Perilous Interventions and the Indian Debate on r2p: A Case of Limited Engagement and Missed Opportunity

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Kudrat Virk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Missed Opportunity

This article reflects on Hardeep Singh Puri’s approach towards the responsibility to protect (r2p) in Perilous Interventions, and, in so doing, also on the approaches generally taken in the Indian debate on the subject. It looks, in particular, at issues that both tend not to consider, limiting their contribution to the discourse on r2p. In this regard, the book is characteristic of critical Indian assessments of r2p, which have a narrow focus on the norm’s interventionist pillar and a further tendency to view it through a West/non-West, interest-based lens. This, in turn, contributes to an internal discourse that pivots on selected, individual cases of intervention – as does the book – while precluding a richer and conceptual engagement with the norm. The book is also preoccupied with the negative consequences of military intervention and the lessons of failure, so much so that it misses an opportunity to consider more fully how the use of force for human-rights protection might be made less perilous or less necessary.

scholarly journals The UN Secretary-General on the global digitalization and international cooperation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
A. Guterres
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Honorary Doctor ◽  
The Subject

Nowadays, the establishment of peaceful cooperation between nations depends on the development of digital economy and its regulation. To a certain extent, this new reality challenges the basic principles of the old world and defines some new rules to which humankind is supposed to adapt. On May 13 during his visit to Moscow, Russia, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was welcomed at MGIMO-University and conferred an Honorary Doctor degree. Following the ceremony, as is tradition, the Secretary-General delivered a doctoral lecture to students and faculty. TheSecretary-General touched on the subject of the consequences of digitalization, its impact on human rights protection and the role of the international community in the era of digital revolution.

scholarly journals A Legal Vacuum in The Principles of International Human Rights Protection

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Subject ◽  
International Conventions

The subject of our research will be international protection as it is a theoretical concept, far from the practical meaning that relates to the international conventions and declarations on the protection of human rights and the mechanisms associated with them. It must now evolve only after long periods of time, and with timid beginnings, in this study we must address the stages in the development of international protection. Since international protection-in the sense that this research deals with - concerns international affairs, it has been affected by the development of international relations and similar problems, so this study will also address those problems, which have hindered the development of international protection within the methodology of comparative analysis.

A Model Humanitarian Intervention? Reassessing NATO's Libya Campaign

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Kuperman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Weapons Proliferation ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Nato Intervention

NATO's 2011 humanitarian military intervention in Libya has been hailed as a model for implementing the emerging norm of the responsibility to protect (R2P), on grounds that it prevented an impending bloodbath in Benghazi and facilitated the ouster of Libya's oppressive ruler, Muammar al-Qaddafi, who had targeted peaceful civilian protesters. Before the international community embraces such conclusions, however, a more rigorous assessment of the net humanitarian impact of NATO intervention in Libya is warranted. The conventional narrative is flawed in its portrayal of both the nature of the violence in Libya prior to the intervention and NATO's eventual objective of regime change. An examination of the course of violence in Libya before and after NATO's action shows that the intervention backfired. The intervention extended the war's duration about sixfold; increased its death toll approximately seven to ten times; and exacerbated human rights abuses, humanitarian suffering, Islamic radicalism, and weapons proliferation in Libya and its neighbors. If it is a “model intervention,” as senior NATO officials claim, it is a model of failure. Implementation of R2P must be reformed to address these unintended negative consequences and the dynamics underlying them. Only then will R2P be able to achieve its noble objectives.

scholarly journals Prawa człowieka. Ukraina

1970 ◽  
Vol 20 (274) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
Olga Velichko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Level

The subject of the article are international guarantees of human rights and cases of violation of these rights in Ukraine. The text of the Constitution of Ukraine, adopted in 1996, takes into account the norms of international law in the field of human rights protection. It is a developing country, so there are still many problems related to the protection of human rights. The basic problem is the lack of fair courts, one of the reasons being the high level of corruption. But the most difficult situation from the point of view of human rights protection is the war in the east of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. In the Crimea occupied by Russia, violent disappearances of people are repeated; Russian authorities persecute pro-Ukrainian activists and Crimean Tatars for peaceful resistance to the occupation of the peninsula. Diplomatic procedures are ineffective, and several dozen people are still in custody. Support is provided by organizations such as Amnesty International and cases of violations of human rights are publicized in order to arouse the reaction of international public opinion.

