Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
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A rule sold as protection for people under attack is being stretched to cover health crises, even though no formal change was ever made.
Who they are
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P), adopted at the World Summit in 2005[1].
What they do
The record calls it a concept for governing humanitarian intervention.
How it works
R2P is presented as a way to protect people from mass violence. But the record shows it being invoked as the legal basis for a Security Council-authorised intervention in a health emergency. The record itself notes this does not establish that R2P has been formally extended to health emergencies. So the rule is used in a new way while its official scope stays the same.
Why it matters
It shows how a rule can be stretched past what was agreed, without anyone formally changing it.
The engine's record — word for word
It is presented publicly as: "‘ The Commission supports the concept of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) governing the process of humanitarian intervention ‘" Documents named in the corpus: Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Cross-sourced to cambridge.org — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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