Human Rights, Mass Atrocity Prevention and the United Nations Security Council: The Long Road Ahead. About the author. Hardeep S. Puri. Hardeep S. Puri was ...

The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent ...

History of the Declaration · Universal Declaration of... · Foundation

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.

Oct 23, 2023 · As the primary international human rights body, the HRC has the capacity to prevent and respond to mass atrocity crimes, as systematic ...

How can atrocity crimes be prevented? Preventing genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is primarily the responsibility of ...

Nov 9, 2023 · Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

Jan 5, 2024 · States must invest in “alternative” sites for atrocity prevention because “primary” sites such as the Security Council are foreclosed.

Nov 16, 2019 · Such mechanisms play an important role in enabling the international community to assist states in preventing mass atrocities (R2P's Pillar II) ...