Crimes Against Humanity: Little Progress on Treaty as UN Legal Committee Concludes its Work

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

2021

Publication Title

Just Security

Abstract

The United Nations General Assembly’s legal committee again missed the opportunity to take action this year on the draft text of a new treaty on crimes against humanity proposed by the International Law Commission. The failure, in the form of a vote Nov. 18 on a draft resolution that simply took note of the draft articles, leaves a critical gap in the legal architecture for preventing and punishing mass atrocity crimes. The result deprives a range of victims and survivors the effective protection and justice they deserve.

Keywords

Crimes Against Humanity, International Courts, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Justice, International Law Commission, Treaties, UN General Assembly (UNGA), United Nations (UN)

Publication Citation

Leila Nadya Sadat, Crimes Against Humanity: Little Progress on Treaty as UN Legal Committee Concludes Its Work, Just Security (Dec. 7, 2021), https://www.justsecurity.org/79415/crimes-against-humanity-little-progress-on-treaty-as-un-legal-committee-concludes-its-work/

Repository Citation

Sadat, Leila Nadya and Radhakrishnan, Akila, "Crimes Against Humanity: Little Progress on Treaty as UN Legal Committee Concludes its Work" (2021). Scholarship@WashULaw. 902.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/902