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International Journal of Refugee Law 2009 21(3):519-537; doi:10.1093/ijrl/eep016
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Note from the Editor: Readers of the journal may find the documents listed below of interest. They are available on UNHCR’s Refworld database <http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain>. I am grateful to UNHCR for this information.

Guidance Note on Refugee Claims relating to Female Genital Mutilation, May 2009.

UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea, April 2009.

The 2009 Report of the Secretary-General on the efforts of the United Nations system to prevent genocide and the activities of his Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide is set out below.

Implementing the responsibility to protect—Report of the Secretary-General, A/63/677, January 2009

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

United Nations General Assembly, Human Rights Council, 10th session, Agenda item three.


   Executive summary
 
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/7/25 of 25 March 2008 requesting that I report on ‘the efforts of the United Nations system to prevent genocide and on the activities of the Special Adviser’. It follows an initial 2006 report to the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2006/84) and a 2008 report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/7/37).

Following an introductory section, the report's second section under the heading of ‘Strengthening the United Nations’ prevention of genocide’ describes a series of ongoing efforts by the United Nations. The section describes a new Framework of Analysis designed by the office of my Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Mr Francis M. Deng, to determine whether there may be a risk of genocide in a certain situation. The Framework uses eight questions to prompt information . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   I. Introduction
 

   II. Strengthening the United Nations’ prevention of genocide
 
A. Determining whether there may be a risk of genocide – a ‘framework of analysis’
B. Promotion of the law
C. The ‘responsibility to protect’
D. Contributions by the United Nations system
E. The Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide

   III. Activities of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
 
A. Responding to situations of concern
i). Democratic Republic of Congo
ii). Kenya
iv). Sudan
iv). Other situations
B. Development of an information collection system and collaboration within the United Nations
C. Participation in conferences and workshops and outreach activities
D. Capacity

   IV. Conclusions
 

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