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The Responsibility to Protect and the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity

A/RES/75/277View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 135The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, published in 2020.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

A dot marks an entity citing this document in its “Mandates and background” narrative rather than only its Legislative mandates list. Many do both.

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
Crimes Against HumanityEthnic CleansingGenocide PreventionResponsibility to ProtectWar Crimes

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2024–2026.

  • 2026A/80/716Sustained implementation of the responsibility to protect at the national, regional and multilateral levels report of the Secretary-General
  • 2025A/79/875Responsibility to protect : 20 years of commitment to principled and collective action report of the Secretary-General
  • 2024A/78/901Responsibility to protect : the commitment to prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

2 operative paragraphs
1
Decides to include in its annual agenda the item entitled “The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity”;
2
Requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

iParagraph content is machine-extracted from UN documents. For authoritative content, please refer to the official UN document.

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