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Key documents on the Responsibility to Protect
- 2001 Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty on The Responsibility to Protect
- 2004 Report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change on A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility (A/59/565).
- 2005 Report of the Secretary-General on In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security, and Human Rights for All (A/59/2005)
- 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, A/RES/60/1, paragraphs 138-140
- 2024 Report of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect: the commitment to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes” (A/78/901)
- 2009 Report of the Secretary-General on Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (A/63/677)
- 2010 Report of the Secretary-General on Early Warning, Assessment, and the Responsibility to Protect (A/64/864)
- 2011 Report of the Secretary-General on The Role of Regional and Subregional Arrangements In Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (A/65/877-S/2011/393)
- 2012 Report of the Secretary-General on The Responsibility To Protect: Timely and Decisive Response (A/66/874-S/2012/578)
- 2013 Report of the Secretary-General on The Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention (A/67/929-S/2013/399)
- 2014 Report of the Secretary-General on Fulfilling Our Collective Responsibility: International Assistance and the Responsibility To Protect (A/68/947-S/2014/449)
- 2015 Report of the Secretary-General on A Vital and Enduring Commitment: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (A/69/981-S/2015/500)
- 2016 Report of the Secretary-General on Mobilising collective action: the next decade of the responsibility to protect (A/70/999–S/2016/620)
- 2017 Report of the Secretary-General on Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Accountability for Prevention (A/71/1016-S/2017/556)
- 2018 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: from early warning to early action (A/72/884-S/2018/525)
- 2019 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: lessons learned for prevention (A/73/898-S/2019/463)
- 2020 Report of the Secretary-General on Prioritizing prevention and strengthening response: women and the responsibility to protect (A/74/964 - S/2020/501)
- 2021 Report of the Secretary-General on Advancing atrocity prevention: work of the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (A/75/863–S/2021/424)
- 2022 Report of the Secretary-General on Responsibility to protect: prioritizing children and young people (A/76/844-S/2022/428)
- 2023 Report of the Secretary-General on Development and the responsibility to protect: recognizing and addressing embedded risks and drivers of atrocity crimes (A/77/910-S/2023/409)
General Assembly
- The Responsibility to Protect (A/RES/63/308)
- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime (A/RES/69/323)
- The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity (A/RES/75/277)
Security Council
Human Rights Council
- 2008 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide (A/HRC/RES/7/25)
- 2013 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide (A/HRC/RES/22/22)
- 2015 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide (A/HRC/RES/28/34)
- 2016 Resolution on Human Rights and Transitional Justice (A/HRC/RES/33/19)
- 2018 Resolution on Prevention of Genocide (A/HRC/37/L.44)
- Fifteenth anniversary of the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as enshrined in the 2005 World Summit Outcome - 2020 Resolution on the responsibility to protect (A/HRC/44/L.12)
- A/HRC/RES/43/29 (2020) Prevention of genocide
- List of country-specific resolutions compiled by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Resolution 117 (28 November 2007), on Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect in Africa
- European Parliament Recommendation to the European Council (18 April 2013) on the UN principle of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (2012/2143(INI))
- Inter-Parliamentary Union Resolution (27 March 2013) on Enforcing the Responsibility to Protect: The Role of Parliament in Safeguarding Civilians’ Lives
- 2011 Final Report of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Study Group on the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP)
- 2014 Report of the High-Level Panel on the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast-Asia on Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in Southeast Asia: Pathway Towards a Caring ASEAN Community
- "Protecting Vulnerable Populations from Genocide" by Adama Dieng (Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide). Published in UN Chronicle, Vol. LIII No. 4 2016, December 2016
- "The Responsibility to Protect" by Ivan Šimonović (Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect). Published in UN Chronicle, Vol. LIII No. 4 2016, December 2016
- “From Commitment to Action: The Enduring Importance of the Responsibility to Protect” by Adama Dieng (Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide) and Jennifer Welsh (Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect). Published in "The Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme Discussion Papers vol. III", 2015