Towards a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity: recommendations to States on the prohibition of amnesties
In a brief entitled “Towards a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity: recommendations to States on the prohibition of amnesties and other similar measures of impunity”, TRIAL International and 23 partner organizations urge States to support the opening of negotiations for an international treaty on Crimes against Humanity and to ensure that a prospective Convention explicitly bans amnesties and other similar measures of impunity, which may exempt perpetrators or alleged perpetrators of crimes against humanity from any criminal proceedings or sanctions.
In 2019, the International Law Commission (ILC) adopted the Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity (Draft Articles) and transmitted them to the UN General Assembly, recommending the elaboration of a convention on the basis of the ILC Draft Articles. The Sixth Committee of the General Assembly is set to take a decision on the ILC recommendation in autumn 2024.
The briefing paper is available in English here and in Spanish here
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The undersigned organizations:
- Apuesta Solidaria AC (ASAC), Mexico
- Asociación Centroamericana para el Desarrollo y la Democracia, Nicaragua
- Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala (FAMDEGUA)
- Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), Peru
- Bufete Jurídico de Derechos Humanos (BDH)
- Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM), Ecuador
- Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Argentina
- Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (PROMSEX), Peru
- Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), international organization
- Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género (Corporación Humanas), Chile
- Civicus, international organization
- Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres (CLADEM), regional organization
- Convergencia por los Derechos Humanos de Guatemala
- Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos de la Mujer (DEMUS), Peru
- Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), Peru
- Instituto sobre Raza e Igualdad y Derechos Humanos (Raza e Igualdad), regional organization
- Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA), Dominican Republic
- Observatorio Luz Ibarburu, Uruguay
- Oficina para Mesoamérica de Protection International, regional organization
- Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), regional organization
- TRIAL International, international organization
- Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos -Guatemala (UDEFEGUA)
- Urnas Abiertas, Nicaragua
- Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), regional organization
