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
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