UN: Authorize Peacekeeping Mission for Central African Republic
Leading Rights Groups Urge Rapid Action
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should immediately authorize the deployment of a strong UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), nine leading African and international human rights groups said today in a joint letter to the foreign ministers of security council member states. Such a mission, as envisioned in the report UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted to the council on March 3, 2014, is urgently needed to protect civilians in the country.
The groups signing the letter are: Amnesty International, the Central African League for Human Rights (LCDH), the Central African Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), Enough Project, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Human Rights Watch, Humanity United, FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), and Invisible Children.
"With an entire year of bloodshed in CAR, the security council should have authorized a UN peacekeeping mission months ago," said Philippe Bolopion, UN director at Human Rights Watch. "There is a massive humanitarian and human rights crisis in the country, which has not received the response needed to protect thousands of people who have endured killings, rape, pillage, and displacement from their homes."
The groups signing the letter are: Amnesty International, the Central African League for Human Rights (LCDH), the Central African Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), Enough Project, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Human Rights Watch, Humanity United, FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), and Invisible Children.
"With an entire year of bloodshed in CAR, the security council should have authorized a UN peacekeeping mission months ago," said Philippe Bolopion, UN director at Human Rights Watch. "There is a massive humanitarian and human rights crisis in the country, which has not received the response needed to protect thousands of people who have endured killings, rape, pillage, and displacement from their homes."
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