Genocide has been a central topic of current politics several times in the last two decades, especially over Bosnia and Rwanda. Its history has also been a topic of controversy, in countries such as Germany, Japan, and Turkey over murderous Violence in the two world wars, and in North America and Australia over earlier violence against the indigenous peoples. The Spectre of the archetypal genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, stalks twenty first century relations between Israelis and Palestinians. In many other places in the todays World, allegations of genocide are made and, almost invariably,...

One of the most significant international organizations to be created since the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, ushers in a new era of the protection of Human Rights. The role of the International Criminal Court is recognized in a multilateral system that aims to end impunity, strengthen the rule of law, promote and project respect for human rights and establish world peace, in accordance with international law.The International Criminal Court is a court that will complement the jurisdiction of national systems; it will not replace or supersede national courts and systems of...