Select Committee · Foreign Affairs Committee
Responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention inquiry
Status: Closed
Opened: 17 Apr 2018
Closed: 19 Nov 2018
Inquiry scope
The purpose of this inquiry is to consider the legal basis to intervene militarily in other states for humanitarian purposes, and to review the conditions that apply. The inquiry will also consider whether more could be done using the concepts of the responsibility to protect (R2P) and humanitarian intervention to protect civilian populations, with specific reference to Syria.Oral evidence sessions
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