80 Jahre UN - Auslaufmodell oder Schlüssel zu Frieden und Menschenrechten - mit Andreas Zumach -

The AnStifter and other cooperation partners cordially invite you to a lecture and discussion with Andreas Zumach at the Haus der Katholischen Kirche, Stuttgart

After the deep rupture of civilization in the years 1933-1945, the prohibition of violence between states was enshrined as binding international law in the founding charter of the United Nations (UN) on 24 October 1945. And with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, individual human rights were defined for the first time in history and agreed with universal validity for all, now 193, states.

80 years later, these advances in civilization are under threat as never before. The norms of international law are being violated more and more frequently and increasingly blatantly called into question - most recently by the German government (on the war in Gaza). As a result of open obstruction and a lack of political and financial commitment on the part of its member states, the UN is less and less able to fulfill its core tasks as set out in the 1945 Charter - peace, human rights and development for all of the world's inhabitants. President Trump is escalating the course against the UN: with his private parallel organization "Board of Peace", he apparently wants to destroy the UN; he wants to take over Greenland, disregarding the right of peoples to self-determination.

The architecture of bilateral and multilateral arms control and disarmament agreements that has developed since the 1970s and is so important for international security has been largely destroyed. At the same time, global military spending has continued to reach new record highs since 2020. Were the last eight decades just a fair-weather period, just an interwar period like the years between 1919 and 1939? Or can the international law and human rights norms agreed in 1945 et seq. still be saved?