Genocide, ethnic cleansing and similar grave violations must be prevented.

And the consequences of the ethnic cleansing have not been remedied to date.

Responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity

Several witnesses used the words ethnic cleansing and rampant expulsions of Palestinians to describe the situation.

Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non lethal, weapons in civil war.

We need consensus on the responsibility to protect people from genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The world has a responsibility to react in order to prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The principle of non intervention cannot be used to shield genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

King Hassan II had then proceeded to carry out ethnic cleansing, invading the Territory and plundering its natural resources.

Terrorism and the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity were also highlighted.

It entails our national and collective responsibility to act in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Many ethnic, religious and cultural conflicts have been aggravated by the social marginalization produced by non viable economies, sometimes reaching levels of violence that lead to genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity.

Notes with deep concern that, in certain circumstances, cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions may result in mass murder, ethnic cleansing or genocide

Notes with deep concern that in certain circumstances, cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions may result in mass murder, ethnic cleansing or genocide

The Azerbaijani leadership, then and now, never expressed remorse over the ethnic cleansing and massacres of the Armenians of Azerbaijan or the Armenians of Karabagh.

Mladić was engaged in ethnic cleansing, which, though reprehensible, is not the same as genocide. Loose definitions will encourage more military interventions, thus more wars.

The Summit had recognized explicitly that every State had the responsibility to protect its populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

It goes without saying that national authorities have the primary responsibility to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

We agree that the protection of populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity lies first and foremost with each individual State.

Stressing that the mass and barbaric demolition of mosques and other Islamic Shrines in Azerbaijan, by Armenia, for ethnic cleansing is a crime of genocide

Agreement among Member States to better address grave situations such as those involving genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity itself constitutes significant progress.

Only recently, our leaders have agreed to devise methods of taking responsibility to protect innocent civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Fighting in Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen has torn apart entire communities. Ethnic cleansing perpetuated by the Islamic State has reversed centuries of religious, ethnic, and cultural intermingling, and pushed close to two million people from their homes.

Numerous historical documents prove that the millions of Azerbaijanis suffering ethnic cleansing and genocide in 1905 1907, 1918 1920, 1948 1953 in their historical ethnic territories were murdered in massive numbers and obliged to flee from their native lands.

Most such transfers, not to be confused with ethnic cleansing , have occurred after conflict e.g. the Treaty of Lausanne and the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations.

New Zealand strongly supports the principles of responsibility to protect , which set out clearly the need for collective action against genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

For the first time, we have recognized our national and collective responsibility to act in cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We invite the permanent members of the Security Council to refrain from using the veto in cases of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The Union therefore welcomes the unprecedented recognition of the international community's responsibility to protect populations from the threat of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity.

Nor does the Middle East have a monopoly on Islamist extremism, ethnic tension, or terrorism. China s restive Muslim Uighurs, the Hindu Muslim conflict in India, the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the secessionist Muslim insurgency in the Philippines, and the ethnic separatist insurgency in southern Thailand all highlight Asia s complex tapestry of unresolved religious and ethnic trouble spots.

With respect to the human rights situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the secessionists who had seized the territories were committing acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Georgians.

The pogroms of Armenians in Sumgait 17 years ago have the dubious honour of being the first time that ethnic cleansing was utilized in what was still a Soviet space.

Where social barriers are sufficiently strong, economic barriers are certain to appear. These can range from protectionist trade policies and increasingly strict immigration controls to religious wars and ethnic cleansing.

Let me also stress the importance of our collective responsibility to deal with terrorism and to protect populations under threat of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

If we follow through on the responsibility to protect, then never again will genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity be allowed to take place under our noses with nothing done.

With the occupation of Shusha, which historically has always been the capital city of the entire Karabakh region, the Armenian nationalists completed the full ethnic cleansing of this region of Azerbaijan.

In fact, the Azeri leadership encouraged the ethnic cleansing and massacres of the Armenians of Azerbaijan, directly and indirectly, through creation of a conducive environment for violence and impunity for such crimes.

We will do so if peaceful means are found to be inadequate and if national authorities manifestly fail to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The notorious occupation by one United Nations Member State of the territory of another Member State, as well as carrying out ethnic cleansing, must be strongly condemned and brought to an end.

Here, it is important to note and to decry the increasing number of violent conflicts, especially in Africa, with their attendant desolation including loss of life, mass displacement, rape and ethnic cleansing.

We endorse the Secretary General's appeal to embrace the principle of the responsibility to protect as a norm for our collective action in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

We note that here is also a growing consensus to accept the justifiability of the use of force to protect civilian populations from crimes against humanity, such as genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Whether it is mutilations in Sierra Leone, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans or disappearances in Latin America, the parties to conflicts have acted with deliberate indifference to those conventions.

It should be confined to cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and the prior authorization of the Security Council should be obtained before there is such intervention to protect citizens.

At the world summit three months ago, our heads of State and Government reached a historic agreement on the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.