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Articles by Hans Corell
Russia Must Be Held Accountable for Alleged Criminal Aggression in Ukraine: Two Paths to Justice
The concept of aggression in modern international law is rooted in a complex history of war and conflict. Defined as the use of armed force by one state against another in the absence of the justification of self-defense or the authorization of the United Nations, aggression has been a recurring issue on the global stage.
Russia Must Be Held Accountable for Alleged Criminal Aggression in Ukraine: Two Paths to Justice
The authors, including a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the inaugural US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, urge the imperative of prosecuting alleged Russian crimes of aggression in Ukraine, and present two practical options for doing so... The concept of aggression in modern international law is rooted in a complex history of war and conflict.
A Special Tribunal for Ukraine on the Crime of Aggression - The Role of the U.N. General Assembly
Filed under: Crime of Aggression, Immunity, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Russia, Russia-Ukraine War, U.N. General Assembly and International Criminal Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine, Ukraine, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, Vladimir Putin I have learned that some UN Member States believe that only the UN Security Council can “create” an international criminal tribunal in the United Nations.
Bringing Putin to Justice and the Lessons of History
By Hans Corell, Irwin Cotler and David Crane October 13, 2022 The sounds of Wehrmacht jackboots marching into the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, and Austria; the drone of bombers overhead in Nanking, Spain, and Ethiopia as dictators, strongmen, and thugs gobbled up vast portions of the world in the 1930s, echo forward seven decades with Russia’s invasions of Georgia, then Crimea, and now Ukraine.
US once led international justice but, today, we're on wrong side of the law
With this month’s 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide it is important that mankind continue to maintain a system of international accountability to help prevent future atrocities. The Rwandan atrocity was one of the catalysts that created the modern international criminal law system. Coupled with the horrors in the Balkans, the United Nations, under the leadership of the United States, created the first international war crimes tribunals since Nuremberg in 1945.
”Sveriges plats i FN:s säkerhetsråd förpliktigar”
Sverige har nu valts till medlem i FN:s säkerhetsråd för perioden 2017-2018. Detta är naturligtvis glädjande.Frågan blir därmed hur Sverige på bästa sätt bör agera för att fullgöra sin skyldighet som rådsmedlem och verka för att FN:s ändamål och principer uppfylls.Säkerhetsrådet beskrivs ofta som FN:s mäktigaste organ.
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