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Saving Lives, Safeguarding Human Rights, and Ending Genocide: Chapter 2

UN Task Force Report Briefing

Three experts with the Task Force on the United Nations discussed the UN's performance in preventing and responding to genocide and gross human rights violations.  Some key recommendations included:

  • Providing immediate U.S support for initiatives to halt the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, including the assembly of a U.S. coordinated package of assistance for African Union deployment in Darfur that will serve as a force multiplier, and support for establishment of a no-fly-zone.
  • Urging the U.S. government to endorse and call upon the UN and its members to "affirm a responsibility of every sovereign government to protect its own citizenry and those within its borders from genocide, mass killing, and massive and sustained human rights violations."
  • Abolishing the current UN Human Rights Commission, and establish a new Human Rights Council, ideally composed of democracies and dedicated to monitoring, promoting, and enforcing human rights.

Speakers

  • Ivo Daalder
    The Brookings Institution, Expert with the Task Force on the United Nations
  • Lee Feinstein
    Council on Foreign Relations, Expert with the Task Force on the United Nations
  • Tod Lindberg
    Hoover Institution, Lead Expert with the Task Force on the United Nations
  • Sloan Mann, U.S. Institute of Peace, Moderator

Media Inquiries

Please contact the Office of Public Affairs and Communications at 202.429.3832.

Start Date: 
June 28, 2005 - 10:30am
End Date: 
June 28, 2005 - 11:30am

Location

U.S. Institute of Peace
1200 17th St., NW
Washington, D.C.
Directions

Media Inquiries

Members of the media are asked to contact Lauren Sucher (lsucher@usip.org) in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications.

Type

Public Event