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The Basic Principles and Guidelines were placed before the UN General Assembly in its 60th sitting. On 16 December 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Basic Principles and Guidelines as Resolution A/RES/60/147 (2005) by consensus. [16] The Basic Principles and Guidelines were officially published by the United Nations in 2006.
Primum non nocere (Classical Latin: [ˈpriːmũː noːn nɔˈkeːrɛ]) is a Latin phrase that means "first, do no harm". The phrase is sometimes recorded as primum nil nocere . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The adopted purposes of the United Nations reflect a premise that are the effective Dumbarton Oaks proposals. I.e. :" To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and ...
The harm principle has an ambiguous definition of what harm specifically is and what justifies a state to intervene. [9] Ben Saunders has also said that the harm principle does not specify on whether the state is justified with intervention tactics. The ambiguity can lead a state to define what counts as a harmful self-regarding action at its ...
The focused scope is part of what the UN Secretary-General has termed a "narrow but deep approach" to the responsibility to protect: A narrow application to four crimes, but a deep approach to response, employing the wide array of prevention and protection instruments available to Member States, the United Nations system, regional and ...
It is often said that "First do no harm" (Latin: Primum non nocere) is a part of the original Hippocratic oath. A related phrase is found in Epidemics, Book I, of the Hippocratic school: "Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient". [7]
"The continued pattern of significant civilian harm resulting from incidents like Sunday's airstrikes undermines Israel's strategic goals in Gaza," deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood ...
[14] [page needed] Nonviolence specifically refers to the absence of violence and the choice to do no harm in deed, speech, or intent. For example, if a house is burning down with mice or insects in it, the most harmless appropriate action is to put the fire out, not to sit by and passively and let the fire burn.