Institutions with responsibility for human rights protection under the African Union

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Lloyd ◽  
Rachel Murray
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Subject

The transformation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) into the African Union (AU) has been the subject of some, albeit limited, debate. The role that the promotion and protection of human rights will play in the AU appears, on the face of the various documents, to be an important consideration, yet which organs will have responsibility in ensuring their implementation is still not clear. This article aims to discuss the framework of and relationship between the institutions established under the auspices of the OAU and how these have changed since the transformation to the AU. It argues that insufficient attention has been paid to ensuring a coherent and integrated approach to human rights across the Union. Organs such as the African Commission and the new African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, however, have huge potential to influence the way forward.

The ASEAN Charter and the Promotion of R2P in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Constraints

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Morada
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The State ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Regional Organization ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Security Concerns

AbstractThis article examines the ASEAN Charter's provisions that relate to the promotion of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principles in Southeast Asia. It argues that the Charter essentially upholds the state-centered norms and traditions of ASEAN more than it provides for the transformation of the Association into a more people-centered regional organization. It also looks into the specific challenges and constraints faced by advocates of promoting human rights protection and R2P principles in the region, notwithstanding the limitations of the ASEAN Charter. Specifically, the article points to the importance of constituency-building at the national and regional levels, even as it also underscores the need to continue engaging in meaningful dialogue ASEAN bureaucrats on a range of people-centered security concerns.

scholarly journals The Constitutional Will In Human Rights Protection For Refugees

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Oly Viana Agustine
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Human rights protection granted to refugees in Indonesia has not received serious attention, in particular for those who are included in the cross-border refugees. This issue is a question of how the Constitution mandates a protection to them, whether it is an obligation of the government of Indonesia or it is volunteerism alone. The provisians are addressed in Article 28A, Article 28B paragraph (2), Article 28D paragraph (4), Article 28E paragraph (1), Article 28G paragraph (2), and Article 28H paragraph (1), and Article 28J paragraph (1), Broadly speaking, the Indonesian constitution calls for better protection of refugees to internally displaced persons and refugees across borders. This is reflected in several articles in the 1945 Constitution that mention the word “everyone” in the subject which meant regardless of citizenship status or population. This is certainly in line with the values of human rights that have been recognized along with the universality of human rights that are applicable. Therefors the will of the constitution on refugees needs to be implemented in legislation in Indonesia, which describes in details the human rights protection to internally displaced persons and refugees state that the will of the constitution in the protection of human rights to refugees be implemented correctly.

Universal declaration of human rights as a source of universal international legal standards of human rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Uliana Kuzenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
International Human

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an international legal instrument, which for the first time formulated the foundations of modern democratic status of a human being and its fundamental rights and freedoms. Methodology. The methodology involves a comprehensive study of theoretical and practical material on the subject, as well as a formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. During the research, the following methods of scientific cognition were used: dialectical, terminological, formal and logical, systemic and functional. Results. The study found that the main features of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a source of international legal mechanism for the protection of human rights are: 1) it is a fundamental, foundational and universal international human rights act of the United Nations; 2) it establishes a system of fundamental human rights; 3) it defines a common system of fundamental international human rights standards; 4) it determines the principles of legal identity of a human being; 5) it determines the fundamental basis and principles of international legal regulation in the field of human rights protection; 6) it acts as an international legal basis for the adoption of the latest legislation on human rights protection; 7) it acts as an international legal basis for the codification of human rights legislation. Scientific novelty. The study found that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights points to the natural origin of human rights, which must be binding on all States and for the whole population, regardless of citizenship, in order to ensure the human rights protection in a democratic and rule-of-law State. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used to improve Ukrainian legislation on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

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