September 16, 2022
The Organization of American States (OAS) Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Jared Genser today released a report that provides recommendations to the General Secretariat and the OAS as a whole on how to further work in the field of atrocity prevention and response. The report is guided by the feedback the Special Adviser received from consultations with 45 officials from 30 OAS Member States; 40 officials from different OAS organs, agencies, and entities; and 20 civil society and international organizations.
The 75-page report entitled “The Responsibility to Protect and the Organization of American States: A Path Forward for Atrocity Prevention and Response in the Americas” is issued under the mandate of the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, whose main objective is to design a framework that will empower the Organization to better act to prevent and respond to mass atrocities in the region. As the first regional organization in the world to establish such a position, it has the unique opportunity to set a global standard for regional engagement with R2P – the report intends to be a landmark step in that direction.