JHA Diplomacy Towards the Universal Criminal Justice - 20 Years After
JHA Diplomacy Towards the Universal Criminal Justice - 20 Years After

Author(s): CARLOS LOPEZ-VERAZA PÉREZ, Anis H. Bajrektarević
Subject(s): History of Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: JHA; diplomacy; international regime; multilateral treaties; trafficking in human beings; terrorism; UNODC; universal criminal justice;
Summary/Abstract: The year 2020 marked the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Convention and its Protocols, the main instruments in the fight against transnational crime. Both authors, one as an active participant in the Palermo system treaty-making and the other as a prosecutor passionate about human rights, revisit, rethink and sum up the first 20-year period after the creation of these important international instruments on organized crime and corruption. The following lines are a brief assessment of the central institutions and instruments relevant to universal criminal justice. A due reference is made to corruption, trafficking in human beings, migrant smuggling, and terrorism. The present text appeared in 1999 for the first time (in a considerably shorter form, as the working paper dealing only with the critical similarities and differences between ‘smuggling of’ and ‘trafficking in’) before the ICMPD Steering Board – Ministerial.

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