PoC with Responsibility to Protect

Local to Global Protection

Date Published: 
October 16, 2012

Promoting local perspectives in humanitarian crises Local to Global Protection (L2GP) is an initiative intended to document and promote local perspectives on protection in major humanitarian crises.

Based on studies in Burma/Myanmar, Sudan, South Sudan and Zimbabwe, the L2GP initiative explores what people living in areas affected by natural disasters and complex emergencies do to protect themselves. The studies also describe how people and communities perceive the protection efforts undertaken by others such as local authorities, UN, NGOs, etc.

Security Council Cross Cutting Report: Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

Date Published: 
June 12, 2012

This is Security Council Report’s fifth Cross-Cutting Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict following the publication of our first such report in October 2008. With this report we continue to systematically track the Security Council’s involvement in the protection of civilians since it first emerged as a separate thematic topic in 1999. The report looks at relevant developments at the thematic level since our last cross-cutting report and analyses Council action in country-specific situations relating to the protection of civilians, highlighting the case of Syria.

USG Ladsous Interview: It Takes Time To Achieve Results In Syria

Published May 17, 2012 by NPR News
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The head of United Nations peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous, was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and talked to Michele Kelemen about how many unnamed observers are in Syria and what they are able to do. Ladsous has said that the ongoing violence is appalling. Some in Washington have been calling for stronger measures, including humanitarian corridors or safe zones. But that seems unlikely since it would take a substantial military intervention, not just a few unarmed U.N. observers.

Engaging Nonstate Armed Groups on the Protection of Children: Towards Strategic Complementarity

Author(s): 
Jérémie Labbé
Reno Meyer
Date Published: 
May 15, 2012

This issue brief provides an overview of the legal, political, and operational frameworks protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, notably from violations by nonstate armed groups. The UN Secretary-General has repeatedly emphasized the need to “more consistently and effectively engage non-State armed groups in order to improve their compliance with the law,” including international human rights and international humanitarian law.

South Sudan: UNMISS Has Mandate to Protect Civilians but No Means

Published May 1, 2012 by allAfrica.com
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  Juba — United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS has a mandate in the Chapter VII to protect civilians in South Sudan but it does not have the means to do so.  This was according to Special Representative of the Secretary General Hilde F. Johnson. "I have the mandate to protect civilians but I don't have the means to protect them against aerial bombardments because that would need anti-aircraft missiles," she told The Citizen senior reporters in her office yesterday.

Op-Ed: UN’s options in Syria are poor to nonexistent

Published April 30, 2012 by The Globe and Mail, Canada
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From all-out war to vulnerable pairs of military observers in blue berets, the United Nations Security Council can authorize a full spectrum of intervention.  Observers, peacekeepers, peacemakers – the terms vary as do the mandates. And there is plenty of overlap. Outcomes vary, too.  Some UN missions, such as the traditional buffer-zone peacekeepers still patrolling a “Green Line” in Cyprus after a half-century, seem to become part of an imperfect solution.

Saving Somalia

Published April 24, 2012 by Foreign Policy
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — For the United Nations, the war-torn Somali capital is one of the ultimate "hardship posts." The U.N.'s few foreign employees based there are entitled to lucrative hazard stipends in exchange for living in one of the world's most dangerous cities. But for Turkish aid worker Orhan Erdogan, it is his family's home base.  Erdogan, a 45-year old veteran of crisis zones such as Darfur, moved from Istanbul to Mogadishu last August as the aid group he works for, Kimse Yok Mu, ramped up its efforts in response to the severe famine in the Horn of Africa.

DR Congo: Local Communities on the Front Line

Author(s): 
Erin Weir
Peter Orr
Date Published: 
April 25, 2012

The day-to-day reality for ordinary people in the Democratic Republic of Congo includes all of the following: latent insecurity, ongoing military operations, and systematic attacks by armed groups – including units of the Congolese military. The international community has been providing humanitarian assistance to the DRC for over a decade and a half, but the need remains acute.

Strengthening Preventive Diplomacy and Mediation: Istanbul Retreat of UNSC

Author(s): 
Arthur Boutellis
Christoph Mikulaschek
Date Published: 
April 11, 2012

In early July 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey hosted an informal retreat

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