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Ban: Turn responsibility into practice now

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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 21 July 2009 - Noon briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Ban Ki-moon today outlined a series of measures designed to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and related crimes against humanity, stressing it is high time to turn the promise of the responsibility to protect into practice.

Agreed to by world leaders in 2005, the responsibility to protect  sometimes known as R2P  holds States responsible for shielding their own populations from genocide and other major human rights abuses and requires the international community to step in if this obligation is not met.

This universal and irrevocable commitment was made at the highest level, without contradiction or challenge. Our common task now is to deliver on this historic pledge to the peoples of the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly, as he presented his latest report on the issue.

Implementing the responsibility to protect - Report of the Secretary-General:
http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/63/677

Watch the entire General Assembly - 96th Plenary meeting (Real media, 37 minutes):
 http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/ga/63/2009/ga090721am.rm

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