human rights

• non members of the ICC

  In 2021 there were 42 states which had neither signed nor become parties to the Rome Statute which established the ICC, non-members include China, India and Saudi Arabia as well as Russia which withdrew its signature.
• UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
• Many UN peace-keeping operations and political and peacebuilding operations include human rights related mandates whilst environmental concern is far more rare.
• The ICC and special UN Tribunals often take years to prosecute individuals eg the trial of Milosovic - indicted in 1999, on trial in 2002 and died during trial in 2006