THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE TODAY

Through the description of how International Justice bodies have been built over the past 80 years, from the Nuremberg courts to today, we are witnessing a human and philosophical reflection on what is and what is sought with justice and with the protection of the dignity and life of any human being anywhere in the world.

AGAINST IMPUNITY IN ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AGGRESSIONS

A civil, global movement, in which more than 100 jurists from the five continents participate, intends that economic, financial and environmental aggressions, currently unpunished, can be pursued internationally. To prosecute a crime, the first thing is to define it. The movement is drafting a new Code of Universal Jurisdiction.

SHOW THE TOOLS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. SPECIAL COURTS, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION

The Universal Jurisdiction is a legal tool that allows the courts of any state to prosecute acts that have been committed in another state and remain unpunished, regardless of the nationality of the victims and the aggressors. So far, that is only possible for the crimes of genocide, aggression, war and crimes against humanity, among which are not economic or environmental.

SHOW THE REALITY OF A PLANET OF MORE THAN 7,000 MILLION INHABITANTS: SHARED SOVEREIGNTY

Among the economic, financial and environmental actions to be defined as Crimes Against Humanity, the following stand out: food fraud; the speculation of prices on products of first necessity on which depend the survival or the health of a generality of people; the labor exploitation of minors and the breach of the rights of internationally recognized workers; the illegal diversion of approved international funds to mitigate humanitarian catastrophes; the illicit traffic of arms towards places or zones of conflict or with express prohibition of exportation by the United Nations; the flight of corporations or massive extraction of funds that try to avoid the derived pecuniary responsibilities; forced transfers of communities for the purpose of exploiting the natural resources of their ancestral lands; illegal obstruction of the enjoyment of cross-border resources such as severe pollution of international rivers; the illegal exploitation of natural resources that seriously affect the health, life or peaceful coexistence of people with the natural environment in the space where exploitation takes place; the irreversible destruction of ecosystems.

“Faced with all these crimes, we are in what I call a shared sovereignty, a universal sovereignty. We talk about rationalizing, we talk about controlling that dark side of globalization”.

BALTASAR GARZÓN

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