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Human Rights Watch welcomes the steps taken by the A.U. to
create a normative framework for regional conflict prevention and intervention.
We urge the A.U. to ensure that the protection of civilians and the fight
against impunity is central in all its conflict prevention and intervention
initiatives. We believe that the A.U. could successfully establish lasting
peace and security if these objectives—protecting civilians and combating
impunity—were more explicitly integrated into A.U. organs. In each of the three
crises described above, impunity for past abuses has been the rule and
contributed to the atrocities of today. We call on the A.U. to actively continue
to build on initial measures to prevent and intervene in conflict situations
and protect human rights.
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