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Debating the Responsibility to Protect

By | Aug 11, 2009

This video is a small sampling of comments from the 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th and 101st plenary meetings of the 63rd General Assembly. Up to 94 delegations spoke during the August 2009 debate, expressing a range of reactions to the multifaceted political philosophy described in the secretary-general's report on the responsibility to protect, known as R2P. Read more about the report at http://tinyurl.com/sgonr2p

The International Center for the Responsibility to Protect has collected full transcripts of most of the statements and made them available online via: http://tinyurl.com/r2ptranscripts

General Assembly, R2P, responsibility to protect

Sarah Trefethen was the first online editor of The InterDependent. She is now a reporter in Keene, N.H., and holds a master's degree in international reporting from the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.

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