Recent worker campaigns, including OUR Walmart and Fight for 15, have invoked this responsibility as a talking point, broadcasting sympathetic tales of full-time McDonald's workers subsisting on charitable donations and food stamps.
Or he could invoke the "responsibility to protect" principle, cited by some officials to justify the American-led bombing campaign in Libya.
Yet clearly efforts at the Security Council to invoke the "responsibility to protect" are dead, because of the likelihood of a Chinese veto.
There was an attempt to invoke the responsibility to protect when cyclone Nargis devastated the Myanmar delta in 2008 and the government initially refused to allow in international aid workers, but this was rightly rejected as almost certain to make things worse.
Locals often invoke this legend to explain unexpected teenage pregnancies.
Invoking the responsibility of governments to protect the civilians of other countries from war crimes, Ms. Pillay said, "I fear that we in the international community are failing to meet our fundamental obligations to the victims".
GENEVA — The international community is failing to meet its obligations to victims of Syria's conflict, the United Nations' top human rights official said Monday, invoking the responsibility of governments to protect civilians of another country from war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
It's telling that Motahari appealed to a "NATO-like" force rather than invoking the "responsibility to protect" doctrine.
Even though UN High Commission for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has declared the plight of the Rohingya "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the UN body has not invoked the "responsibility to protect".
It's in these types of situations that the supposedly civilized nations the ones that go to war for petroleum, not to ethnically cleanse are supposed to invoke their "responsibility to protect".
