As member states convened for the Opening of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, they did so not in the aftermath of a protection crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), but in th...

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Sarah Teitt, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Political Sc

A document from civil society organizations, available in English and Spanish. 1. What is the fact-finding mission? An independent and rigorous scrutiny and investigation mechanism. The Independent In...

Mr. President, I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of Friends of R2P. We thank the Special Rapporteur for his report. This year marks two decades since the establishment...

On 8 September 2026, on the margins of the 63rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and the Global Centre for the Respo...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, express our grave concern over escalating violence, instability and  mass atrocity crimes across Ethiopia. Communities across the country continue to e...

On 7 September the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will commence its 63rd session in Geneva. Since its establishment in 2006, the HRC has become the principal multilateral forum through which communitie...

También disponible en español. For many Venezuelans, the unlawful removal of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026 seemed to promise the end of an era – the unraveling of a system of power built under Hugo...

To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 20 August 2026 Sudan: Extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate and ens...

In this episode, we sat down with Daniel Akech, Senior Analyst for South Sudan at the International Crisis Group. Daniel examines the unraveling of South Sudan’s 2018 revitalized peace agreement, incl

The UN General Assembly held a plenary meeting on the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” on 6 July as part of th...

 On 9 July the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect joined the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in New York in hosting the 2026 Evans-Sahnoun Lecture on the Responsibility to Protect...

Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention is a podcast by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. The podcast, hosted by Global Centre Deputy Executive Director Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall, feature

Our country analysis applies an atrocity prevention lens to situations where populations are experiencing, or are at risk of, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing. For eac...

The UN General Assembly held a plenary meeting on the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” on 6 July as part of th...

General Assembly: 97th plenary meeting, 80th session.

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, respectfully urge States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against To...

In this episode we sat down with Chaloka Beyani, the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. During the episode, Special Adviser Beyani explores the role of the UN O

To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 26 June 2026 Sudan: the Human Rights Council should urgently address th...

On 15 June the Oromo Legacy, Leadership and Advocacy Association (OLLAA) and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect held a discussion on the human rights situation in Oromia, Ethiopia fol...

As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly becoming a means of rubber-stamping killing at unprecedented speed and scale, Access Now, Amnesty International, and more than 200 civil society organizations and ...

As the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) marks its twentieth anniversary, the multilateral protection architecture faces growing political, institutional and financial pressures. Established to strengthen...

The UN Secretary-General issued the 18th report on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) titled “Sustained implementation of the responsibility to protect at the national, regional and multilateral leve...

Today, 3 June 2026, the UN General Assembly elected Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2027-2028 term. The UNSC bears the primary...