Chautauqua Declaration

On August 29, 2007 an unprecedented group of nine war crimes prosecutors gathered in Chautauqua, New York.  The prosecutors, including the last living prosecutors from the Nuremberg Trials, met to sound a clarion call to  end "impunity by perpetrators of crimes of concern to the international community." 

The result of the meeting was the First Chautauqua Declaration, which stands for the proposition that international justice is an issue of law, not choice.  It calls on members of the international community to live up to the promises of peace and justice which they have made. 

The above video was recorded on the day of the signing.

For more information, please see:
GlobalSolutions.org -- Chautauqua Declaration

The American Society for International Law -- International Criminal Tribunal Prosecutors Issue Joint Declaration