The UN Security Council is the body authorized to decide on behalf of the world community whether actions are a threat to world peace or whether human rights violations are so horrific as to trigger the responsibility to protect. ... In the fight against ISIS, the first thing Canada should do is to take the issue to the UN so that the coalition’s fight against lawlessness is itself authorized by international law. From the Justice Party National Platform: I. Social Justice 3. Restore our Commitment to Civil and Human Rights. In the last 40 years, particularly since 9/11, our government has violated civil and human rights in the United States and elsewhere, primarily under the guise of the war on terror. At the same time, there has been a vast expansion of the powers of the executive branch (and violations of federal and international law by the executive branch), with a corresponding and alarming secrecy, while Congress and the courts have provided very few checks on the abuses of power. We must reverse that trend and renew our commitment to the rule of law and to civil and human rights... f. Affirm the commitment of the United States to refrain from ever again engaging in a war of aggression as that crime has been prohibited by the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, the United Nations Charter, and the Nuremberg Principles. thestar/opinion/commentary/2014/10/08/bring_the_un_into_the_fight_against_isis.html
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