Topic: Universal Jurisdiction in Crimes against Humanity
Country: Denmark
Delegate Name: Paige Etchison
School: Fishers High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Denmark position papers GLIMUN 2011 committees
The people of Denmark have a strong allegiance to protecting the people on a global level. They are members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which “is an international tribunal empowered with the right to prosecute state-members' citizens for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreement” and are a party of the Convention against Torture and the Inter-American Convention, which state that any person(s) in the territories that have become parties of these agreements must turn over any suspected or proven criminals to their country of origin or to the country in which the crimes occurred. These international tribunals have helped to show the stance taken by the people of Denmark on the universal jurisdiction in crimes against humanity, and how that has shown their stance in global powers. Because they have had a constitutional monarchy since 1953, they have civil law and judicial review of legislative acts, which allows for the common people of Denmark to have influence over laws. This shows that people have an influence over the laws that are made which in turn allows the laws to generally be more humane.
The people of Denmark have the position of a strong alignment with other world powers in the topic of universal jurisdiction of crimes against humanity. The people of Denmark believe, as shown by their signing of the Convention against Torture and the Inter-American Convention, that crimes against humanity should be strongly opposed.
Denmark is strictly opposed to crimes against humanity, and is willing to sign most peace treaties that involve the reduction and/or prevention of these crimes, or the capture of criminals who have committed these crimes by means of teaming up with other countries law enforcements to catch these criminals. This is the stance of the country of Denmark on the topic of universal jurisdiction in crimes against humanity.
