Launched in November 2016, the Asia Pacific Partnership for Atrocity Prevention (APPAP) is a network of organizations that aims to contribute to the prevention of atrocities and protection ofvulnerable communities in the region. The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P) based at the University of Queensland St. Lucia in Brisbane, Australia serves as the
APPAP Secretariat.

APPAP’s goal is to facilitate coherent and comprehensive action to prevent atrocities that mobilizes the capacities of local, regional and global actors. APPAP’s founding members endorsed six key principles to guide their action:

1) the full implementation of the Responsibility to Protect principle as agreed by all governments at the 2005 World Summit, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;

2) the full implementation of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, especially,

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Second Optional Protocol thereto (1989)
• International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Arms Trade Treaty

3) full respect for the principle of inclusivity;

4) recognition and respect for cultural diversity;

5) recognition of the need for gender sensitive approaches to all aspects of work; and

6) recognition of the value of the rule of law, the principle of legal accountability and the need to end impunity