The Council of the UN Human Rights discussed measures to prevent genocide.
In a number of regions of the modern world, terrifying evidence of the commission of brutal crimes bordering the genocide again, at a meeting of the 58th session of the UN Council for Human Rights, the Deputy Supreme Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights Nada Anga Nashif.
“We live in dangerous times, when deep disagreements and extremist views feed conflicts and violence, she said.
According to An-Nashif, the global principles that protect everyone from the UN Charter and the General Declaration of Human Rights are under unprecedented pressure.
When states undermine, denigrate or ignore international laws and institutions that support them, they increase the risk of repetition of crimes of such a scale as genocide, Nada emphasized An-Nashif.
Genocide occurs when the moral compass of mankind gives a failure
“Genocide occurs when the moral compass of mankind fails, – she said, when the ideologies of hatred are spread and when the dehumanization of individual groups of people is allowed to root and spread.”
The Deputy Supreme Commissar of the UN recalled that the UN was created after the Holocaust to a large extent in order to prevent the repetition of the genocide.
Humanity is obliged to remember the solemn promise that it gave after the end of the Second World War – to prevent the repetition of the genocide, said the special adviser to the UN Secretary General to prevent the genocide of Virginia Gamba.
“Despite our collective efforts, the danger of genocide is present in the modern world and serious accusations of committing this crime are still sounding,” she said.
Gamba reminded that the destructive consequences of the inaction of the international community were captured in the memory of Rwanda, Srebrenitsa and Cambodia. “
She called on UN member states to strengthen early warning systems, expand international cooperation in order to prevent genocide, as well as “hard to work on the prosecution of guilty in genocide and related brutal crimes.”
“impunity gives rise to new cycles of violence. Serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, if they are not stopped, can lead to the commission of genocide and other cruel crimes,” she stressed.