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Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of International Criminal Justice, 2018
Like the Genocide Convention, the draft articles on crimes against humanity are not confined to issues of punishment. They also, in the preamble and especially in article 4, impose an obligation of prevention. It is informed principally by the 2007 judgment of the International Court of Justice as well as be case law of international human rights ...
W. Schabas
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Crimes against Humanity

open access: yesVictoria University Law and Justice Journal, 2018
This article has been adapted from the 8th Michael Kirby Justice Oration, delivered at the College of Law & Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne, on 26 September 2018.
Kerstin von Lingen   +7 more
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

Crimes against humanity in the context of the armed conflict in ukraine: definition, problems of distinction with related offences

open access: yesLaw and Safety, 2023
The article is devoted to the characteristics of crimes against humanity as a category of international criminal law and in the context of the armed conflict in Ukraine.
Yu. V. Orlov
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Prosecuting Crimes against Humanity and Genocide at the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh: An Approach to International Criminal Law Standards

open access: yesLaws, 2021
Bangladesh is recently prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in the Liberation War of 1971 via a domestically operated tribunal, namely the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB). Though the
Maruf Billah
doaj   +2 more sources

Introductory Reflections on Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity and their Representation in Documentary Film

open access: yesContinuum, 2020
In recent years the number of diverse forms of cultural productions focused on the perpetrators has increased significantly eliciting thus a turn toward this problematic figure.
Fernando Canet
exaly   +2 more sources

Failing to fulfil the responsibility to protect: the war on drugs as crimes against humanity in the Philippines

open access: yesPacific Review, 2020
The article provides the first substantive analysis of the war on drugs in the Philippines under the Responsibility to Protect. It develops in two stages. First, it argues that the war on drugs constitutes crimes against humanity through an analysis of, (
Adrian Gallagher   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Armed Groups and Crimes against Humanity

open access: yes, 2017
The chapter considers the relevance of the law on crimes against humanity to explanations of how armed groups are bound by international human rights law. Exploring the two-tiered nature of crimes against humanity, it shows that responsibility for crimes
Katharine Fortin
exaly   +2 more sources

Crimes against humanity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
57 Resumé "Crimes against humanity" (the thesis title) Crimes against humanity constitute one of the three integral parts of "crimes under international law." At the same time they represent the most severe form of infringement of fundamental human ...
Podlahová, Veronika
openaire   +2 more sources

Considerations Regarding Crimes Against Humanity

open access: yesJournal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2014
the Second World War offered the opportunity, to the international community, to realize the total lack of international law prohibiting the worst inhumane acts.
Bogdan Birzu
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual Violence as Torture: Crimes against Humanity during the 1965–66 Killings in Indonesia

open access: yesJournal of Genocide Research, 2017
In this article, I argue that sexualized forms of torture perpetrated mainly against women and girls in political detention camps across Indonesia between 1965 and 1970 were crimes against humanity.
Annie Pohlman
exaly   +2 more sources

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