The 16th report of the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), entitled “Responsibility to Protect: The commitment to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes,” considers worrying global trends, including increasing violations and abuses of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, and articulates challenges that UN member states and the international community have faced in upholding R2P over the past two decades. Within the report the Secretary-General asserts, however, that there are still opportunities to shift the current course of events through a more nuanced and strategic approach to prevention and protection by actors across all levels.

The Global Centre has produced a summary of the report, which is available here: Summary of the UN Secretary-General’s 2024 Report on R2P, Responsibility to Protect: The commitment to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes