International Law

International Law

• How well it works depends on if countries accept and enforce it.

• Law needs to be used to be useful.

• Justice is hard to achieve worldwide because there's no main power.

International Criminal Court (ICC)

• Handles big global crimes like genocide.

• About 900 people work there.

• Only a few convictions since 2002 (just ten).

• Not every country agrees with or helps the ICC.

• People argue if it's effective: some think it stops crimes, others think it's weak because it needs countries to do the investigating.

International Law Challenges

• Needs all countries to agree and work together.

• Good international law makes global justice more likely.