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

UN Task Force Report Briefing

Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 / Time: 6:30am - 7:30am 

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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

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