UN and US efforts to stop mass atrocities have waned, activists warn

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. The United Nations' "responsibility to protect" principle and the US efforts to build atrocity prevention mechanisms have, however, wilted in the face of…