Continuing Uncertainties: Forced Marriage as a Crime Against Humanity

Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?

Impunity or immunity: wartime male rape and sexual torture as a crime against humanity.

This paper seeks to analyze the phenomenon of wartime rape and sexual torture of Croatian and Iraqi men and to explore the avenues for its prosecution under international humanitarian and human rights law. Male rape, in time of war, is predominantly an assertion of power and aggression rather than an attempt on the part of the perpetrator to satisfy sexual desire. The effect of such a horrible ...

Gender selection: a crime against humanity or the exercise of a fundamental right?

This article will not discuss the technical points raised in the paper by Fugger et al. (Fugger et al., 1998), nor will it consider how semen is obtained, since by definition it is unacceptable, for example from the Vatican’s point of view. Let us suppose that all problems of safety and efficiency have also been solved. It seems we have to consider several kinds of possible indications: (i) pre...

Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes.

We study the impact of marriages resulting from bride kidnapping on infant birth weight. Bride kidnapping-a form of forced marriage-implies that women are abducted by men and have little choice other than to marry their kidnappers. Given this lack of choice over the spouse, we expect adverse consequences for women in such marriages. Remarkable survey data from the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyz...

Crime against humanity; European views on its conception and its future.