ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the international law in regulating authority exercised by the United Nations (UN) Security Council and its subsidiary organs over individuals. One of the phenomena that characterise the contemporary relations between the UN Security Council and individuals is that the Security Council has constituted individuals as the addressees of its Chapter VII resolutions. Whether or not the UN Security Council could impose an obligation on actors other than member states and UN organs was one of the questions involved in the Kosovo Independence opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice in July 2010. While it may be difficult to oblige the UN to ensure respect for all the human rights established under customary international law, less controversial is the observance of human rights established as jus cogens. A final and related approach upholds that the international legal personality of the UN necessarily entails its human rights obligations.
