section_path: Protection at the international level/International courts
section_name: International courts
paragraph_text: International courts
  
  There exist a number of internationally recognized organisations with worldwide mandate or jurisdiction over certain aspects of human rights:
  
  The ICC and other international courts (see Regional human rights below) exist to take action where the national legal system of a state is unable to try the case itself. If national law is able to safeguard human rights and punish those who breach human rights legislation, it has primary jurisdiction by complementarity. Only when all local remedies have been exhausted does international law take effect.