Abstract
At a U.N. World Summit in 2005, the nations of the world approved the “responsibility to protect.” This emerging principle of international law, charges each individual state with the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. If a nation fails to protect its populations from these barbarities, the nations of the world declared that they would act, through the Security Council, in accordance with the U.N. Charter, to stop the violence against innocents everywhere and protect imperiled peoples. In theory, Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter gives the member states the military muscle to intervene inside a sovereign state in order to prevent future Rwandas.
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Felice, William F.
(2008)
"Has the Iraq War Torpedoed the “Responsibility to Protect”?,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 8:
Iss.
10, Article 2.
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https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol8/iss10/2
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