Office of The Special Adviser on The Prevention of Genocide

Documents, Publications and Statements

Statements

• 2012
  • Statement of the Special Advisers of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
    and on the Responsibility to Protect on the launch of an inter-agency Atrocities Prevention
    Board by the United States, as presented by President Obama on 23 April 2012 (24 April 2012)
  • Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, release statement marking a full year of violent suppression of anti-government protests in Syria (15 March 2012)
  • The UN Secretary-General's Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, urge immediate action to end violence in Syria (10 February 2012)
• 2011
  • Special Advisers of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, on the contemporary relevance of the commitment to prevent genocide and related crimes (9 December 2011)
  • UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and on the Responsibility to Protect on the Situation in South Kordofan State, Sudan (7 September 2011)
  • Statement by Special Advisers of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, on the situation in Syria (21 July 2011)
  • Statement by Special Advisers of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, on the situation in Syria (2 June 2011)
  • Statement by the Secretary-General’s Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect highlighting their concern at the recent deadly violence in Abyei between the Missireya Arabs and the Ngok-Dinka ethnic groups and their respective allies that left more than 100 people dead (16 March 2011)
  • Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Francis Deng, and Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, Edward Luck, on the Situation in Libya (22 February 2011)
  • Second statement by Special Advisers Deng and Luck on the Situation in Cote d’Ivoire, New York (19 January 2011). See Video of Press Conference (19 January 2011)
• 2010
  • Statement by Special Advisers Deng and Luck on the Situation in Cote d’Ivoire, New York (29 December 2010)
  • Statement by Special Advisers Deng and Luck on the contemporary importance of the commitment to prevent genocide and mass atrocities, New York (9 December 2010)
  • Statement by Special Advisers Deng and Luck on the Situation in Kyrgyzstan, New York (15 June 2010)
• 2009
  • Statement by Special Adviser Deng to mark the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, New York (9 December 2009)
  • Statement by Special Adviser Deng on the situation in Sri Lanka, New York (15 May 2009)
    
• 2008
  • Statement by Special Adviser Deng on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, New York (12 December 2008)
  • Statement by the Secretary-General on the 60th Anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, New York (9 December 2008)
  • Statement by Special Adviser Deng on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, New York (9 December 2008)