Question of the Punishment of War Criminals and of Persons Who Have Committed Crimes Against Humanity

A/RES/2583(XXIV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1968–1972

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/2840(XXVI)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1972	A/RES/2840(XXVI)	Question of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity	133	43%Compare
1971	A/RES/2712(XXV)	Question of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity	90	12%Compare
1970	A/RES/2583(XXIV)	Question of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity	500	—
1969	A/RES/2392(XXIII)	Question of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity	—	—
1968	A/RES/2338(XXII)	Question of the punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed crimes against humanity	685	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Crimes Against Humanity Extradition Prosecution Punishment Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties War Crimes War Criminals

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Calls upon all the States concerned to take the necessa_ry measures for the thorough investigation of war cnmes and crimes against humanity, as defined in article I of the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, and for the detection, arrest, extradit_ion and p~nishmen_t of all war criminals and persons gmlty of cnmes agamst humanity who have not yet been brought to trial or punished;

Invites States concerned which have not yet signed or ratified the Convention to do so as soon as possible;

Expresses the hope that States which were unable to vote for the adoption of the Convention will refrain from action running counter to its main purposes;

Again calls upon States which have not yet become parties to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to do so as soon as possible;

Draws attention to the special need for internati~:mal action in order to ensure the prosecution and pumshment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity;

Requests all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies to submit to the Secretary-General information on the measures taken by them in implementation of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to give priority at its twenty-fifth session to the question of further measures to ensure the extradition and punishment of war criminals and of persons who have committed cri::nes against humanity.

15 December 1969.

28 British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 144 (1952), p. 1072 (Declaration of St. J ames's).

24 U.S. Department of State Bulletin (Washington, D.C.), vol. IX, No. 228, p. 310 (Moscow Declaration on German Atrocities).

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