Name-SAIBY KHAN

Roll no-IUU20LLM042

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Nature of international crimes-

Historical background :-International criminal law deals with different types of violations,
such as political violence, forced displacement and transfer of persons or protection of goods
(e.g. cultural property). One approach is to define international criminal law based on the
protection of certain public goods or interests. International criminal law protects individual and
collective interests, such as peace and security, individual and group rights or human dignity.
Unlike human rights law, it does not primarily seek to frame these interests as rights. It rather
sets obligations. Individual or collective rights (e.g. civil and political rights, minority rights and
certain socio-economic or cultural rights) are protected because of their relevance to broader
community interests, or their context (i.e. the organized or systematic nature of violations, their
relevance in situations of armed conflict or their transboundary nature). There is no unified
theory on what ought to be protected by international criminal law, and what constitutes an
‘international crime’. Rather, what international criminal law is has developed incrementally.

• crimes which violate or threaten fundamental values or interests protected by international law
and which are of concern to the international community as a whole:

criminal norms emanating from an international treaty or from customary international law,
without requiring intermediate provision of domestic law;

• criminal norms which have direct binding force on individuals and therefore provide for direct
individualcriminal responsibility:

• crimes which may be prosecuted before international or domestic criminal courts in accordance