The United States’ Recalcitrance to Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
The United States’ Recalcitrance to Ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Summary/Abstract: Throughout its history the United States has prided itself as being the beacon of freedom and a protector of human rights, and yet when it comes to ratifying some of the most important conventions and statutes in the ongoing international battle against genocide, its record is nothing short of sordid. Two of the most glaring examples are its ceaseless dithering to ratify theUNConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG), and its more recent opposition to the Rome Statute to establish the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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