Sentences with phrase «crimes under international law»

Hamdan could not be charged for actions which were not crimes under international law while he had committed them.

The court was asked whether military commissions could hear charges that weren't defined as war crimes under international law when the defendant was accused of committing them.

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide describes genocide as «a crime under international law» which signatories, including the United States, should «prevent and to punish.»

Aggression is not a war crime but it is a crime under international law (as the House of Lords admitted in R v Jones (Margaret)-RRB-.

It would be a crime under international law.

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Wray served in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush and currently works on white - collar crime at an international law firm.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Their human rights must be respected and upheld, as guarantee under the Peruvian Political Constitution, the precautionary measures granted by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on May 5, 2014, the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and as supported by the latest determination of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalInternational Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute company executives, politicians and other individuals under international law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmentalinternational law for crimes linked to land grabbing and environmental destruction.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

It held it was bound by the unanimous House of Lords «decision in R v Jones (Margaret)[2007] 1 AC 136, in the context of the invasion of Iraq, that although there was a crime of aggression under customary international law, there was no such crime as the crime of aggression under the law of England and Wales.

It will have no impact on Canada's ability to deny refugee status to those who have actually been involved in serious international crimes or on Canada's ability to prosecute them under criminal law.

A country that is at war with another country is permitted under international law to detain nationals of the country that they are at war with, without any individualized suspicion, out of fear that they will commit unspecified acts of war against the detaining country, which would also amount to crimes.

Applying this law to our relevant factual scenarios, it seems that assistance to the election of an individual who turns out to be a perpetrator of international crimes, by means involving the use of social media, could potentially amount to instigation or aiding and abetting under CIL and Article 25 (3)(b) and (c) of the Rome Statute, or to the residual mode of liability under Article 25 (3)(d) of the Statute.

In conclusion, the use of social media to manipulate elections and to provide other types of assistance to international crimes can potentially give rise to individual criminal responsibility under international law.

(10) A violation of this section may subject the party committing the violation to civil or criminal penalties or a federal or state warrant under federal or state laws, including the International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act, and may subject the violating parent to apprehension by a law enforcement officer.