Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)

In this week's issue of Atrocity Alert: 3 months since the #MyanmarMilitaryCoup, the deadly crackdown continues Despite peace talks, attacks on civilians increase in Afghanistan 370,000 children displaced by ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic... For our full analysis: https://lnkd.in/dXFnrKi #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

"Let’s be very clear, not one more bullet, bayonet or bomb should be sold to Myanmar’s military junta. A global arms embargo is the very least the UN Security Council can and should do." This morning our Executive Director, Dr. Simon Adams, delivered pointed remarks at a UN Correspondents Association press conference on the launch of a joint call from more than 200 NGOs urging the UN Security Council to impose a global arms embargo on Myanmar. Full remarks: bit.ly/3ejWduM

#NotOneBulletMore should be sold to #Myanmar as long as they continue to be used on peaceful protesters. We've joined 200+ organizations demanding the UN Security Council (UNSC) impose a global arms embargo to halt #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. Condemnation has not halted the bloodshed. It is time for the UNSC to use its power to protect civilians in Myanmar....

TOMORROW 10 AM NY TIME Join our Executive Director, Dr. Simon Adams, along with US Campaign for Burma's Myra Dahgaypaw, Human Rights Watch's Louis Charbonneau, Global Justice Center's Akila Radhakrishnan and Amnesty International's Lawrence Moss for a UN Correspondents Association press conference on the release of an urgent joint appeal by 200+ NGOs calling on the UN Security Council to impose a global arms embargo on #Myanmar. Registration required https://bit.ly/3nLmC...7Q #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Today marks 6 months of war and atrocities in #Tigray, #Ethiopia. While ensuring unfettered access for humanitarian partners and conducting investigations are important, this crisis will not be solved by aid or investigations alone. Fighting remains ongoing leaving vulnerable populations desperately in need of a ceasefire to halt the atrocities, ensure proper assessment of humanitarian needs and allow for an independent, comprehensive investigation into all violations of i...nternational humanitarian and human rights laws. More from our Ethiopia expert, Sarah Ewing (Hunter) and Deputy Executive Director, Savita Pawnday. #TigrayCantWait See the Global Centre's analysis on the crisis in Tigray and more: bit.ly/EthiopiaCrisis

"The present crisis in Myanmar demands, unequivocally, to be treated as an R2P one...The Tatmadaw and the other security forces it directs have been, and continue to be, guilty of the most heinous crimes against humanity. The situation cries out, as a result, for more robust UN Security Council action than just statements of concern, useful as they have been (and pleasing as it has been to see their non-blocking by China and Russia). And it cries out for more committed, effective action, by every state and organisation, including The ASEAN Secretariat, capable of some impact, however small, in honouring the principles to which all of them signed up in 2005." Check out our International Advisory Board Chair, Prof. the Hon Gareth Evans, latest on #whatshappeninginmyanmar

In this week's issue of Atrocity Alert: Dozens killed during inter-communal clashes in West Darfur Counterterrorism, airstrikes and civilian casualties in the Central Sahel Sanctions and reparations at the International Criminal Court - ICC... For the full issue bit.ly/AtrocityAlert247

Yesterday our Research Director Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall spoke on Al Jazeera English's The Stream regarding the situation in Cabo Delgado Mozambique. Attacks on civilians by armed groups, as well as abuses perpetrated by security forces, may amount to possible war crimes & crimes against humanity. More

Today marks 27 years since the start of the #RwandaGenocide against the Tutsi. During the 100 days that followed over 800,000 Rwandans were killed. To honor victims & survivors the international community should uphold our collective responsibility to protect (#R2P) populations at risk of atrocities. #Kwibuka27

"This is not an article I had expected, intended or wanted to write...The photos from Myanmar calling on the world to honour the R2P principle is the most poignant riposte possible by victims themselves. So much so that doing nothing would be yet one more shameful betrayal of our common humanity at the most basic level. The pleas for credible and effective R2P action clearly show the extent to which the power of R2P as a mobilising norm has penetrated deeply and taken root in... civil society in countries in need. Even more importantly, victims see in R2P the potential for international action that challenges and changes the facts on the ground in Myanmar. Silence in the face of the atrocities is immoral and condemnation is an inadequate response to the deliberate and large-scale use of deadly force by Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw." See the article written by our former International Advisory Board member Ramesh Thakur for more on #whatshappeninginmyanmar.

This year has been unprecedented for all of us. We’ve seen societies grind to a halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite calls for peace by the UN Secretary-General, armed conflicts have continued to rage around the globe. At the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect we have continued to provide expert analysis on situations where populations are at risk of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. We launched a new website to make our analysis more ...accessible to governments, civil society partners and the public. We’ve continued to monitor over 20 crisis situations around the world and publish weekly Atrocity Alerts that highlight emerging risks. We’ve continued to bring experts together online to discuss how to prevent atrocities and protect human rights. Our staff have also been featured in discussions on atrocity risks in Cameroon, China, Myanmar, DRC, Ethiopia and many other situations where populations are persecuted, displaced and vulnerable. But there is still more to be done. We are looking forward to 2021 and continuing to work for a more just post-COVID-19 world, where human rights are universally respected, and the international community consistently upholds its responsibility to protect. We wish you a safe and healthy holiday season! #YearInReview2020 For more on our work: https://www.globalr2p.org/

In this week's issue of Atrocity Alert: New eyewitness reports of ethnic killings in Ethiopia’s Tigray region 2 years since Stockholm Agreement, Yemeni civilians continue to suffer 300 students still missing after gunmen attack school in Nigeria... For our full analysis: bit.ly/AtocityAlert233

"When humanitarian aid is systematically blocked and denied to civilians in a war zone it starts to look less like ‘logistical problems’ and more like weaponizing hunger. Our Executive Director, Dr. Simon Adams, was quoted in this APNews article on the ongoing situation in Tigray, Ethiopia. https://apnews.com//international-news-coronavirus-pandemi

Join our Publications Director, Ms. Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall, next week for this event on the 15th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the 20th anniversary of Women Peace and Security (WPS). Register: https://bit.ly/3n8C9gS

Yesterday our Executive Director, Dr. Simon Adams, spoke on a virtual panel marking the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the UN. "And the upside of the expansion of mass media and digital communications is that it has allowed us to peer behind closed borders and has given us the potential to expose the crimes of perpetrators like never befo...re. Evidence of what is happening in the darkest dungeon, beside the most remote mass grave, or inside any killing zone, is just one click of an iPhone away. And so, I would like to end by saying that just as not all media is malignant, not all content is equal. There should be no space on any mass media or social media platform for genocide deniers or for those who use it to incite violence or promote the politics of the machete, the concentration camp or the mass grave. But the antidote to hate speech is speech that promotes and protects everyone’s human rights. And in these times of global crisis with an unprecedented 80 million people displaced by persecution, conflict and atrocities we need mass media to do what it does best; tell uncomfortable truths, expose unconscionable crimes, and report on conflict and human rights in ways that mobilize empathy and action, rather than promoting apathy and indifference to human suffering." For Dr. Adams' full remarks: bit.ly/373lw0u