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Key documents on the Responsibility to Protect
- 2001 Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty on
- 2004 Report of the Secretary-General¡¯s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change on A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility ().
- 2005 Report of the Secretary-General on In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security, and Human Rights for All ()
- 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, , paragraphs 138-140
- 2025 Report of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect: 20 years of commitment to principled and collective action ()
- 2024 Report of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect: the commitment to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes¡± ()
- 2009 Report of the Secretary-General on Implementing the Responsibility to Protect ()
- 2010 Report of the Secretary-General on Early Warning, Assessment, and the Responsibility to Protect ()
- 2011 Report of the Secretary-General on The Role of Regional and Subregional Arrangements In Implementing the Responsibility to Protect ()
- 2012 Report of the Secretary-General on The Responsibility To Protect: Timely and Decisive Response ()
- 2013 Report of the Secretary-General on The Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention ()
- 2014 Report of the Secretary-General on Fulfilling Our Collective Responsibility: International Assistance and the Responsibility To Protect ()
- 2015 Report of the Secretary-General on A Vital and Enduring Commitment: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect ()
- 2016 Report of the Secretary-General on Mobilising collective action: the next decade of the responsibility to protect ()
- 2017 Report of the Secretary-General on Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Accountability for Prevention ()
- 2018 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: from early warning to early action (A/72/884-S/2018/525)
- 2019 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: lessons learned for prevention (A/73/898-S/2019/463)
- 2020 Report of the Secretary-General on Prioritizing prevention and strengthening response: women and the responsibility to protect (A/74/964 - S/2020/501)
- 2021 Report of the Secretary-General on Advancing atrocity prevention: work of the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect ()
- 2022 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: prioritizing children and young people ()
- 2023 Report of the Secretary-General on Development and the responsibility to protect: recognizing and addressing embedded risks and drivers of atrocity crimes ()
General Assembly
- The Responsibility to Protect ()
- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime ()
- The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity ()
- 2025 Tenth anniversary of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime ()
- 2024 Resolution on International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica ()
- 2024 Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions ()
- 2020 Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions ()
- 2019 Resolution on Crimes against Humanity ()
- 2019 Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions ()
- 2017 Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions ()
- 2017 Resolution on Efforts of terrorist Acts Directed against Religious Sites on the Culture of Peace ()
Security Council
- 2019 Resolution () on Silencing the Guns in Africa
- 2018 Resolution () on Youth in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- 2014 Resolution () on Prevention and Fight against Genocide and Other Serious Crimes under International Law
Human Rights Council
- 2008 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- 2013 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- 2015 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- 2016 Resolution on Human Rights and Transitional Justice ()
- 2018 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide (A/HRC/37/L.44)
- 2019 Resolution on Human Rights and Transitional Justice ()
- 2022 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- 2022 Resolution on Human Rights and Transitional Justice ()
- 2024 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- 2026 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide ()
- Fifteenth anniversary of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as enshrined in the 2005 World Summit Outcome -
- African Commission on Human and Peoples¡¯ Rights: Resolution 117 (28 November 2007), on
- European Parliament Recommendation to the European Council (18 April 2013) on the (2012/2143(INI))
- Inter-Parliamentary Union Resolution (27 March 2013) on
- 2011 Final Report of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP),
- 2014 Report of the High-Level Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast-Asia on Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia: Pathway Towards a Caring ASEAN Community
- by Adama Dieng (Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide). Published in UN Chronicle, Vol. LIII No. 4 2016, December 2016
- by Ivan ?imonovi? (Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect). Published in UN Chronicle, Vol. LIII No. 4 2016, December 2016
- by Adama Dieng (Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide) and Jennifer Welsh (Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect). Published in "The Holocaust and Âé¶¹APP Outreach Programme Discussion Papers vol. III", 2015