Reading Material

Prevention Press, Auschwitz Institute, June 2022

Atrocity Alert: Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and North Korea

Atrocity Alert: Ethiopia, Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Global Landmine Report 18 November 2020

R2P Monitor, Issue 54, 15 November 2020

Atrocity Alert: Ethiopia, China and Mozambique 11 November 2020

Genocide and Crime against Humanity in Xinjiang?: Applying the legal test, Asia Pacific Centre for Responsibility to Protect, November 2020

Atrocity Alert: Cote d’Ivoire, Myanmar (Burma), and Democratic Republic of Congo 4 November 2020

Updated Invitation – Preventing Atrocities with a WPS Perspective_ A Myanmar Case Study

Invitation – UN response to atrocities_ A conversation with Ambassador Gert Rosenthal and Charles Petrie

Simon Adams – ‘It Could Happen Here’: The US Election and the Threat of Violence 30 October 2020

Invitation for Preventive Atrocities with a Women, Peace and Security Perspective: A Myanmar Case Study 11 November 2020

Atrocity Alert: Nigeria, the Sahel and Cote d’Ivoire 21 October 2020

Atrocity Alert: South Sudan and Guinea 14 October 2020

Global Centre for R2P – UN Human Rights Council Elections for 2021-2023 and the Responsibility to Protect 13 October 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Atrocity Perpetrators Don’t Belong on the UN Human Rights Council 8 October 2020

Atrocity Alert: Nagorno-Karabakh, Central African Republic and Sudan 7 October 2020

Atrocity Alert: China, Cote d’Ivoire and Nagorno-Karabakh 30 September 2020

The Responsibility to Protect at 15: A Promise Unfullfilled by Prof. Alex Bellamy, Director of APR2P 21 September 2020

R2P Monitor, Issue 53, 15 September 2020

Atrocity Alert: Myanmar, Libya and International Day to Protect Education From Attack 9 September 2020

Atrocity Alert: Myanmar (Burma), Lake Chad Basin and Human Rights Defenders Under Attack 26 August 2020

A Reflection on the Responsibility to Protect in 2020 by Dr. Karen Smith, UN Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect 17 August 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Summary of the UN Secretary-General’s 2020 Report on R2P 6 August 2020

Atrocity Alert: North Korea, Yemen and Iraq 5 August 2020

Asia Centre – Hate Speech in Southeast Asia 2020

Atrocity Alert: Sudan, Central African Republic and Hate Speech 29 July 2020

Atrocity Alert: Covid-19, Venezuela and Afghanistan 22 July 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Mounting Evidence that China is Perpetrating Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against the Uighurs, 21 July 2020 

UN Human Rights Council adopts first thematic resolution on the Responsibility to Protect 17 July 2020

Statement on the World Day for International Justice 17 July 2020R2P Monitor, Issue 52, 15 July 2020 

Margherita Buso – The Responsibility to Protect: A Disputed Matter 13 July 2020

Statement on the 25th Anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Mali 8 July 2020

Invitation – On the brink: The relationship between human rights violations and the threat of atrocity crimes

Invitation – Mass Atrocities & International Justice: An Effective Deterrent?

Atrocity Alert: China, Myanmar (Burma) and UN Human Rights Council 1 July 2020

Overcoming atrocities: An opportunity for change in Burundi

Atrocity Alert: UN Refugee Global Trends Report, Afghanistan and Cameroon 24 June 2020

2020-2021 UN Security Council Elections and the Responsibility to Protect

Atrocity Alert: Children and Armed Conflict, Nigeria and Libya 17 June 2020

Atrocity Alert: The United States, Iraq, and Sudan 3 June 2020 

Atrocity Alert: Report on Conflict Displacement, South Sudan and Myanmar, 27 May 2020

Atrocity Alert: Burundia, and Syria 21 May 2020

Invitation – A conversation with the UN Special Advisers on the Responsibility to Protect

Global Centre for R2P – R2P Monitor, Issue 51, 15 May 2020

Invitation – The ICJ provisional measures: Is Myanmar protecting the Rohingya from genocide?

Atrocity Alert: The Democratic of the Congo and South Sudan 13 May 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and our responsibility to prevent atrocities 

Global Centre for R2P – How a UN Board of Inquiry Failed to Address the Real Problem in Syria

Atrocity Alert: The Sahel, Nigeria and Central African Republic 6 May 2020

Atrocity Alert: Universal Jurisdiction, Cameroon and Niger 29 April 2020

Atrocity Alert: Burundi, Burkina Faso and COVID-19 22 April 2020

Statement by the Network of Friends of R2P – Cambodia to remember the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge

Atrocity Alert: Yemen, Syria, and Burkina Faso 16 April 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Atrcoity Prevention During a Global Pandemic 14 April 2020

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Myanmar, and Sudan 8 April 2020

Why it’s important that the world still reflects on Rwanda’s genocide?

