Jan Egeland, Human Rights Watch How can veterans contribute to peace and security ?

Jan Egeland,Human Rights Watch

How can veterans

contribute topeace and security ?

World Veterans Federation’s Peace

and Security Summit

29/05, 2013

Source: National Geographic, 2011

40 years of

progress

The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, HDRO-UNDP – November 2010

Based on data from Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2011 survey

http://www.hsrgroup.org/human-security-reports/2012/overview.aspx

Foto: UNDPI

Foto: Scanpix/AFP/Saba Arar.

Photo: Daily Monitor, Kampala

Parties to the ICC Rome Statute in green. States that have signed, but not ratified in orange.

Non-parties in grey (as of 2 December 2011)

Based on data from The International Criminal Court, www.icc-cpi.int

Keeping pressure on a notorious war

criminal.

IMPACT STORY

11

COUNTS OF WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

MUTILATING AND BEATING

ENSLAVEMENT

RAPE

DIAMONDS FOR GUNS

OTHER SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF HUMANITARIAN LAW

MURDER

SEXUAL SLAVERY

WAR CRIMES

RECRUITING AND USING CHILD SOLDIERS

OUTRAGES ON PERSONAL DIGNITY

TERRORIZING CIVILIANS

LOOTING

CRUEL TREATMENT

- On April 26, 2012, Taylor became the first former president to be convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Source: The Globalization of Crime. A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment, UNODC 2010

Foto: UNDPI