Part 3: Video Expansion of ICJ Injunction Request Regarding Peru, Ecuador, Poland, and USA

11. In Africa, the Constitutive Act of the African Union authorizes the Union to intervene in a Member State in respect of grave circumstances, namely war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. There is no doubt that this constitutes significant progress in a continent bedevilled lately by internal conflicts. However, we still have to see the actual use of this right by the African Union in order to save the lives of those who risk becoming victims of hatred and prejudice in their own countries.

12. This means that the observance and enforcement of the legal instruments adopted at the international level is of primordial importance. Education is equally paramount, for it is ignorance that breeds intolerance and prejudice. To paraphrase that famous sentence in the Constitution of UNESCO, the defences of humanity against bigotry, prejudice and racism, and for peace among peoples and nations, must be constructed in the minds of men. Remembering the Holocaust is part and parcel of that education and of those defences. We cannot afford to forget what happened. Remembering the Holocaust means reaffirming our humanity in the face of the inhumanity that took place in Auschwitz and other concentration and extermination camps.

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