Topic: Universal Jurisdiction in Crimes against Humanity
Country: Sierra Leone
Delegate Name: Amelia Berg
School: Williamston High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Sierra Leone position papers GLIMUN 2011 committees
Universal Jurisdiction in crimes against humanity has been debated for quite a while. Sierra Leone believes that in certain circumstances force is required for citizens to obey laws. Other ways such as jail or community service is too laid back for some people to understand the severity of what they did and is too relaxed to be an effective punishment.
Sierra Leone has been a country for nine years. That is a very short period of time. Sierra Leone is still trying to figure out what they should or should not do. At this point Sierra Leone believes that force is the best what to get citizens to respect and obey laws the government has put into place. Sierra Leone believes it is acceptable for certain crimes to have a physical punishment.
Since Sierra Leone uses physical force as a punishment Sierra Leone's citizens have learned to obey the laws that are set.It is a very effective punishment that is why Sierra Leone does it. Sierra Leone's citizens want to obey the law, isn't that what each country want? All of it's citizens to want to obey the law? Sierra Leone recommends it to all the countries. Sierra Leone believes that if all countries had the same punishment laws as Sierra Leone than the world's crime rate will drop by a major amount. All the countries that use jail time or community service as a punishment have higher amounts of crime rate. Sierra Leone looked at this and decided that there is a better more affective way to punish people for the crimes they have committed.
