Hello,

I'd like to know HOW MANY United Nations resolutions the Unites States
is CURRENTLY in violation of. If possible, it would be really helpful
to have the quantities broken down by category (i.e. environment,
Middle East, business law, etc.)

I'd also need to know what resources are out there to collect this information.

Thanks in advance

This is an interesting question, although it would also be interesting
to see that info for other countries as well.  What it really does is
serve to highlight the ineffectiveness of the UN.  If it doesn't have
the teeth to enforce its resolutions, be they against the US or Iraq
or others, then it leaves the door open for individual countries to
say, "While if you don't enforce it we will."  They then can pick and
choose which UN resolutions they wish to enforce, while claiming that
they are just enforcing UN mandates.  A large part of the mess in Iraq
is due to UN resolutions which were not enforced.  Sadaam thumbed his
nose at the UN by kicking out its inspectors and doing everything he
could to not allow inspections for WMD.  He did this because much of
his power in the region came from the reputation for having and being
willing to use WMD.  So even if he no longer had any, it was still in
his interest to make everyone suspect he did, while at the same time
denying it.  I think because the first President Bush stopped short of
all out war on Iraq due to international considerations, he mistakenly
assumed the second one wouldn't do anything without UN approval
either.  I think he felt comfortable in the knowledge that the UN
wouldn't really do anything to enforce the resolution.  Unfortunately,
the US acted independently and called his bluff.

This is a very ambiguous question. Perhaps it would be helpful to
narrow it down yourself, in that, I mean that it depends on where the
resolutions were adopted. If a UN resolution was adopted in the
General Assembly, it is non-binding, but only acts as a
recommendation. Security Council resolutions are binding, but as we
saw last year (and as mentioned by the previous poster), the only loss
was to the UN itself, due to the US's independance. Perhaps what you
are looking for are treaties that the UN is in violation of.
International treaties, such as the Convention of the Rights of the
Child have not been ratified by the US gov't, but has been signed.
This means that the US is not bound by it. Interesting that a country
like Somalia has signed and ratified it, but not by the US. Other
treaties the US hasn't ratified include the 1999 Ottowa Mine Ban
Treaty, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

*Ooops* I mean "Perhaps what you are looking for are treaties that the
*US* is in violation of."

Iraq actually complied fully with weapons inspectors, even if grudgingly.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-17-inspectors-iraq_x.htm