what international treaties address international justice?
A. International treaties such as the Genocide Convention, the Convention against Torture and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) all address international justice. When the U.N. adopted Genocide Convention in 1948, it recognized the need to establish an international criminal court to prosecute the crime of genocide: Article 5 of the Genocide Convention provides that persons charged with genocide shall be tried by an international penal tribunal. The Convention against Torture (adopted in 1984) requires that a state party either prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or extradite them to face trial elsewhere. The Rome Statute of the ICC (1998) represents the realization of one of the oldest items on the U.N. agenda, namely the establishment of a court to bring to justice those who commit grave human rights abuses.
