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Le Conseil de sécurité doit-il respecter les droits de l'homme dans son action coercitive de maintien de la paix?

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The UN Security Council has to respect, in its coercive peace-keeping action, those human rights which are not peremptory and which are inscribed in the basic instruments for the protection of human rights drawn up under UN auspices, except when this is incompatible with the pursued objective of safeguarding peace. It is also bound, according to the Charter, by the (only obligatory) international customary law of human rights. That is also an obligation conditioned by the success of its peace-keeping action. Finally, the Security Council has to respect the international peremptory law of human rights.