US EditionAfrica: A Growing Gap Between Principle and Implementation - 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect
- Marking two decades since the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect , UN member states and leaders gathered in 2025 for a plenary meeting to review challenges in implementing the doctrine.
- Established in 2005 following inadequate international responses to mass atrocities in Rwanda and the Balkans, R2P requires states to protect their populations from such large-scale human rights violations.
- Speakers highlighted ongoing conflicts becoming more complex and frequent, while criticizing veto powers by permanent Security Council members that hindered swift action.
- Secretary-General António Guterres emphasized that no community is safeguarded from the threat of atrocity crimes and described the Responsibility to Protect as a vital and ethical obligation that has yet to be fully realized.
- Despite 121 member states signing a Code of Conduct to prevent genocide and war crimes, the global community continues to struggle with enforcement and consistency, especially regarding Gaza.
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Africa: A Growing Gap Between Principle and Implementation - 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect
United Nations -- United Nations member states this week reiterated their commitment to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity--at a time when world powers are failing to meet these obligations.
UN chief warns of high number of armed conflicts - teleSUR English
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned of the high number of armed conflicts in the world, and called on member states to remain committed to their responsibility to protect against violence. “We are witnessing the highest number of armed conflicts since the end of the Second World War,” Guterres said during a speech to the General Assembly marking the 20th anniversary of the U.N.’s Responsibility to Protect. The Responsibility…
A Growing Gap between Principle and Implementation: 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect
United Nations member states this week reiterated their commitment to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity—at a time when world powers are failing to meet these obligations. On the 20th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, the UN held a Plenary Meeting to discuss the landmark commitment …
UN chief marks 20th anniversary of Responsibility to Protect, calls for action amid global turbulence
'Two decades on, the Responsibility to Protect remains both an urgent necessity, a moral imperative and an unfulfilled promise,' Antonio Guterres says - Anadolu Ajansı
The Civil Society Forum for the Rights of the Child calls for the protection of children, claiming to be the responsibility of the State to protect them as well as of all those who make "part of this society".
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