Coming Debates to Advance New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Will Require Skillful Leadership

Authors

Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University in St Louis School of LawFollow
Akila Radhakrishnan, Strategic Litigation Project (Atlantic Council)

Document Type

Blog Posting

Language

English (en)

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, International Justice, International Law Commission, Proposed Crimes Against Humanity Treaty, Treaties, UN General Assembly (UNGA), United Nations (UN)

Publication Citation

Leila Nadya Sadat & Akila Radhakrishnan, Coming Debates to Advance New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Will Require Skillful Leadership, Just Security (Dec. 20, 2022), https://www.justsecurity.org/84496/coming-debates-to-advance-new-treaty-on-crimes-against-humanity-will-require-skillful-leadership/

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. 899.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/899