Imagine this; you and your families lives are in a great threat of being killed. An organisation which you have briefly heard of as the United Nations has a mandate to help your country. Yet they look on as the enemy holds you at gunpoint, despite pledging human rights, “We the peoples of the United Nations determined…
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to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,” (www.tigweb.org, 2004). They stand by as innocent civilians are being murdered. They have failed you, like they have failed thousands of others.
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