iR2P

the individual Responsibility to Protect

Posts Tagged ‘natural disasters’

“The West should get real”

By Fred • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Opinions

Ramesh Thakur - one of the original R2P commissioners, is critical of suggestions to apply R2P to natural disasters.
He admits that the original report identified ‘overwhelming natural or environmental catastrophes, where the state concerned is either unwilling or unable to cope, and significant loss of life is occurring or threatened‘ as among the conscience-shocking situations [...]