The responsability to protect and peacekeeping missions: a view from human rights perspective
International Journal of Development Research
The responsability to protect and peacekeeping missions: a view from human rights perspective
Received 07th May 2020; Received in revised form 28th June 2020; Accepted 06th July 2020; Published online 26th August 2020
Copyright © 2020, Paula Monteiro Danese. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The paper presented aims to show the effectiveness and necessity to have the responsibility to protect as a tool when facing armed conflicts and its role to protect Human Rights. Firstly, the link concerning human rights and armed conflict, and for that purpose, it shows the interrelation between humanitarian law and human rights law. After, it follows to responsibility to protect as aninstrument for humanitarian intervention in order to proceed for a peace and security environment. Finally, the Democratic Republic of Cong is a study case regarding the responsibility to protect and an important asset to analyze the motives that leads to U.N Security Council Resolution for humanitarian intervention, as decision making can be challenging and many times made by political purposes.
