An ideal of innocence kept alive
Sep 23, 2020
2 minutes
Fifteen years ago this month, 113 member states of the United Nations voted to commit themselves to a new ideal. They each signed on to a responsibility to protect their own citizens from genocide, war crimes, and gross human rights abuses. If they failed, other states had a responsibility to step in.
The principle, called a “responsibility to protect” and
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