Wednesday, September 17, 2008
AU-EU Meeting on Universal Jurisdiction
(Destin de l’Afrique)--Representatives of the European Union and the African Union meeting in Brussels on September 16, 2008 were to discuss the crisis in Darfur and ‘universal jurisdiction,’ the concept by which countries can prosecute perpetrators of grave international crimes that have not been committed on their territory or against their citizens. They should use the meeting to affirm the need to bring to justice those who commit serious abuses, regardless of where they or their victims live.
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