Is there a Responsibility to Protect the world from pandemics?

Special Issue: COVID-19, conflict and the thread of atrocities 01 April 2020

The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities Expanding Online Course Offerings to Global Audience in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

Atrocity Alert: North Korea, Central African Republic, and Burundi 18 March 2020

Global Centre for R2P – R2P Monitor, Issue 50, 15 March 2020 

Global Centre for R2P – Syria: Nine Years of Atrocities, Impunity and Inaction 14 March 2020

Atrocity Alert: Greece/Turkey, South Sudan and Afghanistan 11 March 2020

Global Centre for R2P – Policy Actions for Member States on R2P’s 15th Anniversary 09 March 2020

Atrocity Alert: India, China and Syria 04 March 2020

Comment: Why Asean must act on ICJ ruling on the Rohingya

Global Centre for R2P – New Program for genocide and mass atrocity practitioners launching at Binghamton University 20 February 2020

More than 6,000 bodies found in Burundi mass graves 

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Cameron and Central Africa Republic 12 February 2020

Khmer Times Editorial – Cambodia’s transitional economy: Issues to be resolved

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect – International Justice is Finally Catching Up with Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir  

Atrocity Alert: Yemen, Central African Republic and Iraq 5 Febraury 2020

Malaysia views ICJ approval of genocide application as a step in right direction

Surviving genocide: a voice from colonial Namibia at the turn of the last century

The Royal Government of Cambodia decided to replace H.E. Ambassador Pou Sothirak with H.E. Mr. Tuy Ry, Undersecretary of MFAIC, as Cambodian R2P National Focal Point 

Atrocity Alert: China, Sudan & Syria 6 November 2019

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia 30 October 2019

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Burkina Faso and Burundi 16 October 2019

Venezuela should not be elected to the Human Rights Council

Syria: the disgraceful stain left by the UN Security Council veto

Atrocity Alert: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Venezuela

R2P Monitor, Issue 47, 15 September 2019

Atrocity Alert: Syria, Yemen and Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2019

GCR2P – Name the Crime, Hold the Perpetrators Accountable: Statement on the Second Anniversary of the Rohingya Genocide 22 August 2019

Atrocity Alert No.168, 21 August 2019

Ambassador Pou Sothirak’s Reflections – Peace, Harmony and Development for Peaceful Coexistence in Myanmar, NTS Newsletter, August 2019

Atrocity Alert, No. 167, 14 August 2019

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect – Statement on the Fifth Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Yazidi 2 August 2019

Summary of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Global Network of R2P Focal Points 26 July 2019

Atrocity Alert: Myanmar (Burma), Afghanistan and Syria 24 July 2019

Statement on the World Day of International Justice 17 July 2019

Atrocity Alert: Mass Atrocities and the 41st Session of the Human Rights Council 17 July 2019

Q&A: The International Court of Justice & the Genocide of the Rohingya 17 July 2019

R2P Monitor, Issue 46, 15 July 2019

APR2P Statement on the recent violence in Papua New Guinea 12 July 2019

Atrocity Alert: Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria and Venezuela 10 July 2019

Atrocity Alert: Sudan, Cameroon and Iraq 3 July 2019

2019 UN General Assembly Debate on the Responsibility to Protect and the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity, 27 June 2019

Atrocity Alert: Mali, Yemen, World Refugee Day and the UN Formal Debate on R2P 26 June 2019

R2P in Focus: 9th Annual Meeting of the Global Network of R2P Focal Point, 21 June 2019

APPAP Myanmar Statement 20 June 2019

Atrocity Alert: Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar (Burma) and Congo 19 June 2019

Atrocity Alert: Mali, Iraq, Philippines and South Sudan 12 June 2019

Cambodia Country Risk Assessment 

Foreign Minister of Indonesia – Improve civilian protection in conflicts

Atrocity Alert: Cameroon, Myanmar (Burma) and Central African Republic 29 May 2019

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect – Statement on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers 29 May 2019

Atrocity Alert: Venezula, Syria and China 1 May 2019

Atrocity Alert: Sri Lanka, Yemen and Libya 24 April 2019

Atrocity Alert: Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, Berkina Faso and Rwanda 10 April 2019

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect –  Statement on the 25th Anniversary of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Asia Pacific Regional Outlook, Issue 11, April 2019

Atrocity Alert: Iraq, Democratic Republic of the Congo and International Justice

R2P Monitor, Issue 44 – 15 March 2019

After 8 Years and 500,000 Dead, No ‘Normalization’ in Syria without Justice

London School of Economics – We need to understand the Responsibility to Protect before we (mis)apply it in Venezuela

Atrocity Alert: Afghanistan, Sudan, and Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Atrocity Alert: Nigeria, South Sudan and Syria 20th February 2019 

