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

In its infancy there was a need to define what R2P was and how it would be applied. Between 2005 and 2010 R2P appeared in three important UN resolutions or statements. Last year it appeared in six, including four Security Council resolutions on Libya, South Sudan and Yemen. R2P also influenced a major effort to protect civilians in Côte d'Ivoire. In the glacial world of global diplomacy, this represents momentous progress. R2P has moved from theory to practice.
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Romeo Dallaire, GCR2P Patron, discusses R2P in speech on the prevention and elimination of mass atrocities, 9 May 2012

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses R2P in speech to the American Society of International Law, 7 May 2012

Kofi Annan, GCR2P Patron, discusses R2P in speech at Lund University, 24 April 2012

Statement by the Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and R2P on the Launch of the U.S. Atrocities Prevention Board, 23 April 2012

GCR2P Applauds U.S. Leadership on Atrocity Prevention, 23 April 2012

R2P IN THE NEWS
Barack Obama - Atrocity Preventer, Simon Adams, GCR2P Executive Director, op-ed in the Huffington Post, 9 May 2012

Romeo Dallaire, GCR2P Patron, article "Where's Canada's atrocity prevention board?", Ottawa Citizen, 30 April 2012

America Latina y la Responsabilidad de Proteger, Simon Adams, GCR2P Executive Director, Article in Edicion 28 of Perspectiva, 2012

La tregua en Siria, al borde del fracaso, Simon Adams, GCR2P Executive Director, quoted in la Nacion, 27 April 2012

POPULATION AT RISK

The Syrian government’s brutal crackdown in response to protests that began in mid-March 2011 has already claimed the lives of more than to 7,500 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.

Other Populations at Risk

Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo