This conviction lies behind the establishment of international humanitarian law and the supranational courts that address violations of it. And it underpinned the adoption of the “responsibility to protect” principle, which demands that the international community defend a country’s people from mass-atrocity crimes when their own government fails to do so.
从这个意义上，可持续发展目标更明确地反映了联合国推崇的理念，即所有人都是世界公民的原则。这是制定国际人道主义法律及建立超国家法院惩治违法行为背后的原则。在它的支持下通过了“保护责任”，即要求国际社会在国家政府无力保护民众免遭大规模暴行的情况下承担起这个职责。