European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
Positionspapier
2024
The principle of universal jurisdiction empowers national prosecutors to bring perpetrators of serious crimes to justice, breaking through barriers where other efforts have failed. Strengthening legal frameworks and bolstering investigative and prosecutorial capacities are essential to ensuring that there is no safe haven for those who commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
This policy brief outlines how the EU, alongside Eurojust, Europol and other key players, can and should strengthen this architecture of universal jurisdiction within the EU.
