NEW UN ‘RIGHTS UP FRONT’ STRATEGY SEEKS TO PREVENT GENOCIDE, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

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Date: 18 Dec 2013 19:00:01 -0500
Subject: NEW UN 'RIGHTS UP FRONT' STRATEGY SEEKS TO PREVENT GENOCIDE,
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
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NEW UN 'RIGHTS UP FRONT' STRATEGY SEEKS TO PREVENT GENOCIDE, HUMAN
RIGHTS ABUSESNew York, Dec 18 2013 7:00PMStill haunted by its failure
to forestall genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica nearly 20 years ago and
confronted by ongoing bloodshed in Syria and the Central African
Republic (CAR), the United Nations is revamping its preventive
strategies under a new initiative called 'Rights up Front.'

"The need for early action, and the crucial role of responding early
to human rights violations, is at the heart of the 'Rights up Front'
initiative," Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson
<"http://www.un.org/sg/dsg/statements/index.asp?nid=480">told an
informal session of the General Assembly yesterday as he presented a
six-point action plan.

It includes training UN staff on the world body's core purpose of
promoting respect for human rights; providing Member States with the
information needed to respond to human rights violations; and ensuring
that UN personnel around the world are more attuned to situations
where there is a risk of serious human rights abuses and are equipped
for the responsibilities that such potential crises entail.

The strategy, initiated by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, also
includes achieving a more coherence by strengthening engagement with
the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Geneva-based UN
Human Rights Council and providing earlier and more coherent support
to teams on the ground before a crisis emerges; and better
organization of human rights staff so that they can identify risks of
serious violations of human rights that could lead to atrocities.

Finally, underpinning all these activities will be better information
management on threats and risks to populations for planning
operational activities and for sharing with Member States.

"A lack of broad and timely political support has been a key obstacle
to early and effective action to prevent human rights crises," Mr.
Eliasson said. "Together with Member States we will need to explore
ways of strengthening our collective political will to react and act
when crises are unfolding. It is irrefutable, and needs repeating,
that serious human rights violations are the best early warning of
impending atrocities.

"If we fail to act early, the human, political and economic costs can
be devastating as we know far too well. This calls for a more alert,
flexible and coordinated UN System, both on the ground and at
headquarters. This is what the 'Rights up Front' initiative aims to
accomplish."

He stressed how the UN System failed to prevent genocide in Rwanda,
where at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus
were killed during a span of three months in 1994, and in Srebrenica,
where at least 6,000 Moslem men and boys in a UN protection zone were
massacred in 1995 during the wars in former Yugoslavia.

"Those horrendous events led us all to say 'never again'," Mr.
Eliasson said. "We said we would have to do more to prevent serious
violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Despite
much effort, since 1995 hundreds of thousands of people have died as a
result of mass atrocities and tens of millions have been displaced."

But steps forward have been taken. "World leaders endorsed the
'responsibility to protect in 2005. And Member States have over the
years articulated an increasingly detailed agenda for the protection
of civilians," he said.

Yet, the crises in Syria, where over 100,000 people have now been
killed and 8 million driven from their homes in the nearly three-year
civil war, and in CAR, where thousands have been killed and over
600,000 displaced in a conflict increasingly marked by inter-communal
clashes between Christians and Muslims, are reminders that serious
human rights abuses are often the clearest early warning of emerging
conflict, he added.

"When people in today's world are at risk or subject to serious
violations, they expect and request the United Nations to act - and we
do," Mr. Eliasson declared. "However, in practice, our response to
crisis often comes when a situation has deteriorated to the point
where only a substantial political or peacekeeping mission can deal
with the problems."Dec 18 2013 7:00PM
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