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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Julian Borger in Jerusalem

World faces ‘heightened risk’ of mass atrocities due to global inaction

A Sudanese family of six people sit and lie on sandy ground in front of a horsedrawn cart laden with their possessions, with other horses and carts seen in the background
A Sudanese family fleeing the conflict in the Darfur region waits to be registered by UNHCR after crossing the border to Adre, Chad, July 2023. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Human rights activists say that the international community has given up on intervention efforts to stop mass atrocities, leading to fears that such occurrences may become the norm around the world.

The warnings come on the 75th anniversaries this weekend of the Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, both signed in the aftermath of the Holocaust in the hope that the world would act in concert to prevent a repeat of such mass slaughter.

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