Can the U.N. impose laws that effect the whole world directly?
i found this quote on a wikipedia article about turtle shell trade:In the late 1970s the United Nations banned all trade of tortoiseshell worldwide.[citation needed].how can the UN impose laws on nations not even part of the UN?
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The U.N. cannot force member nations to do anything, either legally or practically.
They cannot legally do so since membership in the U.N. is voluntary. The only time the U.N. can theoretically "order" another nation to do something is in the case of military agression by that nation (and then only with the *unanimous* consent of the security council which never happens).
They cannot do so practically because, obviously, they have no troops or other armed forces of any kind of their own!
The U.N. frequently pushes politically for the signing of resolutions by member nations. Once the resolution has been signed (voluntarily) by a nation, then it has the same force as any other treaty signed by that country.
Legally they can not.
There's only 2 or 3 sovereign nations that are not part of the UN. So if they ban something, it's pretty much worldwide. I guess technically Vatican City and Western Sahara could continue trading tortoise shells with each other if they wanted to.
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