The responsibility to protect revisited

The landmark report on The Responsibility to Protect was published with exceptionally bad timing in December 2001. Yet the concept has proven remarkably resilient and gained rapid traction in international policy as well as in the humanitarian and scholarly communities, culminating in the adoption of the new norm by world leaders meeting at the United Nations in the autumn of 2005.

Related Subject(s): Droits de l'homme et réfugiés