He was so horrified he conceived the idea of the Red Cross. No government now or then would ever have had the mandate to think of such a thing because it's strictly international in concept. So all these organisations like Greenpeace, Amnesty International, are really vital. They are a new form of democracy. Although not elected, they are obviously a response to a public need.
Nothing can disappear more easily than a pressure group which has no pressure behind it.
The formation of the committee for the World Criminal Court is very important because there are corporations more powerful than many Governments. If Renault wants to shut a factory in Belgium, there's nothing the French Government or the Belgium Government can do about it, because it is accepted as a financial necessity. Immediately commerce is international, it follows automatically that crime becomes international because crime depends a great deal on commerce. The first great conference on a World Criminal Court was held under the aegis of the United Nations in Rome last year. When it came to a vote 120 countries voted for the idea of a World Criminal Court, with 21 abstentions, and seven against.