Abstract
This chapter outlines preventive diplomacy efforts that seeking to head off, mitigate, or contain the spread of gross violations of human rights. However, such efforts are piece-meal. Attempts to make preventive diplomacy in the area of preventive diplomacy more systematic face political objections by Governments. One such initiative was the Human Rights Up Front Initiative of Secretary-General Ban ki Moon. Efforts are underway to promote a preventive role of the Human Rights Council. Another underway is to develop the preventive role of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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International Court of Justice (1949).
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See on this, International Institute of Humanitarian Law (2019).
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See on this United Nations (1995) report by Special Rapporteur Bacre Waly N’diaye.
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See on this, Ramcharan (1983).
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United Nations (2018a).
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See Marc Limon (2019).
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International Crisis Group (2019).
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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2019).
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See, United Nations (2014).
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I am grateful to Ms Simona Cruciani of the Office for Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect who provided information that helped me write up this account.
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See, United Nations (2017), p. 1.
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United Nations (2018b).
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Deutsche Welle (2018).
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Ibid.
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Eliasson (2015), p. 9.
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See Irish Mission to the United Nations (2016).
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A preparatory Concept Note for the Glion Conference recalled paragraph 5f of General Assembly resolution 60/251, which stated that the Council shall ‘contribute, through dialogue and cooperation, towards the prevention of human rights violations and respond promptly to human rights emergencies.’ Preventive action, it noted, entailed early warning, early consideration, early action, tailored action, and coordination with the wider UN. Universal Rights Group (2017) (p. 1).
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See Universal Rights Group, “How to Operationalise the Council’s prevention mandate and where does it fit within the Secretary-General ’s ‘prevention agenda’,” April 10, 2019.
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Ramcharan, B., Ramcharan, R. (2020). Human Rights. In: Conflict Prevention in the UN´s Agenda 2030. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36510-3_6
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