Responsibility to Protect: Implementing a Global Norm towards Peace and Security - An Interview with Dr Simon Adams; Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

The responsibility of healthcare institutions to protect global health security.

New public threats that can rapidly cross borders are continuing to challenge global health securityand will require unprecedented levels of co-operation. At the international level, the response to this challenge led to the approval of revised International Health Regulations (IHR). This unanimously approved document outlines how countries are to prepare for and respond to public health emerge...

Towards a New Global Responsibility

In order to contain the climate change’s impacts within sustainability levels the document restates the principle of common, but differentiated responsibilities among International parties and, in order to identify future shares for GHG emissions and considering single capabilities and everybody’s right to a satisfying quality of life and to development, it asserts the necessity for an approach...

Global Poverty and Moral Responsibility

Global poverty is one of the most important challenges encountering human beings. Thousands of people die every day and 18 million people die every year as a result of poverty and its problems. The main question in this regard is whether the rich have a moral responsibility for poverty or not. Taking advantage of descriptive-analytical methods, this article examines the views of Peter Singer, J...

The Responsibility to Protect: Intervention Is Not Enough

THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: INTERVENTION IS NOT ENOUGH, by Major Joshua James Major, 83 pages. Officially adopted by the UN in 2005, the responsibility to protect did not make many international headlines until NATO's intervention in Libya in 2011. This monograph highlights the issues associated with precluding recurring violence after an R2P intervention when the international community doe...

Global Justice: From Responsibility to Rights