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The Responsibility to Protect

The Responsibility to Protect

Introduction

The Responsibility to protect is a concept of international politics and international law to protect, the people against gross human rights, violations of international humanitarian law and fractures. She was influenced by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty developed (ICISS) in the years 2000/2001 and distributed internationally, although its essential features were already long been in the political and legal discussions. At the 2005 World Summit of the United Nations in New York, she was accepted by almost all countries of the world in general and in Resolution 1674 of the Security Council was named in a legally binding document. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published 2009 highlights a report on implementing the responsibility to protect, which is based on three pillars, and in particular the importance of early detection and initiation of preventive measures for such crimes.

Critics of the concept argue that the responsibility to protect the principle of non interference law could be made in the internal affairs of a State in the United Nations. Charter is enshrined as a principle of law. Furthermore, it is argued that rather than any act of war within a state genocide cost to and that the difficulty of a democratic state-building without historical foundation and after a forced from the interim regime change would often underestimate. Proponents of the standard argue that the responsibility to protect constituted a historic step for the prevention of critical mass crimes.

Discussion

The responsibility to protect, first take the individual state and describes his duty to ensure the welfare of his subordinates by virtue of his personal or territorial jurisdiction citizens. In exercising this responsibility, it is supported by the international community, which plays a subsidiary protection responsibility. However, the political leadership of the State is not able or willing to protect citizens from serious human rights violations, the international community must, primarily engage the United Nations, to protect the endangered population. You are in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations civilian and military means available deciding on their use of the Security Council (BELLAMY & GLANVILLE, 2011, Pp. 59-63).

The theoretical basis is the definition of sovereignty as responsibility (sovereignty as responsibility), according to which a State must take responsibility to protect its population, to qualify as sovereign. The R2P thus helping achieve universal moral standards for the protection of people internationally. As to preventing human rights violations are genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing identified.

Basic Principles

National sovereignty is accompanied by a social responsibility to protect the people. If you do not fulfil the responsibility of the State to protect the international community will serve as their responsibilities. Responsibility of the international community to protect the non-intervention principle takes precedence over (EVANS, 2008, Pp. 22-30).

Responsibility of ICISS

These responsibilities consist of three principal components.

The Responsibility to Prevent

The duty of prevention aims to avoid a situation in which there are serious human rights violations, in particular through the establishment of good governance (providential governance) and the ...