Key Documents
General Assembly Resolution
UN System:
General Assembly
- World Summit Outcome Document
- Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly:
- Report of the Secretary-General on Implementing the Responsibility to Protect (January 2009)
- Report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the activities of the Fund to eliminate violence against women (December 2008)
- Statement made on behalf of the Security Council at the 6053rd meeting concerning the ICTR and the ICTY (December 2008)
- “We the Peoples” – The Role of the United Nations (April 2000)
- “A More Secure World” by the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges
and Change (December 2004)
Security Council
Resolutions and Presidential Statements on the protection of civilians in conflict::
- S/PRST/2009/1 – 14 January 2009
- S/PRST/2004/46 - 21 June 2005
- S/PRST/2003/27 - 14 December 2004
- S/PRST/2002/41 - 15 December 2003
- S/PRST/2002/6 - 15 March 2002
The following videos are on the Security Council Open Debates: Protection of Civilians
in Armed Conflict, arranged by date:
- 28 June 2006
- 9 December 2005
- 21 June 2005
- 14 December 2004
- 14 June 2004 (morning) (afternoon session)
- 9 December 2003 (morning) (afternoon session)
- 20 June 2003
Reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians
during Armed Conflict:
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S/2007/676 - Report on the completion strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 20 November 2007
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S/2007/643 - Report of the Secretary-General on the protection
of civilians in armed conflict, 28 October 2007
- S/2005/728 - Fifth report of the Secretary-General on the
United Nations
Operation in Burundi, 21 November 2005
- S/2004/431 - Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council, 28 May 2004
- S/2002/1300 - Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council
on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, 26 November 2002
- S/2001/574 - Prevention of armed conflict |
Report of the Secretary-General,
7 June 2001
Secretary-General
Statements/speeches on the protection of civilians in conflict and the responsibility to protect:
- Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 18.12.2008
- Statement by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 14th anniversary
of the Rwandan Genocide, 4 April 2008
- Responsibility to Protect - 'Profound Moral Imperative in Today's World', says Secretary-General in Message to Global Centre Opening, 14 February 2008
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the press at the Rwanda Genocide Memorial in Kigali , 29 January 2008
- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s address to the Parliament of Rwanda in Kigali, 29 January 2008
- Statement by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the 13th anniversary
of the Rwandan Genocide, 5 April 2007
- Statement by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the “Lessons from Rwanda” exhibit at UN Headquarters, 30 April 2007
- Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the World Summit,
14 September 2005 - Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the General Assembly
on his report “In Larger Freedom”, 21 March 2005 - Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan’sstatement on the occasion
of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide
- Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement
to the Memorial Conference on the Rwanda Genocide