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Responsibility to protect
2005 UN global political commitment
Responsibility to protect
The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment that was endorsed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns: preventing genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. The R2P doctrine has become a unanimous and well-established international norm since the early 2000s. The principle of the responsibility to protect is based upon the underlying premise that sovereignty entails a responsibility to protect all populations from mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations. The R2P is based on respect for the norms and principles of international law, especially the underlying principles of law concerning sovereignty, peace and security, human rights, and armed conflict. The R2P has three pillars: Pillar I—The protection responsibilities of the state: "Each individual state has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and...
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