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The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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Advocates of the responsibility to protect have asserted that nation states that fail to fulfill their essential purpose to protect their people against genocide and other crimes against humanity lose their legitimate right to claim sovereignty. In such circumstances, the United Nations, regional organizations, and other transnational ...
Alexander J. Bellamy (born 1975) [1] is an academic who directs the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and is a professor in the department of peace and conflict studies at University of Queensland.
AlterNet, 19 September 2005, "A Triumph for Decency at the U.N." – on the "Responsibility to Protect" Ian Williams, The Guardian, 20 September 2005, "Annan has paid his dues: The UN declaration of a right to protect people from their governments is a millennial change" Environment and Poverty Times – Summit 2005 Edition
DHDR Article 33 emphasises the duty and responsibility to respect, protect and promote the rights of the child, following the content of the almost universally ratified UN Convention on the Right of the Child (1989) and aware, that although this document is shared broadly by the international community, today millions of children are still ...
In the early days of Wikipedia all editors acted as administrators, and in principle they are encouraged to act with similar responsibility today as well. 2. Administrators (also known as 'admins' or 'sysops') are users trusted to be responsible with a range of Wikipedia's blocking , deletion and protection tools, to review and close various ...
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is a widely endorsed and developing norm aimed at preventing humanitarian atrocities. [1] China has been receptive towards the development of R2P since its inception in 2001, [2] despite China's traditional tendency to obstruct engagement in humanitarian crises. [3]