NCJ Number
119621
Date Published
1989
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The United Nations (UN) Declaration on Victims (1985) enjoins remedies for abuse of power, such as government contempt for UN law, failure to teach about the UN, and confinement to nationality.
Abstract
There is a political side to victimization, namely, giving one's loyalty to the losing dogma of national sovereignty, to a government which is soft on the rule of law and pursues peace and prosperity through eccentric isolation. People have a right to peace under law; the realization of that right depends on individuals accepting that they are world citizens and that national affections are incidental and, when exclusive of the larger self, puerile and victimogenic. Whether or not there is an enforceable juridical right to peace under law, there is at least a right to bigot-free education concerning peace under UN law. A full education is one based on the world community and world State that detribalizes people and acculturates them to the world view alongside local peculiarities. Citizenship is the legal link between an individual and a State under which the individual receives certain rights and protections in return for allegiance and duties. There is no world citizenship without world government. Bibliography