With a goal of reducing crimes of human rights abuses internationally, the creation of the International Criminal Court was being discussed during a conference in Rome in 1998. Amongst the discussion was the Rome Statute, which was issued along with the International Criminal Court in 2002. The reason for the creation of the International Criminal Court was to attempt to prevent countries political leaders from breaking international law. The group was focused on preventing crimes against humanity and genocide within nations whose leaders are committing these atrocities, and attempts to prosecute these criminals through court jurisdiction. Although the International Criminal Court has put in efforts to create justice amongst these nations and …show more content…
The argument being proposed in this essay is that the United States Security Council and the International Criminal Court should be merged into one large international organization due to the inefficiency of the International Criminal Court and the abilities it would gain if it were to be merged with the United Nations Security Council. The International Criminal Court is an expensive organization that has produced arguably no results, and it gains all its cases from the United Nations Security Council anyways. Joining together would make the process of catching these criminals much more efficient, as they would gain support from larger nations in the UN such as the United States, who have been critical towards the ICC. Although recently it has looked like the ICC is starting to make progress, the fact of the matter is that the organization can basically only point fingers and call names. Without the supervision from the United Nations Security Council, the ICC would be absolutely useless in bringing justice to these criminals and their nations that have been harmed through their