After the atrocities that transpired in World War II, the United Nations General Assembly seemed quick to want to right the wrongs they witnessed. For example, just one day after the UDHR was ratified, it adopted its first legally binding text regarding the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide. This convention came on the heels of the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials. Considering the systematic address of human rights by the international community was so novel, do you think the UN got ahead of its by enacting these revolutionary documents in such quick succession? Do you think their eagerness helped or hindered the enactment of state practices that protected the human rights outlined by the documents?
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