by Camila Ponte | 14 July 2023 | News
Uganda is currently one of Africa’s leading hosts of refugees. The country receives refugees at an unprecedented scale, keeping its borders open to over 1.4 million people, including more than 860,000 children. Refugees become a highly vulnerable group to exclusion...
by Camila Ponte | 11 July 2023 | News
On 29 June 2023, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution (A/77/L.79) to establish a new international institution to clarify the fate and whereabouts of the missing in Syria. Both the UNSG report and related UNGA resolutions (1, 2) emphasise the need for...
by Camila Ponte | 28 June 2023 | News
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser, Mr. George Okoth-Obbo, introduced this week the Secretary-General’s 2023 Report on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) entitled Development and the responsibility to protect: recognizing and addressing embedded risks and...
by Camila Ponte | 26 May 2023 | News
The workshop was hosted by a GAAMAC Steering Group member, the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka. Introducing the event, the Museum’s Trustee Mofidul Hoque recalled the history of atrocity crimes in Bangladesh, in particular the 1971 genocide. Acknowledging that hate...
by Camila Ponte | 9 May 2023 | News
The objective of the conference series – which started in 2013 – is to create an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to engage in an interdisciplinary academic debate on the theoretical and practical implications of the R2P principle. Find out more about...
by Camila Ponte | 2 May 2023 | News
At the end of April, the Executive Directors of the GCR2P, MIGS and the Sentinel Project travelled to Ottawa to meet with Members of Parliament, Senators and Canadian Government officials with the aim of identifying new strategic approaches and initiatives to prevent...
