The article talks here on how human rights are still under at most humiliation when it comes to bringing justice towards victims of war from Congo to columnist and from Syria to Sri Lanka. Taking the recent London summit as reference author says how the summit ignored a burning issue as big as perpetrators enjoying sexual violence against children and women from these war zones in spite of knowing that some day they will be asked to answer for their crimes. Such a situation has arised because of the laws which are not stringent to make one frighten facing the verdict if proven for the crimes committed. Though Geneva conventions and special tribunals are best intentioned to try for genocide and ill acts of humanitarian, the results are not effective. The author feels that even the rent international criminal court based in Hague is unable to perform in its best intentions since a super power nation like the USA wasn't ready to come under ICC'S jurisdiction. An initiative taken by British secretary William Hague and U.N ambassador Angelina Jolie looked bleak for a powerful justice machine like ICC.
On a positive note though some 150 countries have agreed to sign the protocol in the London summit to fight against sexual crimes against women and children, one would only wonder how well will these countries put their words into action. Even as the summit was going on, news of African victims being sexually harassed at an assylim in UK has come out which poses as irony for the protocol which the British was signing in the first place. Having said that, the UK agreed to put pressure on the authorities to have a smooth
Operation at the asylum now that things are more visible in presence of world media. Though the moral issue of our time on how to handle women victims in these tough times was addressed by British personnel during the summit, one should keep in mind that in a democratic could try words will remain words as long as they are put in to effective action.
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