LONDON (Oct 25): As civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo are battered by air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, what has happened to the world's responsibility to protect populations under threat? The Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Security Council were established after World War Two to maintain peace and protect people in conflict zones. But a 21st-century U.N. doctrine called Responsibility To Protect (R2P), set up by the world body's member states to prevent mass killings, has only had limited success. Ashdown, a former leader of the British opposition Liberal Democrats party, was speaking to the Thomson Reuters Foundation for a short film entitled "Responsibility To Protect? "Syria is a case that's begging for 'responsibility to protect' and no one is showing any responsibility whatever," said Michael Ignatieff, academic and specialist on humanitarian intervention.

Source: The Edge Markets October 24, 2016 23:03 UTC