IHRL Impunity enables Repetition: the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Rome Statute
[After 208, in Principles Section]
209. To protect and continue developing standards and mechanisms for realising human rights, the ACT Labor Government will: - actively oppose genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity including apartheid wherever these crimes are committed without being compromised by domestic political interests; and to do so where there is prima facie evidence and no later than where the ICJ or ICC has ruled plausible or convicted any entity or individual for perpetrating, coperpetrating, aiding or abetting, or complicity in these crimes.
[After 220, in Strategies Section]
221. Recognising genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity including apartheid as exceptional, the ACT Labor government will publicly and privately advocate that all federal governments, in accordance with Australia's obligations having ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Rome Statute:
i) act to prevent genocide, an obligation which is extra-territorial in scope; and ensure respect for human rights by those states over which they have influence;
ii) act to prevent and end genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity including apartheid, and including through vigorous diplomatic, political and rhetorical advocacy and actions supporting immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefires, protection of adequate humanitarian aid and civilian infrastructure, immediate termination of apartheid policies and institutions, and comprehensive boycott, divestment and sanctions, arms embargoes, and suspension of all diplomatic and cultural relations
iii) publicly affirm support for the independence and integrity of the ICJ and the ICC and the enforcement of all international arrest warrants