Description: Individual Liability in International Law
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Congratulations! You have reached this website dedicated to presenting and discussing the Nuremberg Principles. This was launched in August 2019 to mark the 74th anniversary of the first document signing that led to the final adoption of the Nuremberg Principles, a key set of principles of international humanitarian law.
Following launch of the website new content will be added from time to time, and a first extension will be a discussion forum to enable you to participate in discussions of key relevant topics. One essential important topic affects individuals who have responsibility for the design, development, and deployment of weapons and their uses that breach international humanitarian law.
The Nuremberg Principles started life in World War II as awareness of the atrocities being committed by the military powers of Germany and Japan (and their associates) grew and caused international outrage. The first formal communication about the atrocities was in the Moscow Declaration of 1943. That Declaration set out an intention to pursue perpetrators after the end of the war.