GENOCIDE AS A GRAVE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?

The Russian Approach: The Fight Against Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity

Despite some ambiguous periods in Russia’s history, its record in affirming the foundations of humanism in international relations is unquestionable. The new democratic Russia, which is faithful to traditions of humanism and mercy, is making strong efforts to defend victims of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The experience of the international community in combating genocide,...

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...

A multidisciplinary approach to the investigation of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide: the Inforce Foundation.

Socio-political context A detailed examination of the socio-political context of the development and expansion of forensic anthropology and archaeology is outside the aim of this paper. For a more detailed consideration of this subject see Cox [I]. That paper considers why so many UK-based anthropologists and archaeologists seek to extend the traditional parameters of their subject beyond the a...