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

University of Leeds PhD Researcher Ben Willis discusses ongoing Security Council consideration of North Korean crimes against humanity.   Since 2014, the UN Security Council has been actively engaged in addressing the human rights situation in North Korea. However, despite the continuing perpetration of crimes against humanity as a matter...

Professor Jason Ralph discusses the United Kingdom’s strategy for atrocity prevention. In April 2014, I published with UNA-UK the report Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in UK Strategy.  Despite the UK’s commitment to R2P it was difficult to identify the use of a distinct ‘atrocity prevention lens’ in the early...

University of Leeds PhD candidate, Richard Illingworth, discusses the topic of United Nations Security Council veto reform.   The Veto Problem The veto power held by the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s five permanent (P5 – Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and China) members presents one of the greatest...