Crimes Against Humanity
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Plea For A New Int’l Tribunal For Russia’s Crime Of Aggression
Tags Share By Olga Kostina The International Bar Association — the world’s leading organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies — adopted a resolution in late May condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging United Nations member states to support the creation of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute leaders of…
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Call to action to stop inhumane practice of solitary confinement in NC prisons
Tags Share Every day, tens of thousands of incarcerated Americans are subjected to an internationally recognized form of torture, and the horrors of it are largely hidden from public view. They spend 22 hours or more a day alone in locked cells the size of parking lot spaces, often in filthy conditions with little to…
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Indigenous women victims of sexual violence, tortured by Mexican Army
When Mexico’s war on drugs turns on its most vulnerable: sexual violence perpetrated by members of the Mexican army against a 73-year-old Indigenous woman.
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Building the Foundation: Accurately Understanding the Landscape of Injustice in Venezuela as the Investigation Resumes
Tags Share Leer en español. On June 27, following a deferral request filed by the Venezuelan government under Article 18(2) of the Rome Statute that resulted in over a year-long suspension, Pre-Trial Chamber I (“The Chamber”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) granted authorization for the Office of the Prosecutor to resume its investigation into…
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Construyendo los cimientos: entendiendo el panorama de la injusticia en Venezuela a medida que se reanuda la investigación ante la Corte Penal Internacional
Tags Share El 27 de junio, después de una solicitud de suspensión presentada por el gobierno de Venezuela en virtud del artículo 18(2) del Estatuto de Roma que resultó en un aplazamiento de más de un año, la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I (“La Sala”) de la Corte Penal Internacional (“CPI”) autorizó a la Fiscalía…
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Bangladesh: Government must investigate all cases of enforced disappearance, stop acts of retaliation, hold perpetrators accountable, and ensure the security of victims’ families
Tags Share Melbourne/ Hong Kong/ Manila/ Kuala Lumpur/ Bangkok/ Dhaka/ Geneva/ Paris/ Washington, D.C.; 25 May 2023: We, the undersigned organisations, are seriously concerned over the unabated enforced disappearances in Bangladesh amid the denial of access to justice for the victims. We also express our deep concern regarding the plight of the victims’ families, lack…
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Kerry Kennedy and Dick Durbin: Hold Russia accountable for the crime of aggression in Ukraine
Tags Share A full year has passed since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in February 2022. Let us repeat that: a full year. As the rest of the world aged and grew, grappled with technological advances, inflation, record-breaking drought, flooding and political shifts, residents of Ukraine have been unable to escape the single, all-encompassing…
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Genocide
Tags Share Elie Wiesel’s Interview with Kerry Kennedy KK: Why don’t you give in to futility, the sense that there’s nothing one person can do in the face of the world’s ills? What keeps you going? DR. WIESEL: When you think of the other you realize that something must be done. If I think of…
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Criminal Complaint Filed in Germany against Myanmar Generals for Atrocity Crimes
Tags Share (BANGKOK, January 24, 2023)—Fortify Rights and 16 individual complainants from Myanmar filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor General of Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction against senior Myanmar military generals and others for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Fortify Rights announced today. The 215-page complaint and more…
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IACHR submits case presented by RFK Human Rights and CERJ on human rights defenders who were disappeared during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala before the Inter-American Court
Tags Share November 2, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights formally began processing the case of Pérez Lucas et al. v. Guatemala, submitted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on September 26, 2022. The case refers to the forced disappearance of four human rights defenders in 1989 whose whereabouts are unknown to date.…
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CIDH somete caso de RFK Human Rights y CERJ sobre defensores desaparecidos durante el conflicto armado interno en Guatemala ante la Corte Interamericana
Tags Share El 2 de noviembre, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos dio inicio formal al trámite del caso Pérez Lucas y otros Vs. Guatemala, sometido por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) el 26 de septiembre de 2022. El caso se refiere a la desaparición forzada de cuatro defensores de derechos humanos en…
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BANGLADESH: Government must stop human rights violations and end impunity
Tags Share Kuala Lumpur/ Hong Kong/ Manila/ Bangkok/ Paris/Dhaka /Geneva /Johannesburg /Washington DC, 09 December 2022: The undersigned human rights organizations commemorate all victims of human rights violations and stand in solidarity with the victims’ families in Bangladesh and across the world. This year’s International Human Rights Day’s slogan is “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for…
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