Tag Archives: Protect

28 January 2015

Ambassador Lyall Grant: ‘international community has an equal and shared responsibility to do all it can to protect populations at risk’

On 21 January, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UK Mission to the UN, stated at the UN Special event to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau that: ‘Where a state is failing to act to protect its own citizens or, worse, is actively persecuting and killing them, the international community has an equal and shared responsibility to do all it can to protect populations at risk.’

Source: Statement by Ambassador Lyall Grant of the UK Mission to the UN, at the UN Special event to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau | 21 January 2015

16 September 2014

UN officials: ‘responsibility to protect’ more urgent than ever

Today’s crises, from the horrors in Iraq and Syria to the persistent violence in South Sudan and Ukraine, demand urgent and collective action to stem atrocity crimes and protect civilians, UN officials said during the meeting of the General Assembly to discuss the ‘responsibility to protect’ adopted nearly 10 years ago by world leaders. (more…)

Source: UN News Centre | Amid multiple crises, ‘responsibility to protect’ more urgent than ever – UN officials

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