Sign
this petition to the world's
governments:
Neither the United States
nor Russia is a party to the International Criminal
Court – and the United States punishes other governments for
supporting the ICC.
Both the United States and
Russia defy the rulings of the International Court of
Justice.
Of 18 major human rights treaties, Russia
is party to only 11, and the United States to only
5, as few as any nation on Earth:
https://indicators.ohchr.org.
Both nations
violate treaties at will, including the United Nations
Charter, Kellogg Briand Pact and other laws against war.
While most of the world upholds disarmament and
anti-weapons treaties, the United States and Russia
refuse to support and openly defy major treaties.
There is a problem in world leadership.
Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine – as well as
the previous years of U.S./Russian struggle over Ukraine,
including U.S.-backed regime change in 2014, Russia's
annexation of Crimea, and the mutual arming of conflict in
Donbas -- highlight this problem in global leadership.
Russia and the United States
stand as rogue regimes outside the Landmines Treaty, the Arms
Trade Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (prohibiting
their use, production and transfer), and many other treaties.
Russia stands accused of using cluster bombs in Ukraine today,
while U.S.-made cluster munitions have been used by Saudi
Arabia near civilian areas in Yemen.
The United
States and Russia are the top two dealers of weaponry to
the rest of the world, together accounting for a majority of
weapons sold and shipped. Meanwhile most places experiencing
wars manufacture no weapons at all. Weapons are imported to
most of the world from a very few places.
Neither
the United States nor Russia supports the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Neither complies with the
disarmament requirement of the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty, and the United States actually keeps nuclear weapons
in five other nations and considers putting them into more,
while Russia has talked of putting nuclear weapons in Belarus
and recently seemed to threaten their use over the war in
Ukraine.
The United States and Russia are the
top two users of the veto power at the UN Security Council,
each frequently shutting down democracy with a single vote.
There are about 200 other governments on Earth, and
they shouldn't stand for this.
We appeal to the
world's non-imperial governments to democratize the United
Nations, the International Court of Justice, and the
International Criminal Court -- and to impose the rule of law
by super-majority consensus on the planet's rogue states.
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