Apr 16, 2014 · The Security Council today marked the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide by calling on all countries to recommit to prevent and fight such serious crimes, as a senior United Nations...

United Nations Security Council resolution 955, adopted on 8 November 1994, after recalling all resolutions on Rwanda, the Council noted that serious violations of international humanitarian law had taken place in the country and, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ...

The United States and other permanent members of the Security Council were scarred by the murders of UN peacekeepers in both Rwanda and Somalia, and unwilling to take any action that might prove unpopular domestically.

Most of the controversy regarding the UN Security Council’s failure in Rwanda point to its shocking indifference, its sins of omission, and its failure to try and stop the killing despite the fact that it had a peacekeeping operation on the ground.

Nov 8, 1994 · Concerns establishment of an International Tribunal for Rwanda and adoption of the Statute of the Tribunal. Collections Resource Type > Documents and Publications > Resolutions and Decisions UN...

Dec 27, 1994 · Functions and Powers of the Security Council (Chapter V of UN Charter) Pacific Settlement of Disputes (Chapter VI of UN Charter) Actions with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the...

“The primary responsibility of the Security Council is to ensure the maintenance of international peace and security. The work of the Security Council is closely aligned with Rwanda’s involvement in issues of peacekeeping operations, peacebuilding and …

About the Council. Functions and Powers; Practices, Procedures and Working Methods. Repertoire of Security Council Practice; Provisional Rules of Procedure (S/96/Rev.7)

We will summarize the scholarly consensus on the events that linked the Security Council to the Rwanda genocide in 1994, adding an original dimension by analyzing in detail the early role of the Security Council that has been sketchily covered by others.

Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, the Security Council condemned without reservation any denial of the genocide and urged member States to develop educational programmes to help prevent...