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The Global Centre's mission is to help transform the principle of the responsibility to protect into a cause for action in the face of mass atrocities. Founded by leading figures in government and academia, as well as by International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam International, Refugees International, and WFM-Institute for Global Policy, the Centre recognizes that this emerging norm needs to be broadly explained, clarified, defended from willful misunderstanding, and fleshed out to serve as the basis for practical action.

The Centre engages in advocacy around specific crises; originates and sponsors research designed to further understanding of R2P; recommends and supports strategies to consolidate the norm and help states build capacity; and works closely with NGOs, governments and regional bodies which are seeking to promote and operationalize the responsibility to protect.

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Report of the Secretary General: Early warning, assessment and the responsibility to protect . A/64/864, 14 July 2010

GCR2P Joint-Report on Sudan Referendum Calls for Urgent International Action, Renewing the Pledge: Reengaging the Guarantors to the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Open Letter to the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe on the Situation in Kyrgyzstan, 30 June 2010

Open Letter to the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Kyrgyzstan, 24 June 2010


R2P IN THE NEWS
James Traub, It's Not Too Late to Save Kyrgyzstan, James Traub, Foreign Policy, 23 June 2010

Ken Frazer, UN must intervene in Kyrgyzstan bloodshed, Brisbane Times, 21 June 2010

Responsibility to Protect: a Natural Humanitarian Impulse, The Island, Online (Sri Lanka), 26 April 2010

"Remembering the Unforgettable", Inter Press Service New Agency, 8 April 2010

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