Human Rights Interventions: How the UN Can Get Better at Saving Civilian Lives

Foley, Conor

The book provides an up to date and authoritative account of how the UN is re[1]thinking its obligations to protect civilians during conflicts. Based on hundreds of interviews with senior UN officials and humanitarian protection staff in headquarters and in the field and a review of the UN´s ´grey literature´. It also draws on the author´s own experience of working on human rights and protection in some of the world´s most violent conflicts. It is written not about what the UN ought to do – or how it could have behaved differently in an abstract or theoretically ideal world – but what the UN is actually doing to fulfil the fundamental purposes set forth in its Charter. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-03-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031274299

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27427-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 168