Mounting Human Rights Violations: Causes & Remedies

Ramesh Thakur is Professor and Vice Rector at the United Nations University, Tokyo. A leading interntional authority on UN issues and peacekeeping, he is the author/editor of eighteen books and has written over 150 articles for reputed international journals. He has also served as a commissioner of the Interntional Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which came out with the document Responsibility to Protect in 2001.