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The World Needs a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Now - Foreign Policy

From China’s mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, to Syria’s torture and extermination of thousands of detainees, to Russia’s forcible transfer of civilians from occupied areas of Ukraine, no region of our planet is free from crimes against humanity. Nor are the perpetrators limited to state actors. Between 2014 and 2017, the militant group calling itself Islamic State committed unthinkable crimes against the Yazidis and many other communities in Iraq and beyond, including mass killing, abductions, enslavement, torture, and rape.

In the last 12 months in particular, we have witnessed the most horrific crimes in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, with potential crimes against humanity by both sides being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC), yet nothing seems capable of putting an end to the carnage in Gaza and the decades-long cycle of impunity.

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