Treaties, Constitutions, and Laws Against War
You’d hardly guess it from all the silent acceptance of war as a legal enterprise and all the chatter about ways to supposedly keep war legal through the reform of particular atrocities, but there are international treaties that make wars and even the threat of war illegal, national constitutions that make wars and various activities that facilitate wars illegal, and laws that make killing illegal with no exceptions for the use of missiles or the scale of the slaughter. READ MORE.
Petitions
- To governments of world: Publicly Commit to Using the Rule of Law to Prevent War.
- To governments: When Nothing Else Works to End Israeli Genocide of Gaza, Urge Governments to Use UN General Assembly Res 377 “Uniting For Peace” for Peace in Palestine.
- To the United Nations: Apply the Rule of Law to Ukraine.
- To the International Criminal Court: Prosecute U.S. War Crimes.
- To governments: Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements.
Videos on Laws for Peace
Playlist
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Resources
- See A Global Security System.
- See our UN reform/re-creation proposal Global Emergency Assembly.
- Learn about When the World Outlawed War.
Articles
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