International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
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The 1997 United Nations
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (Terrorist Bombings Convention) is a multilateral treaty
open to the ratification
of all states designed to criminalize the unlawful and intentional use of explosives in public places with intention to kill, to injure
, or to cause extensive destruction to compel a government
or an international organization
to do or to abstain from doing some act. It also seeks to promote police and judicial cooperation to prevent, investigate and punish those acts.
Article 2.1 of this convention defines the offence of terrorist bombing as follows:
Article 19 expressly excluded from the scope of the convention certain activities of state armed forces
and of self-determination
movements as follows:
For the text of this convention see: 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (Terrorist Bombing Convention)
United Nations
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International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (Terrorist Bombings Convention) is a multilateral treaty
Treaty
A treaty is an express agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be known as an agreement, protocol, covenant, convention or exchange of letters, among other terms...
open to the ratification
Ratification
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of all states designed to criminalize the unlawful and intentional use of explosives in public places with intention to kill, to injure
Injury
-By cause:*Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident*Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite*Injury from infection...
, or to cause extensive destruction to compel a government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
or an international organization
International organization
An intergovernmental organization, sometimes rendered as an international governmental organization and both abbreviated as IGO, is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states , or of other intergovernmental organizations...
to do or to abstain from doing some act. It also seeks to promote police and judicial cooperation to prevent, investigate and punish those acts.
Article 2.1 of this convention defines the offence of terrorist bombing as follows:
Article 19 expressly excluded from the scope of the convention certain activities of state armed forces
Armed forces
The armed forces of a country are its government-sponsored defense, fighting forces, and organizations. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body, and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external aggressors. In some countries paramilitary...
and of self-determination
Self-determination
Self-determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference...
movements as follows:
For the text of this convention see: 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (Terrorist Bombing Convention)
See also
- Definition of terrorismDefinition of terrorismThere is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the proper definition of the word "terrorism". Various legal systems and government agencies use different definitions of "terrorism". Moreover, the international community has been slow to formulate a universally agreed...
- International conventions on terrorism
- United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee (Legal)
Further reading
- ASIL, Conventions on the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and on Financing, 96 American Journal of International Law, 255-258.(2002)
- C.F. Diaz-Paniagua, Negotiating terrorism: The negotiation dynamics of four UN counter-terrorism treaties, 1997-2005, City University of New York (2008).
- Guiseppe Nesi, ed., International Cooperation in Counter-terrorism: the United Nations and regional organizations in the fight against terrorism. Aldershort, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., (2005).
- Ben SaulBen SaulBen Saul is associate professor of the University of Sydney and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. His research interests include international law, in particular, international aspects of anti-terrorism law, humanitarian law, human rights law, among others.Ben Saul publishes...
, Defining Terrorism in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) - Samuel M.,Witten, The International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, 94 American Journal of International Law 774 – 781 (1998).