Glaucia Torres

O trabalho, utilizando a revisao bibliografica da literatura especializada, bem como a analise documental indireta de relatorios institucionais produzidos pelas organizacoes internacionais, aborda a construcao e o fortalecimento da consciencia ambiental no âmbito internacional. Inicialmente realiza uma contextualizacao do sistema de producao contemporâneo e do fenomeno da globalizacao e suas influencias sobre o meio ambiente. Discute as principais conferencias organizadas pelas Organizacoes das Nacoes Unidas e quais foram suas principais contribuicoes para a elevacao da discussao da questao ambiental na agenda global. Reflete, ao final, sobre a importância das Organizacoes Internacionais como articuladoras dos Estados em torno da preservacao ambiental no contexto globalizado contemporâneo

The phenomenon of globalization has boosted the economic expansion of transnational corporations and influenced the weakening of States in their regulatory actions, since many of the commercial and economic maneuvers are beyond their scope. The present work intends to analyze the role of the consumer as actor with possibilities, eventhought indirect, to impose targets on the conduct of global companies. To reach this scope will be addressed the position occupied by the global companies today, the insufficiency of the States’s regulatory mechanisms and the possible role of the consumers in the imposition of standards of conducts to the transnational corporations.

The establishment of the International criminal Tribunal, a permanent organ, which occurred in 1998, was undoubtedly a breakthrough to the penalty of individuals in the international harvest. From their advent, people who commit some of the crimes typed in their constitutive act, the Rome Statute, may be prosecuted and judged in the framework of the ICC. There are into the statute four crimes punishable: crime of genocide, crime against humanity, crime of war and crime of aggression. However, although unprecedented convictions have become a reality after the court was created, there are many arbitrary actions committed in armed conflict still on the sidelines of the punitive mechanisms of the ICC. This is because of gaps in the range of their jurisdiction. In this research, it will be studied the main characteristics of the International criminal Tribunal and the loopholes that prevent all actions violating the crimes provided for in the Rome Statute are effectively achieved. The discussion on the subject is relevant to the extent that definitive solutions are needed to be found so that human rights violated do not remain unpunished in the international harvest.