Sentences with phrase «including war crimes»

The case established that the ATS provides jurisdiction over tort actions in such «foreign cubed» cases, brought by non-US plaintiffs against non-US defendants for violations of customary international law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed outside the US.
Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

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The extra flights suggest stable growth in U.S. tourism even after the State Department said turf wars between crime gangs were fueling a surge in violence in two Mexican states, including the one where Cancun is located.
Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar.
Throughout the cold war, and now into the newly instigated War on Terrorism, tens of thousands of Americans died - many multiples of the number of those killed on 9/11 - as the direct result of such Jewish / Israeli spying and treason, but not once as anyone ever suggested that the whole Jewish population of America should be held to account for the crimes of those few traitors or for the war - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passporwar, and now into the newly instigated War on Terrorism, tens of thousands of Americans died - many multiples of the number of those killed on 9/11 - as the direct result of such Jewish / Israeli spying and treason, but not once as anyone ever suggested that the whole Jewish population of America should be held to account for the crimes of those few traitors or for the war - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passporWar on Terrorism, tens of thousands of Americans died - many multiples of the number of those killed on 9/11 - as the direct result of such Jewish / Israeli spying and treason, but not once as anyone ever suggested that the whole Jewish population of America should be held to account for the crimes of those few traitors or for the war - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passporwar - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passports.
Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.
They fear Obama because he is smart enough to prosecute the Bush Adm. for War Crimes and every infraction beneath that horrible charge, including the second occurrence of «Super Grand Larceny - on - Steroids» the first occurrence, the state of Texas Savings and Loan fell victim.
This summer, when some 120 nations voted to establish a permanent international criminal court for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. found itself one of only seven countries, including such bedfellows as China and the Sudan, to vote against the new court.
What is your definition of a war crime by a national leader, and how are you not one who is included in that definition?
Things might very well be different, however, with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on April 11 was empowered, on a permanent basis and over strenuous American objections, to try individuals» including sitting heads «of «state» for geno cide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
While there is little doubt Taylor commanded militias that were responsible for some horrific acts of violence in his home country, Liberia, today's judgment will consider the extent to which he should be held responsible for ordering and condoning various war crimes (including murder, sexual violence, and enslavement) committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Recent supports by human rights groups suggest the rebels are guilty of war crimes, including massacres.
His archives include a 2013 article in which Milne suggested that the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby «wasn't terrorism in the normal sense» as well as defences of communist regimes and a suggestion that Slobadon Milosevic shouldn't have been tried for war crimes.
Recall that Amnesty International had accused the Nigerian military and some of its officers, including Badeh, of war crimes since the war against Boko Haram insurgency began and were pilling pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe them.
Today we learn that Milosevic has been indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for being personally responsible for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules of wWar Crimes Tribunal for being personally responsible for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules oCrimes Tribunal for being personally responsible for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules ocrimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules of warwar.
New chapters cover integral equations, which give the basis for the image - restoration methods recently in the news (see «No hiding place: video wars on crime», New Scientist, 8 May), and what the authors call «less - numerical algorithms» including check sums and data compression.
Includes «websites documenting genocide, ethnic strife, war crimes, and human rights violations worldwide.»
The upcoming week's selections include two prime crime melodramas from the fifties, both frenetic dispatches from the height of the cold war: Robert Al...
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Having announced over 1,000 hours of new original programming this year, the first lot of releases includes mysteries, crime thrillers, war and sex documentaries.
Mr. Michôd, whose previous films include «Animal Kingdom,» a gamy crime drama, and «The Rover,» a dusty post-apocalyptic thriller, gestures toward the grim futility of the war on the ground.
Bucky escaped judgment for his crimes (including killing Tony Stark's parents) at the end of Civil War, but he was last seen in that film being put into a kind of cryogenic stasis in Wakanda, with T'Challa telling Steve they'd help him.
Her varied resume of full - length includes a 1987's vampire Western «Near Dark,» 1991's surfer - dude crime caper «Point Break,» 1995 sci - fi thriller «Strange Days» (co-written and produced by ex-husband James Cameron) and Cold War submarine thriller «K - 19: The Widowmaker» starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War online companion to our print book includes a rich multimedia collection of maps, videos, timelines, and teaching strategies that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia, and will challenge students to consider the complex questions this history raises about wartime violence, justice, and memory.
