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Crimes Against Humanity

2018
This chapter identifies three unfortunate gaps in the United States’ federal penal code: The United States lacks a crimes against humanity statute, the war crimes statute has a limited jurisdictional reach and does not conform to US obligations under the Geneva Conventions, and the code lacks express mention of superior responsibility.
Kerstin von Lingen   +7 more
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Crimes Against Humanity

2014
Abstract This chapter explains crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity are mass crimes committed against a civilian population. Most serious is the killing of entire groups of people, which is also characteristic of genocide. Crimes against humanity target fundamental, recognised human rights, in particular life, health, freedom,
Gerhard Werle, Florian Jeßberger
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Crimes against Humanity

2008
Abstract Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, annexed to the Four-Power Agreement of 8 August 1945, provides that the Tribunal established by the Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis ‘shall have the power to try and punish persons who, acting in the ...
F. Pocar, G. Acquaviva
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Crimes Against Humanity

2011
The modern concept of crimes against humanity is a product of the scale and horror of the crimes committed in the two world wars as well as a growing consensus in the international community that certain crimes committed within national borders are legitimate subjects of international law and adjudication. Unlike war crimes and genocide, crimes against
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Crimes Against Humanity

2019
Abstract Race and racism have a schizophrenic life in international criminal law (ICL) histories, both ever-present, and ever-elusive. This chapter excavates this double-life by tracing, not race, but its repression, in ICL historians’ projection of ICL’s origins to the mid-nineteenth century regime instituted to implement the ...
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