It protects rights by creating a society where other rights are not in danger
If you are talking about the 1990s, the U.N. was not able to
help much. In Rwanda, it stood by as the
ethnic cleansing ran wild and many died as a result. In Bosnia, many U,N. peacekeepers
were either held hostage or shot by militias.
It was the intervention of the French in Rwanda and Americans in Bosnia
that turned things around.
