The General Assembly Adopts Declaration on the Right to Peace
On November 18th, the General Assembly established the Declaration on the Right to Peace. Many States and civil society groups have been fighting for the recognition of this right for twenty years. This lengthy process was due to the great lack of consensus as to the meaning of the concept of peace as a right and because it would increase the obligations of States, for example, to actively and transparently control the arms trade and to suppress the illegal sale of these. The first attempt to adopt peace as a...