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Article: How the UN can advance gay rights.(Essay)

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November 1, 2003
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THE OUTRAGES against human dignity committed by the Nazis in World War II galvanized the global community in its search for justice and reconciliation, beginning with the trials of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945. The second half of the 20th century witnessed the progressive development of human rights and humanitarian law against the worst violations, culminating in the UN's ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the global campaign to establish the world's first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC). On July 1, 2002, the Rome Statute establishing the ICC went into force. With its ability to impose individual ...

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