Israel FUTURES Act of 2026 (S. 3855/H.R. 7540), a bipartisan bill by Budd, Gillibrand, Jackson, and Davis establishing a US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative with $150M annual funding; not passed standalone, carried into FY2027 NDAA Sections 219/1217.
Universal Copyright Convention
Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), copyright treaty adopted at Geneva 6 September 1952 under UNESCO, revised at Paris 1971; © notice rule, 25-year minimum term, 100 members, bridge between Berne and non-Berne countries.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a United Nations declaration adopted in Paris in 1948, with 30 articles of fundamental human rights, the world's most translated document.
Universal jurisdiction
Universal jurisdiction lets national courts prosecute genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and enforced disappearance regardless of where committed or offender nationality; rooted in piracy doctrine, expanded since the Eichmann and Pinochet cases.
Unratified California treaties of 1851–1852
The unratified California treaties of 1851–1852, also called the Barbour Treaties, were eighteen US treaties with California Indian groups that the Senate rejected in 1852.
UNSCOM and UNMOVIC
UNSCOM and UNMOVIC were the United Nations commissions that verified the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction between 1991 and 2007 under Resolution 687.
Valdecy Urquiza
Valdecy Urquiza, Brazilian Federal Police commissioner from São Luís, Maranhão, elected INTERPOL Secretary General on 7 November 2024; first Brazilian and first developing-nation official to lead INTERPOL, mandate to 2030.
Vespasian Pella
Vespasian V. Pella (1897–1952) was a Romanian jurist and diplomat regarded as a founder of international criminal law and an early advocate of a permanent international criminal court.
Veto of the Syrian chemical weapons referral resolution
On 22 May 2014 Russia and China vetoed a French-drafted Security Council resolution referring the situation in Syria since 2011 to the International Criminal Court, voting 13 to 2.
Veto use by permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
Veto use by permanent members of the United Nations Security Council covers the veto records of the US, Russia, China, the UK, and France since 1946.