The Need to Reform Humanitarian Interventions Authorized by Security Council Resolutions and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine
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THE NEED TO REFORM HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS
AUTHORIZED BY SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AND
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT DOCTRINE
Quiwana N. Chaney*
I. INTRODUCTION
Since its creation in 1945, the United Nations (U.N.) has established laws
prohibiting genocide' and torture,2 forbidding the mistreatment of civilians,' and
recognizing basic human rights' in efforts to end war and promote peace, justice,
and better living for all mankind.5 While these agreements are nearly universally
accepted,' and have done much to, for the first time in human history, provide
international legal protections for people,7 their existence has done little to deter
atrocities during the past half-century.t The international community adopted the
* Quiwana Chaney is a graduate of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and of the
University of Alabama. She served as Editor in Chief of Denver Journal of International Law and
Policy and Online Editor of Denver Law Review. She would like to thank Professor Nanda for his
support in writing this Comment. She would also like to thank Jeremy Goldstein and the editors and
staff of Denver Journal of International Law and Policy.
1. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Dec. 9, 1948, 78
U.N.T.S. 277.
2. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, Dec. 10, 1984, 1465 U.N.T.S. 85 [hereinafter CAT).
3. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Dec. 21,
1965, 660 U.N.T.S. 195 [hereinafter CERD]; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Dec.
16, 1966, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 [hereinafter ICCPR]; International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, Dec. 16, 1966, 993 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter CESCR]; Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Dec. 18, 1979, 1249 U.N.T.S. 13 [hereinafter CEDAW];
Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, Nov. 20, 1989, 1577 U.N.T.S. 3 [hereinafter CRC].
4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dec. 10, 1948, GA Res. 217A (III), UN Doc A/810
at 71; Alex J. Bellamy & Nicholas J. Wheeler, Humanitarian Intervention in World Politics (2008),
http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/1925/
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5. 1945: The San Francisco Conference, UNITED NATIONS,
http://www.un.org/en/sections/history-united-nations-charter/1945-san-francisco-
conference/index.html.
6. International Human Rights Law, UNITED NATIONS HUM. RTS. OFF. OF THE HIGH
COMMISSIONER, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Professionallnterest/Pages/InternationalLaw.aspx (last
visited Nov. 30, 2016).
7. Id.
8. Hannah Moscrop, Enforcing International Human Rights Law: Problems and Prospects, E-
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENTS (Apr. 29, 2014), http://www.e-ir.info/2014/04/29/enforcing-
international-human-rights-law-problems-and-prospects/ (last visited Nov. 30, 2016) (stating Whilst
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