Draft Resolution Committee: HRC Topic: Responsibility to Protect—humanitarian intervention Sponsors: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Zambia Co-sponsors: The Human Rights Committee, Recalling its previous successful actions, including its UNOSOM I mission in Somali in April 1992 and humanitarian intervention in Timor-Leste in September 1999, Deploring its inaction to Rwanda Genocide that killed around 1,000,000 people, Alarmed by Myanmar government’s blocking large-scale international aid to cyclone victims that later developed a humanitarian crisis, Emphasizing the importance of Responsibility to Protect published in December 2001, under the chairmanship of Gareth Evansthat that where a population is suffering serious harm, as a result of internal war, insurgency, repression or state failure, and the state in question is unwilling or unable to halt or avert it, the principle of non-intervention yields to the international responsibility to protect, Reaffirming the provisions of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, Reaffirming the UN Chapter VII that entitles the Security Council to take action in cases of a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action and recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other human rights instruments, Reaffirming the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection ...
