Experts from the ECR2P give their take on contemporary issues of human protection

ECR2P and POLIS staff member, Edward Newman, explores the UK’s controversial support for the practice of ‘humanitarian intervention’.   Successive UK governments have claimed that military force across state borders aimed at ending terrible suffering – without the consent of the target state and if necessary without express UN Security...

In collaboration with aidXchange, ECR2P’s Dr Cristina Stefan and Professor Jason Ralph offer their thoughts on the applicability of the Responsibility to Protect to the ongoing situation in Myanmar.   These entries on the Applicability of R2P to the Myanmar crisis first appeared in Global Reconciliation’s Forum on Myanmar, aidXchange....

Elisabeth Pramendorfer, Senior Human Rights Officer at the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, writes on Human Rights Council mandated investigative mechanisms.   The establishment of an investigative mechanism is considered as one of the strongest ways in which the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) can respond...