Responsibility to Protect

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• The Los Angeles Times

  Russia and the 'responsibility to protect'

  The principle was intended to prevent another Cambodia or Rwanda; it cannot be used to justify Moscow's invasion of Georgia. The Russian government has argued that its recent military operations in Georgia were justified by the principle of "responsi

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• The New York Times

  Memo From the United Nations: When to Step In to Stop War Crimes Causes Fissures

  The United Nations has already endorsed a “responsibility to protect” people from atrocities, but the validity of the policy may face another debate.

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• Nora Boustany: Diplomatic Dispatches (Wash. Post)

  Jim Hoagland -- A Congolese Challenge for Obama

  While world leaders gathered here to unleash soothing words on the financial tsunami swamping their economies, the daring "responsibility to protect" doctrine adopted by U.N. members three years ago was being buried in the killing fields of eastern C

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• The New York Times

  French Official Urges U.N. to Force Aid on Myanmar

  The French foreign minister said that the U.N. should invoke its “responsibility to protect” civilians as the basis for a resolution to force delivery of aid on the military government.

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• The Los Angeles Times

  U.N. struggles over how to help nations that reject aid

  As Myanmar and China refuse some forms of aid, the international community asks whether its 'responsibility to protect' applies. Myanmar's cyclone and China's earthquake highlight a question that the U.N. often struggles with: what to do when a count

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• The Guardian

  Beyond the voodoo void of finance | William Brittain-Catlin

  The moral gulf between citizens and banks must be replaced with an ethic of responsibility

  If the second worst financial crisis in history signalled the implosion of offshore capitalism – that remote, distant and out-of-

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• The Guardian

  Failures that led to mother starving Khyra Ishaq to death 'beyond belief'

  • Warnings from schools not taken seriously – judge • Seven-year-old resembled camp victim when found • Mother and stepfather admit manslaughter

  A social services department is facing mounting criticism tonight for

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• The Daily Mail

  Jeremy Kyle Show branded 'modern-day freak show' by MP for revealing paternity tests

  Kerry McCarthy has launched a campaign against 'declining' TV standards and called on broadcasters to show more responsibility to protect children's privacy.

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