INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: International Criminal Court, Free Trade, World Trade Organization
Document Summary
Icc= international criminal court has powers of judicial enforcement. Is restricted largely to genocide, crimes, and crimes against humanity. Impact of the cold war and the war on terror on human rights. With the end of the cold war, more and more countries developed increasingly robust international human rights policies. Top ngos working on human rights central feature of the global human rights regime. Ngos are able to mobilize political energies of civil society by having a single minded focus on human rights. Typically refers to armed intervention with direct deployment military assets aimed at preventing or ending widespread and grave violations of human rights. (the other state gave no consent to be intervened) Argue that it is legal and necessary to stress human rights over state sovereignty: hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) rights are to (cid:271)e prote(cid:272)ted a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to the un charter, custo(cid:373)ary i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al la(cid:449) *moral: so(cid:448)ereig(cid:374)ty is tied to the duty of the state to prote(cid:272)t its (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s ex: somalia 1992.
