Torture, Crimes Against Humanity and the Abuse of International Law by Ronald J. Rychlak

“…Without defending the perpetrators of the abuse, this paper argues that the identified cases do not meet the legal standards to constitute either torture or crimes against humanity under international law. While those individuals who are guilty of abuse should be punished, neither they nor the Church officials who dealt with them (or failed to do so) are responsible for torture or crimes against humanity. …”
Get full text

Reparation for Victims of Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity in Ecuador by María Cristina Solís

Get full text

Scientific support for the use of psychiatric knowledge in the investigation of crimes against human life and health by D. V. Khoroshun

“…It has been determined that the current state of scientific significance of the use of special psychiatric and psychological knowledge in the investigation of crimes against human life and health is influenced by the peculiarities of development of criminal procedure legislation. …”
Get full text

Crimes against humanity in the context of the armed conflict in ukraine: definition, problems of distinction with related offences by Yu. V. Orlov

Subjects: Get full text

Potential international crimes in Ukraine: should atrocities in Bucha be classified as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity? by D. L. R. Tchobo

Get full text

War and criminal law policy of Ukraine: challenges and responses by Yu. V. Orlov, N. O. Pribytkova

Subjects: Get full text

Transitional justice and impunity for fascism in southern Europe: The case of Spain in a comparative perspective by Roque Moreno Fonseret, Pedro Payá López

Subjects: Get full text

“It is to be a punishment or a pardon is granted” or Whether the Criminal Code of Ukraine needs to have incentive norms about the crimes against human freedom, honor and dignity by Ya. H. Lyzohub

Get full text

La media prescripción frente al delito de desaparición forzada de personas. ¿Incumplimiento de la normativa internacional en materia de crímenes de lesa humanidad? by Isabel González Ramírez, Samuel Malamud Herrera, María Soledad Fuentealba Martínez, Florencio Pardo Montenegro

Subjects: Get full text

Constitucionalidade e convencionalidade da Lei de Anistia brasileira by Walter Claudius Rothenburg

Subjects: Get full text

SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MODERN RELIGIOUS TERRORISM by N. Grigoriev, E. Rodyukov

“…Religious terrorism today it, foremost, crime against humanity.…”
Get full text

THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: INTERROGATING THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SYRIA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…The United Nations Charter gives responsibility to international community to use appropriate diplomatic and other peaceful measure in accordance with Chapter VI and VIII of the Charter to help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. In the same vein, the responsibility to protect populations from genocide and other gross forms of human rights abuse emerged in 2005 as an important global principle during the UN World Summit Outcome Document. …”
Get full text

The Development and Evolution of the Right to Life in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by Sabrina Judith Kaliman

“…Furthermore, tries to define the crime of enforced disappearances that have been very important for the development of the right to life in the IACHR and which is a crime against humanity. Other important characteristic of this paper is that it examines the obligation to investigate, the procedural aspect of the right to life, the interpretation of Article 4 of the American Convention of Human Rights (Right to Life) and the proportionality of the use of the force of security forces in relation with the violation of the right to life. …”
Get full text

Liability issues for environmental damage caused by military aggression of a terrorist country by I. V. Kyrieieva

“…The research methods used, in particular, logical-semantic and dialectical, made it possible to consider the main features of the concept of “ecocide” as a crime against humanity and its direct connection with the genocide of the Ukrainian people. …”
Get full text

Latinoamérica y la CPI: afrontar la impunidad en Colombia by Bárbara Direito

“…In order to understand the degree to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) - the purpose of which is to combat impunity for crimes against humanity committed after 1 July 2002 - we must evaluate how the international community has reacted to it, and the degree to which it is implementing the fundamental principles consecrated by the Rome Statute. …”
Get full text

The International Criminal Court and Catholic Social Doctrine by John M. Czarnetzky

“… The International Criminal Court was the result of decades of postwar pressure to establish a permanent tribunal with jurisdiction over the most heinous crimes against humanity.  Despite the noble goals of its architects, the ICC has not been effective in prosecuting such crimes.  …”
Get full text

Urgensi Ratifikasi Statuta Roma Bagi Indonesia by Danel Aditia Situngkir

“… The presence of permanent the International Criminal Court is a realization of the efforts of the international community to provide protection against human rights from extraordinary crimes against humanity. The court established under the Rome Statute has been ratified by 123 countries. …”
Get full text

Turkmens: Victims of Arabization and Kurdification Policies in Kirkuk by Şafak OĞUZ

“…The demography of the city has been changing in favor of the Kurds, who have resorted to all means, not excluding crimes against humanity, to form the majority of the city’s population before the referendum that will decide not only the status of the city but also the future of Iraq and the Middle East. …”
Get full text