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When it comes to the arguments on the International Crimes Court, I think the article presented by Daniel Abebe is the most convincing to me. After reading the article presented right before it, (the article by Anne Marie Gotez), it seemed that maybe the best way to fix the problems within the ICC would be to give them more funding and allow them to give more financial aid to the victims of these war crimes. Furthermore, she said that the funding for this program had been below a million and it was not enough for the ICC to function effectively. However, after reading the article presented by Abebe it stated that since 2002, the ICC has spent over a billion dollars. If in 20 years they were able to spend this mass amount of money, then there is no way that they are being underfunded. Moreover, Abebe states that the funding for the ICC is over 100 millions dollars a year, which is an incredible quantity of money for people to be asking for more money to be pumped into the system. Abebe claims that this money should be going elsewhere and should not be pumped into the ICC, who have proven ineffective in their rulings. He states that sending money into the health and education systems within Africa would do more good then shoving money into a failing organization. With the measles shot priced at $10 for 17 children, 1 billion dollars could go a long way in helping 1.7 billion children to be vaccinated and kept safe from a disease which we in America no longer have to worry about. Id people do not agree with the idea that the money should go to vaccines or medicines, Abebe claims that over 660 million people can be fed in Africa with this money. Overall, using the money to immediately help the people of Africa would be a lot more effective than letting the ICC continue spending these large amounts of money. If a system is proven to be ineffective even with a reasonable (or more than reasonable) amount of money, then perhaps we should use the money for something that would cause immediate good to the health of African adults and children.


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