iR2P

the individual Responsibility to Protect

Archive for October, 2009

In praise of indignant witnesses

By Fred • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: Articles

“I have both the right and the duty to write to you, for my heart is seething with indignation, and I was not endowed with the gift of speech merely to make myself an accomplice by remaining silent.”
So wrote Armin T. Wegner in 1933, in an open letter to Adolf Hitler to express his deep [...]



Two clicks for genocide prevention

By Fred • Oct 6th, 2009 • Category: Action

Building a genocide monitoring and alert system is one of 16 top ideas shortlisted by Google’s ‘10 to the 100‘ initiative, after reviewing more than 150,000 ideas submitted by people in 172 countries. Google will give $10 million to organisations in the best position to help implement the five ideas that receive the most votes by Thursday [...]