R2P in Focus: The 2019 Evans-Sahnoun Lecture for R2P

Atrocity Alert: Cameroon, Sudan and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence 13th February 2019

The Irrawady-The Fortunate Failure of ‘Voluntary Repatriation’ For Rohingya Refugees’

Southeast Asia Globe-New app brings students face-to-face with Khmer Rouge tragedy

Atrocity Alert: Nigeria, Central African Republic and Syria 6th February 2019

R2P Monitor, Issue 43, 15th January 2019

Atrocity Alert: DRC, Yemen and Nigeria 19th December 2018

Beyond Killing: The Critical Role of Gender in the Recognition, Prevention and Punishment of Genocide

The Irrawady: US Labels Crimes Commited Against Rohingya ‘Genocide’ 

Atrocity Alert: Burundi, Iraq and North Korea 12th December 2018

Khmer Rouge Tribunal Legacy – Responding to the Cambodian Genocide in the Global Context: DCCAM Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Time: Why a Genocide Verdict in Cambodia Could Be the Last of Its Kind

EXIBITION: “WHAT IF NO WAR & GENOCIDE IN CAMBODIA” BY CAMBODIAN ART STUDENTS

CBS News-Last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime get life sentences

The Japan Times-‘Sense of closure’: Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict for first time as troubled tribunal wraps up 

DW-Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia: Did justice take too long?

UN genocide adviser welcomes historic conviction of former Khmer Rouge leaders

The Phnom Penh Post-‘Historic’ Khmer Rouge tribunal Case 002/2 verdict to be delivered 

Khmer Rouge genocide verdict hailed as justice for survivors and Cambodia’s youth

CNN-Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling

South China Morning Post-Khmer Rouge leaders convicted of genocide in landmark court ruling 

CityNews-Vancouver lawyer who persecuted Khmer Rouge leaders welcomes genocide verdicts 

RFA-UN War Tribunal Jails Cambodia Khmer Rouge Leaders For Life on Genocide Charges

News4Europe-Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in historic verdict in Cambodia

The Diplomat-Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Era in the Spotlight with Guilty Verdicts

Nikkei Asian Review-After 40 years, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict

BBC-Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of Cambodia genocide

Herald-Whig-Cambodia says Khmer Rouge tribunal that convicted 3 is done 

Aljazeera-40 years on, Khmer Rouge leaders face genocide verdict

Time-Cambodian Court Convicts Former Khmer Rouge Leaders of Genocide in Historic Ruling 

Fidh-Cambodia: In landmark verdict, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal recognizes forced marriage as a crime against humanity and convicts former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide

Amnesty International-Cambodia: Genocide verdict is bitter, belated justice

HRW-Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Convictions ‘Too Little, Too Late’

 Lowy Institute-Cambodia’s genocide verdict: better late than never 

The Telegraph- Forty years on, Khmer Rouge verdict is first ruling that Cambodian regime committed genocide

The Guardian-Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in Cambodia’s ‘Nuremberg’ moment

VOA-Guilty Verdicts Mark the Start of the End for Cambodia’s Genocide Trial

Washington Post-Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms

ECCC-Summary of judgement in Case 002/02 against NUON Chea and KHIEU Samphan 

Cambodia genocide verdict a signal to other perpetrators: US

Mixed Views on Khmer Rouge Tribunal Impact, Legacy Ahead of Genocide Verdict

Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia Is Ruled a Genocide

Conclusion of Cambodia genocide trial to be ‘affirmation of justice’

Indonesia Urges Asean to Support Conflict Resolution in Myanmar

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day (25 August)

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE 2018 YOUTH SUMMIT ON THE PREVENTION OF ATROCITY CRIMES IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

R2P Monitor, Issue 40, 15th July 2018

Atrocity Alert: South Sudan and Children and Armed Conflict, 4th July 2018

Preliminary Analysis of the 2018 United Nations General Assembly Plenary Meeting on Responsiblity to Protect (R2P) and the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes against Humanity, which concluded on 2nd July 2018 

Atrocity Alert: Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria and Syria, 27th June 2018

The 2018 UN Debate on the Responsibility to Protect and the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity, 25th June 2018

2019-2020 UN Security Council Elections and the Responsibility to Protect, 8th June 2018

Atrocity Alert: South Sudan, Israel, and the Occupied Palestine Territory and Venezuela, 6th June 2018

R2P in Focus: R2P and UN Peacekeeping, No. 17, May 2018 

Atrocity Alert: Yeman, Nigeria and Syria, 30th May 2018

Global Centre for the Reponsibility to Protect – Statement on International Day of UN Peacekeepers, 29th May 2018  

Atrocity Alert: Burundi, Central African Republic and Sudan, 23rd May 2018

Atrocity Alert: Israel and the Occupied Palestine Territories, South Sudan and Burundi, 16th May 2018

R2P Monitor, Issue 39, 15th May 2018