VIOLENT CRACKDOWN ON #ENDSARS PROTESTS IN NIGERIA Demonstrations against police brutality and poor governance in Nigeria have resulted in several deaths after security forces opened fire at a...
The Honorable Michael R. Pompeo Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo, We write to you as 35 organizations deeply concerned about...
Starvation as a weapon of war in South Sudan Last Tuesday, 6 October, the Commission on Human Rights (CoHR) in South Sudan released a report alleging that government troops and armed opposition...
Today, 13 October, the UN General Assembly elected Bolivia, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan to the...
Since armed hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia escalated in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on 27 September, there have been widespread reports of forces indiscriminately shelling and using other...
On 24 September the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) issued two major reports, one examining the detention system in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where an estimated...
UN investigation documents crimes against humanity in Venezuela On 16 September the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM) released a landmark report that identified...
by Dr. Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect The Responsibility to Protect was adopted unanimously and without equivocation by the UN General Assembly in...
ARMED INSURGENCY AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN MOZAMBIQUE Mozambique’s defense ministry has condemned recent video footage that appears to show four men in army uniforms executing a naked woman...
R2P Monitor is a bimonthly bulletin applying the atrocity prevention lens to populations at risk of mass atrocities around the world. Issue 53 looks at developments in Afghanistan, Cameroon, China,...