[DOWNLOAD] "Compromising Justice: Why the Bush Administration and the Ngos are both Wrong About the ICC." by Ethics & International Affairs ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Compromising Justice: Why the Bush Administration and the Ngos are both Wrong About the ICC.
- Author : Ethics & International Affairs
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 330 KB
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent international tribunal designed to hold individuals criminally accountable for genocide and other large-scale or officially planned atrocities. It entered into force on July 1, 2002, sixty days after the sixtieth state ratified the Rome Statute, which had been negotiated four years earlier. The establishment of the court elicited radically different responses from its supporters in the human rights community and its opponents in the U.S. government. To the former, the ICC is the fulfillment of the promise of Nuremberg that the perpetrators of international crimes will be held accountable, establishing a neutral court--unlike the one at Nuremberg, in which the victors judged the vanquished--that can operate independently of politics--unlike the Yugoslav and Rwandan tribunals, which were created by the Security Council. And if it can mete out justice consistently and impartially, then, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared, "impunity has been dealt a decisive blow." (1)