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4 days ago · The process that led to the independence of the Oriental State of Uruguay (now the Oriental Republic of Uruguay) began with the 1810 revolution and lasted until the 1828 Preliminary Peace Convention and the enactment of the first constitution in July 1830.
4 days ago · The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, dating back to 1933, is recognized as one of the most crucial bases of international law. In it, four criteria for statehood are recognized: a permanent population; a defined territory; an effective government; and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
2 days ago · International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey. In internation relations, actors are simply the individuals and collective entities, such as states and international ...
2 days ago · The UN Charter does not recognize religious beliefs as a legitimate basis for making territorial claims, and the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) outlines qualifications for statehood that include a “defined territory, permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter relations with other states.”.
3 days ago · This constitutes a differential factor with the other nations of South America, based on the criterion of universality of rights and the Montevideo Convention of 1933, on the rights and duties of national states.
4 days ago · The Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development contributes to laying the foundations for people-centered sustainable development with equality and a human rights, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and intercultural perspective, taking into account migration status, according to the authorities and delegates from 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries, from United Nations ...
1 day ago · Because a state can only be admitted to membership in the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that are considered sovereign according to the Montevideo Convention are not members of the UN.
