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Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
121 [3]
Article-Summary: 

"National States alone cannot offer individuals the protection they need and deserve, as the attacks on the Twin Towers in Manhattan show. The protection offered by national States is not sufficient to guarantee the life and freedom of their citizens if the international community, too, is not based on the rule of law. Only the existence of mechanisms for the protection of all persons in all countries can bring lasting, comprehensive peace." This is an extract from an interview with the Inter...read more [4]

"National States alone cannot offer individuals the protection they need and deserve, as the attacks on the Twin Towers in Manhattan show. The protection offered by national States is not sufficient to guarantee the life and freedom of their citizens if the international community, too, is not based on the rule of law. Only the existence of mechanisms for the protection of all persons in all countries can bring lasting, comprehensive peace." This is an extract from an interview with the International Criminal Court's first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. The interview was published by www.moveon.org [5], an organisation that campaigns to bring ordinary people back into politics.

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Global South [6]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/16653 [7]

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