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SUMMARY:Panel three: Progress on a progressive Convention on Crimes again
 st Humanity
DESCRIPTION:After decades of study\, debate\, drafting and delay\, we are
  at last approaching an opportunity for substantive state discussion on 
 the merits of the draft articles for the first multilateral treaty on th
 e prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. Since they were 
 first prosecuted at Nuremberg in 1945\, crimes against humanity have nev
 er been the subject of a comprehensive international convention\, despit
 e the international community’s adoption of ground-breaking treaties on 
 genocide and war crimes. This absence introduces enormous practical and 
 legal roadblocks\, creating uncertainty for the rights of victims and de
 fendants across jurisdictions\, and inhibiting timely\, consistent inter
 -state cooperation on issues such as extradition and mutual legal assist
 ance. Although the International Law Commission adopted a draft text in 
 2019\, the document spent three years stalled in the Sixth Committee\, u
 ntil a resolution helped to break through the impasse this fall. As we a
 pproach the critical spring session in the Sixth Committee\, this panel 
 features some of the world’s foremost experts on crimes against humanity
  and invites them to explore opportunities to advance a progressive text
  in the upcoming negotiations\, which accounts for the full spectrum of 
 atrocities that should be addressed by the convention.\n\nOur experts wi
 ll outline the core areas where they will be hoping to focus states’ att
 ention in the months ahead and offer remarks on the ways in which the tr
 eaty text could help to address sexual and gender-based violence.\n
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