Lessons from Rwanda: The United Nations and the Prevention of Genocide

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:

• S/2007/676 - Report on the completion strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 20 November 2007
  
  
• 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