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Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) through their relationship agreements with the UN, which are said to require them to respect the principles of the UN Charter, including, therefore, protection of human rights (although it is not abundantly clear which rights are included). 158 Alternatively, because some human rights standards are part of customary international law – though there is no widespread agreement on what that corpus contains 159 – and international organizations are thought
: The concept of jus cogens operates as a concept superior to both customary international law and treaty. The relief which Article 103 of the Charter may give the Security Council in case of conflict between one of its decisions and an operative treaty obligation cannot – as a matter of simple hierarchy of norms – extend to a conflict between a Security