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Coming Debates to Advance New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Will Require Skillful Leadership
Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
2022
Publication Title
Just Security
Abstract
The resolution adopted recently at the United Nations General Assembly’s legal committee on draft articles for a treaty on crimes against humanity creates a two-year process for debate and discussion of the proposal within the committee. This opens the door for the possible adoption of a new, critically needed, global treaty on crimes against humanity within the next three or four years. Such a treaty would close several gaps in the legal architecture of atrocity crimes — particularly the legal obligation to prevent crimes against humanity, a duty not imposed by complementary regimes, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the proposed Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.
Keywords
Crimes Against Humanity, Treaty, United Nations
Publication Citation
Leila Nadya Sadat and Akila Radhakrishnan, Coming Debates to Advance New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Will Require Skillful Leadership, Just Security (Dec. 20, 2022)
Repository Citation
Sadat, Leila Nadya and Radhakrishnan, Akila, "Coming Debates to Advance New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Will Require Skillful Leadership" (2022). Scholarship@WashULaw. 59.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/59