Publication Date

8-6-2009

Journal

Global Responsibility to Protect

Abstract

After decades of genocide and other mass atrocities - each followed by the persistent din of 'never again' - UN Member States finally made a tangible commitment to protect vulnerable populations from certain mass atrocities, when they embraced the 'the Responsibility to Protect'. At the UN General Assembly World Summit in 2005, member states adopted - by consensus - paragraphs 138 and 139 of the Summit Outcome Document. Therein heads of state unanimously affirmed that each individual state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, including the prevention of such crimes. This idea is not necessarily new. With the development of international human rights law since 1945, states have increasingly agreed and obligated themselves to protect their populations from grave human rights abuses, such as genocide and crimes against humanity.

Volume

1

Issue

4

First Page

421

Last Page

431

Publisher

Brill

Disciplines

Human Rights Law | Law

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