Sentences with phrase «cases of genocide»

Working on cases of genocide and other horrendous crimes has taken its toll on Stewart, although he is not necessarily aware of how much.

This is at the very heart of the Israeli conflict, as well as many of the conflicts in the Middle East, and most cases of genocide.

It will hear cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity that national governments are unable or unwilling to prosecute.

None of this was «motivated» by Christianity, though, in the case of genocide, there was going to be an inherent element in some cases.

I have never seen a case of genocide that was good.

Not exact matches

After Ronan Farrow compared ISIS content to the radio broadcasts in Rwanda that many believe helped fuel a genocide in that country in the 1990s, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argued that in some cases social platforms probably should remove violent content, because of the risk that distributing it will help fuel similar behavior.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Furthermore, even in cases where «survival of the fittest» has been used to justify genocide, the people doing the actual killing have not been atheists.

He explained how David Cameron once said: «there is a very strong case here for saying that it is genocide, and I hope that it will be portrayed and spoken of as such.»

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

The ICC, based in The Hague, tries cases of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide when a country's own courts fail to prosecute.

This is a case of government sanctioned genocide.

Let us look for a moment at clear cases of mass genocide such as Hitler carried out or cases of mass bombings which were carried out by both sides in the second world war and by the Americans in Vietnam.

Others ring bells: Ceausescu along with the aborted trial of former East German leader Erich Honecker, and the Rwandan genocide cases.

@gerrit: There are indeed many similarities to the Irish - vs English case: A different religion of the colonizers; a history including a period of not - genocide - but - not - incredibly - far - from it; and the fact that Irish armed groups never (to my knowledge) targeted Protestants from other countries.

There is a strong case to be made that the IS has been attempting to commit genocide against those who do not meet their definition of religious purity.

Genocide has been called the «crime of crimes» and there is a hesitancy to use it in case it becomes debased by overuse.

Drawing on six case studies, examining the role of ideology in mass killing by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, the Allied powers in their aerial bombardment of Germany and Japan, the terrorist campaigns of Daesh and Al Qaeda, the Rwandan Genocide and the Guatemalan Civil War, the project will develop theoretical and empirical understanding of the role ideology plays in mass killing.

In a worst case scenario, there is always the risk that one of these anti-gay histeria campaigns may lead to outright genocide.

Mass genocide has happened in several cases since the second world war, even if not with the exact features of the Holocaust.

Although international attention has focused primarily on extreme cases of sexual abuse by combatants, such as targeted mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers on gender - based violence are revealing a much wider scope of abuses, perpetrators and victims.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Fact - Based Holocaust Film Chronicles Case of Jewish Resistance in Poland In 2006, Black Book put a provocative new spin on the Holocaust genre by featuring Jews as resistance fighters rather than in the generally - depicted role of passive victims of genocide.

Judgment of International Court of Justice, General List, no. 91, 26 February 2007: case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

61 Judgment of International Court of Justice, General List, no. 91, 26 February 2007: case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro):

In the series, Masha Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot will chat with the New Yorker editor David Remnick, and on Monday Joshua Oppenheimer will screen a director's cut of «The Act of Killing,» his documentary about the mid-1960s Indonesian genocide that, with scenes of perpetrators reenacting their own crimes in full drag, makes the case for camp as a political tool.

Make a case for almost anything short of genocide, but be totally on good behavior or no pie!

Well, I don't think Farnish is calling for genocide, just a transformation of society so radical someone could argue it would result in mass death (alternately, you can make the opposite case that doing nothing is / will have similar consequences — but I don't like either argument).

Based on this film, it would appear the anti-Trumpers have a serious case against the new administration's view of catastrophic climate change on snowmen genocide.

Human Rights Watch has released a book entitled «Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.»

I think this is exactly right, and indeed this is an approach similar to that of the ICJ in the Bosnian Genocide case when it found that the obligation to prevent genocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention implies a (territorially unlimited) obligation of states not to commit genocide theGenocide case when it found that the obligation to prevent genocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention implies a (territorially unlimited) obligation of states not to commit genocide thegenocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention implies a (territorially unlimited) obligation of states not to commit genocide theGenocide Convention implies a (territorially unlimited) obligation of states not to commit genocide thegenocide themselves.

Unlike the ICJ — the principal judicial organ of the United Nations — which hears cases brought by individual States, the ICC tries individuals charged with grave crimes under the Rome Statute, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court hears an incredibly important case called Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, stemming from a federal lawsuit brought under the Alien Tort statute, a remarkable federal law that allows people from countries outside the United States to sue foreign individuals and multinational corporations that commit human rights violations abroad - like torture, crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, disappearances, summary execution, that kind of thing.

This could be the case if such acts consist of direct and public incitement to commit genocide, or hate speech as an underlying act of crime against humanity (if made in conjunction with other acts that severely deprive individuals of their human rights).

Since 2005, she has been a member of a UN mission to Sierra Leone to review the domestic application of international women's human rights norms and has been a Member of Special Mission of the UN and the Rwandan Government to review Rwanda's preparedness to take over the hearing of the 1994 genocide cases.