International criminal law

incarcerated. I want to be in law enforcement because I have seen how crime can have a negative impact on communities. Growing up in a St. Petersburg, Florida, I have seen how drug dealers and crime harmed communities, and affected families. I believe that receiving my Bachelors of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Studies will equip me with the tools that I need to be a successful law enforcement officer. Although, there are many negatives that surround the current state of law enforcement, I…

The International Criminal Court (“ICC”) informed all State Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC (“Rome Statute”), to which South Africa is a party, to cooperate with the arrest warrant and to surrender Al-Bashir to the Court if he enters into their territorial jurisdiction. It is the first warrant of arrest issued to a head of state by the ICC. This illustrates the importance of accountability…

What is the relationship between the self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of states in contemporary international politics? 1 This report elucidates the link between sovereignty of states & self-determination of peoples therefore the focal point of this essay is to elaborate on the underlying concept of sovereignty as it incorporates the protection and the practice of various human rights as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The main goal of this…

filmmakers at National Geographic shot a documentary about one of the most famous prisons in the world, Guantánamo Bay. Guantánamo Bay is a military naval base in Cuba. Guantánamo Bay is an American detention camp that detains insanely dangerous war criminals for interrogative purposes. It is known for its inhumane treatment of prisoners. National Geographic captured the daily life of the struggle between young military personnel and prisoners, many of whom have been released due to wrongful…

International Criminal Court Guilty! Is what people hear when someone is convicted of a crime in a courtroom. Crimes are defined differently in other countries, but how do they settle the matter if it is a crime against humanity itself? That is when the International Criminal Court (ICC) comes in to handle these situations. The court is the system that we use to handle problems in the tough times. First, how it came into action and how it works. Second, the court defines what makes the crimes…

The International criminal court was created to create peace in the world by enforcing law and arresting those guilty of crimes again human rights. The ICC is not only for third world countries, dictatorship ruled countries, war ridden countries; it is also for first world countries. ICC attempts to or catches criminals that revoke human rights by enacting in illegal activities; such as LRA militants that take children from their homes, make them pick up guns and kill their parents. In third…

multilateral intervention was unsuccessful. The question is why humanitarian intervention in Kosovo and not Cambodia or Libya and not Iraq? What made Kosovo the exception? Humanitarian intervention is carried out by an multilateral force under international organizations like the UN (Kouchner, 4). The Kosovo precedent is key in understanding the intent of intervention and its flaws today. The intervention proved that the global community does not tolerate the killing of an entire people. It is…

brainwashing nazi Germany regime in order to scope the effects of this government run genocide. I will argue that while states can be guilty of crimes difficulty arises in the jurisdiction to which they can be held accountable and when these international criminal courts don 't have their own policing teams it can be hard to punish people in power within their own state. By definition from Kramer and Michalowski (2005, pp. 447-448) state crime…

Certain measures have been implemented to deal with the promotion and enforcement of human rights on an international level. Those bodies that are not able to enforce decisions or laws primarily deal with the promotion of these rights. These include non-legal responses such as the media and non-government organisations. They must work in conjunction with courts and tribunals that do have adequate power to enforce their findings although these are often very costly options. Each response has at…

different views and ideas about the key actors that we should look for the largest contributions to strengthening these two sectors. With the increase of the globalization of our planet our problems have become intertwined and many believe that an international approach is the best solution. There are also differences in what people believe to be the most serious issue at this moment. Within human security and global economics I will discuss the multiple views of the different course materials I…