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The minister threatened legal action if the international organisation did not provide her ministry with the required records by November 15 at the latest.AdvertisementFounded on October 24, 1946, with 193 member states, the UN works to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and promote social progress, better living standards and human rights.
“Finding that the U.N. and the eight individual defendants are immune from this action under international and federal law, we deny the plaintiff’s motion for default judgment and grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in its entirety with prejudice,” the judge said.Under Article II, section 2 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, the U.
Victims and their families filed a suit against the UN before a court in the United States, but the suit was dismissed in August 2016 on the grounds that the UN and its employees enjoyed immunity from prosecution.Summarily, the United Nations and all its subsidiary bodies, of whatever nature, are immune from every form of legal process.
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