Political Science 3366E Lecture Notes - David Scheffer, United Nations Convention Against Torture, Thrust2

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Limits on international cooperation: war crimes, the international criminal court and torture: efforts to address the subject of war crimes have been attempted. Five of the six most popular countries in the world not joined the icc: Between them, 3. 21 billion of the 6. 83 billion of world"s population. It seems pretty straightforward that war crimes should be condemned and perpetrators should be punished. However, the issue of a state"s sovereignty also comes into play: 1990 was a year where ethnic cleansing" occurred. The worst of these happened in bosnia during the early 1990"s and rwanda in 1994. Humanitarian law and international human rights have never been more developed, yet never before have human rights been violated more frequently". Idea of defining criminal behaviour and enforcement of laws are recent phenomenon, only started after ww2. Rape" has only recently been added to the list of punishable crimes against humanity: establishment of a controversial permanent icc with mandatory jurisdiction over war crimes.

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