On Our Watch: The Genocide Convention and the Deadly, Ongoing Case of Darfur and Sudan

From the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide (Genocide Convention) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights2 in 1948, to the Responsibility to Protect in 2001, the modern human rights revolution has produced an extraordinary range of international norms that articulate the rights of human beings within and across state boundaries." Human rights assert the radical idea that everyone everywhere shares an equal birthright of dignity that should be recognized in law and politics as matters of principle and practice.