by Karen Smith, UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect Fifteen years since the adoption of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), I would like to reflect on what it is, at...
PATTERN OF DEADLY VIOLENCE INTENSIFIES ACROSS THE SAHEL Ongoing inter-communal clashes between rival “self-defense groups” and attacks by armed Islamist groups pose a growing threat to civilians...
UN REPORT EXPOSES ONGOING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN NORTH KOREA On 28 July the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report detailing human rights violations against...
GROWING INTER-COMMUNAL VIOLENCE PLAGUES DARFUR Violence and insecurity are increasing throughout the Darfur region of Sudan, where dozens of people have been killed and several villages destroyed in...
SOME GOVERNMENTS UTILIZE COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO ABUSE HUMAN RIGHTS Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March, the spread of the virus has intensified political...
Joint NGO Statement to Commemorate International Justice Day, 17 July 2020 Following its capture of Mosul on 10 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began to target northern Iraq's...
La crise au Sahel s’aggrave. Les violences, parfois extrêmes, perpétrées par diverses catégories d’acteurs, se multiplient et produisent des déplacements massifs de population. Des milliers d’écoles...
The crisis in the Sahel is worsening. The increasing violence, which is sometimes extreme and perpetrated by various categories of actors, is forcing many people to flee. The closure of thousands of...
R2P Monitor is a bimonthly bulletin applying the atrocity prevention lens to populations at risk of mass atrocities around the world. Issue 52 looks at developments in Afghanistan, Cameroon, China,...
15th Russian veto condemns millions of Syrians to possible starvation Yesterday, 7 July, Russia and China jointly vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution to renew the mandate for UN...