As always, Picoult's research is thorough, wide - ranging and apparent in every paragraph and includes holocaust survivors, concentration camps, mustard gas, baking, death marches, Jewish customs, Polish ghettoes, vampire myths, plant poisons, Nazi hunters, war crimes and gas chambers.
Our broad range of genres includes Crime / Noir, Erotica, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Literary, Military / War, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sci - Fi, Thriller, Travel, and Young Adult.
For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.
The Sleepy Giant team, which consists of long - time Free - To - Play game veterans, has numerous games under its belt, including popular online titles War Rock and Crime Craft.
It starts out with everything from child soldiers to straight - up war crimes torture (including the most Hippocratic Oath violating operation I've ever seen), and then suddenly eases into feature lists like «realistic weather!»
Publications include Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007, German 2012), Wege in der Fremde: Deutsch - jüdische Begegnungsgeschichte zwischen New York, Berlin und Teheran (2012), and Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920 - 1950 (1995); co-edited volumes on Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002) and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009), as well as Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (with M.Edele and S. Fitzpatrick) and The JDC at 100: Essays on the 100th Anniversary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (with A Patt, L. Levi, M. Maud), both forthcoming 2017, and (with Tamar Lewinsky) the chapter on 1945 - 1949 in Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (ed.
This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.
Since then, they have been invoked in an ever - growing array of anti-crime objectives including the war on drugs, to battle the scourge of gun crimes, high - level fraud cases, and in the protection against sexual predators and child pornography.
It could also include planned travel to destinations where there is a significantly increased risk of injury or death from acts of war, terrorism or violent crimes.
Last week, the group named the members of the steering committee that will take up the task of pursuing these war crimes prosecutions, and it includes a number of lawyers and law professors.
A quick glance at the blog's tag cloud shows its popular topics include 9/11 plotters, gun control, Iraq, law schools, war crimes, and the second amendment.
Other matters which often include an extradition elements are MLAs from foreign countries, alleged sanctions breaches and international war crimes.
Acts on highly complex matters, including those involving war crimes and INTERPOL red notices.
Moreover, the United States Criminal Code prohibits both torture and war crimes, the latter which includes torture.
Counsel for the Canadian Council of Refugees made reference to the consequences of a finding of inadmissibility for complicity in the commission of war crimes as including potentially being placed on the «Wanted» list.
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.
The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.
However, Tremeear's also includes the DNA Identification Act, the Firearms Act and the Interpretation Act, while Martin's opts for the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, a statute rarely used in Canada.
«No benefits will be paid due to Injury or death caused by, contributed to by or related to the following and / or their treatments and / or complications thereof: Sickness; Suicide or intentional self - inflicted Injury or poisoning; War, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.&raqWar, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.&raqwar, declared or undeclared or terrorism.»
In addition, domestic courts also have jurisdiction over similar facts, including under the principle of universality, at least when they amount to crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes.
SALEM, Ore. (AP)-- Federal authorities on Wednesday began legal proceedings to strip U.S. citizenship from two Bosnians, including one living in Oregon, for war crimes including executing civilians...
Chris has spent over a decade working with diverse communities suffering from high incidents of trauma, including five years with an organization launched out of Amnesty International that provided legal and psychosocial services to victims of torture and war crimes from over 20 countries.
Members include professionals who work with victims of crime, abuse, neglect, family or community violence, exploitation, or oppression; Holocaust survivors; refugees; torture victims; war veterans; survivors of disasters; and persons in high - risk occupations.
Laurie Grengs is a highly qualified and empathic licensed therapist who has dedicated her career to helping individuals who are healing from all types of traumatic events, including car accidents, the death of a loved one, violent crimes, domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abuse or neglect, natural disasters or PTSD after war.
Exposure to community violence (6 screeners asked whether the child had been exposed to certain types of crime and violence, including witnessing an assault, experiencing a household theft, having someone close murdered, witnessing a murder, experiencing a riot, or being in a war zone)
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