While the legal foundation is being developed, investigators on the ground are already attempting to gather material that could serve as potential evidence in future trials.
Tag: mass atrocities
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As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, a new report published in February by the Syrian Center for Policy Research offered new calculations for death tolls from the conflict: a staggering 470,000 at the end of 2015.
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Recent revelations about the United Nations role in the Madaya siege shows much more needs to be done to implement Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Human Rights Up Front action plan and mainstream the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
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Nearly a decade after its inception at the World Summit, the Responsibility to Protect principle has won the battle of ideas, but there is still much to be done.
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Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch discusses the relationship between Africa and the ICC with IPI’s John Hirsch.
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In this interview, Adama Dieng said that too often, strategic interests of UN member states are placed above human lives.
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Whether mass violence represents genocide or not, the word cannot be an excuse for inaction.
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Fraught with difficulty, can the relationship between humanitarian action, atrocity prevention, and RtoP be improved?
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Information about mass atrocities abounds in Syria, but why have international responses to end them still failed?
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Robert Pape thinks the Genocide Convention and R2P have failed, but Gareth Evans and Ramesh Thakur disagree.
