The responsibility to protect after Libya and Syria (presented by The Hon Gareth Evans AC QC)

Speech by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, Chancellor of The Australian National University, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group and former Australian Foreign Minister, to the Castan Centre Human Rights Conference, 20 July 2012, Melbourne, Australia. ''The responsibility to protect' after Libya and Syria' 'The responsibility to protect' doctrine unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2005 has been hailed by historian Martin Gilbert as the most significant adjustment to sovereignty in 360 years. But is the international community's willingness to cooperate in ending mass atrocity crimes more rhetorical than real? Was the intervention in Libya a new benchmark for effective action - or, given subsequent paralysis over Syria, the high water mark from which the tide will now recede? Gareth Evans also filmed a shortinterview on this topic. If you’re strapped for time, you can watch it here:    • The responsibility to protect after Libya ...   For more information about the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, go to our website: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castance...