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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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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]
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; Alicia L. Bannon, The Yale Law Journal, "The Responsibility To Protect: The U.N. World Summit and the Question of ...
Vandalism and trolling are major and recurrent problems on Wikipedia. They are also a major part of a wider category of destructive behavior across the internet. It is relatively easy to diminish the quality of content on Wikipedia, even for people who consider the act a joke and are not destructive individuals per se.
R2P asserts that, 'when a state is unwilling or unable to protect its citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, it is the responsibility of the international community to not only react, but to prevent conflict and rebuild the afflicted region' (' "The Responsibility to Protect", International Commission ...
Ability to set fine-grained software blocks on problematic editors, and partially or fully protect targeted articles. Standardized alerts, known as tags, which can be added to any fact or article, and which allow individual facts (or entire sections and articles) to be highlighted as questionable or brought immediately to others' attention.
The term human rights defender (HRD) became commonly used within the international human rights community after the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (A/RES/53/144, 1998), commonly known as the Declaration on Human Rights ...