For too long, the world has stood by in the face of atrocities. The Responsibility to Protect is a commitment to act.
Message from the Executive Director
Following its official launch in 2008, UN Security-General Ban Ki Moon commented that the birth of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, “holds great promise in supporting the endeavours of the international community to take the principle of the responsibility to protect from concept to actuality, from word to deed.”
Interview with Gareth Evans, GCR2P IAB co-chair, on R2P and a Syria peace plan, 23 January 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Address to the Stanley Foundation Conference on the Responsibility to Protect , 18 January 2012
Secretary-General, in Message to Event Marking ‘Declaration by United Nations’, Hails Effort to Delve More Deeply into Organization’s Wartime Origins, 18 January 2012
Gareth Evans, GCR2P IAB co-chair, delivers the opening keynote address at the "Atrocity Reporting and the Responsibility to Protect" press event co-sponsored by GCR2P and the Stanley Foundation , 17 January 2012
R2P IN THE NEWS
GCR2P's latest publication, R2P Monitor, Featured in PassBlue, 20 January 2012
Responsibility to Protect: Ban urges action to make UN-backed tool ‘a living reality’, UN News Centre, 19 January 2012
Who Said Gaddafi Had to Go? Book Review, Gareth Evans, GCR2P IAB Chair, London Review of Books, 20 December 2011
Gareth Evans, GCR2P IAB Chair, and Francis Deng, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, listed as Top Global Thinkers for their work on R2P" Foreign Policy, 29 November 2011
The Syrian government’s brutal crackdown in response to protests that began in mid-March has already claimed the lives of more than to 5,000 Syrians, with tens of thousands more detained and unknown numbers wounded and tortured. These attacks include crimes against humanity, crimes that states committed themselves to protect populations from in adopting the responsibility to protect in 2005. The United Nations Security Council must strongly condemn the unrelenting attacks by the Syrian government on its own people and call for an immediate cessation to the violence.
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