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You’ve made this argument before and I don’t see how it is relevant especially to your parent. The Rome Statute is an international treaty by every definition
by runarberg 1y ago
You’ve made this argument before and I don’t see how it is relevant especially to your parent.
The Rome Statute is an international treaty by every definition of that term. It is available to every sovereign state, and has been signed and ratified by a majority of the UN member states on all six habitable continents. The ICC is as global as the WHO, UNICEF or the International Atomic Energy Agency.
- tptacek 1y agoIt's a treaty; that's all it is. It doesn't bind non-signatories.
- runarberg 1y agoStill, I don‘t know why that is relevant. Signatories have all agreed to establish a global court and grant jurisdiction accordingly. If the court has jurisdiction, it doesn’t matter whether a perpetrator is from a non-signatory country or not. In this case, the signatory is the state of Palestine, jurisdiction has been established, and it affects anyone who commits specific crimes within that jurisdiction.