Sentences with phrase «international war criminal»

Okay, so it might be just a little easier to convince people to take action against an international war criminal, but your law firm should be able to tell potential clients why they need to hire an attorney now.

As such the Pope can declare war on any country, but he possibly would be considered an international war criminal in that case.

Not exact matches

The International Criminal Court has said US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan through the «cruel or violent» interrogation of detainees, mostly from 2003 to 2004.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Contrary to the international community's preference for prosecution, other conflicts teach the lesson that replacing dictatorships and civil wars with democracy and a stable peace sometimes requires compromising with dictators and war criminals.

The ICC is the International Criminal Court, created in 1998 to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Rehabilitation here means not that of individual criminals but of entire societies that have suffered war or dictatorship, as when supporters of international tribunals describe punishment as «overcoming a culture of impunity.»

Patterned after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and then the international tribunals created for Rwanda and Yugoslavia earlier in the 1990s, it is the most ambitious expression of the international community's answer to the questions yielded by massive past injustices.

CNN: Desmond Tutu says Blair, Bush should be «made to answer» for Iraq South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Sunday that Tony Blair and George W. Bush should be «made to answer» at the International Criminal Court for their actions around the Iraq war.

Would the existence of a permanent international criminal court deter violations of the laws of war, or would it prolong conflict?

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.

There is no guarantee that overt struggle can be avoided, but it is criminal to make civil, class or international war the more likely by confusing issues and by arousing the passions which religious fervor can awaken.

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.

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.

No, if he does so, he would be a war criminal on international scale who could be tried in another country or by a special international tribunal.

Sudan's president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Fortunately, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has enough gaol rooms for war criminals.

He also made a thinly - veiled call for Blair to face war crime charges as he called on Britain to support moves to give the International Criminal Court «the power to prosecute those responsible for the crime of military aggression».

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

President Al - Bashir was declared wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2009 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur from 2003 to 2008.

The legal power of these international conventions is enforced in Russian Federation by the article 236 of the Criminal code «Using prohibited means and methods of waging war» with the penalty up to 20 years in prison.

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), two foes forced to put aside their differences, to team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, bent on creating nuclear weapons with the goal of world domination.

There's an arbitrary and absurd deadline: If Kincaid can't make it to the International Criminal Court before 5 p.m., Dukhovich will be set free — which seems like an unconscionably short statute of limitations for war crimes» — LL

A graduate student gets caught in an international conspiracy involving diamonds, exiled Nazi war criminals and a rogue government agent.

The Debt (R for violence and profanity) International espionage thriller, set in 1997, about three former Mossad Agents (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Ciaran Hinds) who come out of retirement to track down a Nazi war criminal (Jesper Christensen) back on the loose after already being apprehended by them 35 years earlier.

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

It is therefore not surprising thatOHCHR, after a thorough inquiry, came to the conclusion that the above - mentioned barbaric acts against refugees constituted war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly crimes of genocide, subject to confirmation by a competent international criminal court or tribunal.34 So far, no charge has been brought forward.

He is quickly talked into a new job as a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a war crimes tribunal.

His research focuses on the relations between law and sound, with a particular emphasis on international criminal law and the law of war.

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Taylor is now in detention at the International Criminal Court, where he faces trial for various war crimes.

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.»

It was the first international criminal tribunal since the ones that followed World War II.

His 50 - year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organisations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.

As the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court made clear in relation to allegations of war crimes violations on the part of the United States in Iraq, the threshold of whether civilian casulaties are «clearly excessive» to the military advantage to be gained is a high one, the mere «death of civilians during an armed conflict, no matter how grave and regrettable, does not in itself constitute a war crime».

The gallows has yet to be built on the Andover, Mass., town common, but this weekend brings to that bucolic town an international array of lawyers, academics and authors for the Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals.

What the International Criminal Court (ICC) was able to conclude was that the Darfur situation did consist of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Nicholas has the unique combination of 25 years experience sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division and appearing as lead defence counsel in a major war crimes trial before the International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia from 2004 to 2006.

After law school, Harris was a law clerk at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia where he worked on the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia, for attempted genocide and other war crimes.

The rational debate considers what measures are needed to track and, if necessary, take action when Canadians head overseas to join up with a group like Islamic State, thus almost inevitably becoming implicated in such international crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and nationally criminal acts of terrorism.

The trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg was a landmark event in the development of modern international law, and continues to be highly influential in our understanding of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.

When on 1 December 2014 the Appeals Chamber upheld the decision of Trial Chamber I to condemn Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to 14 years of imprisonment for the enlistment and conscription of children under the age of 15, the Congolese warlord, who had already gone down in history as the first person transferred to the International Criminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the internatioInternational Criminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the international tCriminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the international tcriminal to serve a final sentence given by the internationalinternational tribunal.

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If a small number of robbers can not be brought to the bar of international justice, the war criminals of the world have little to worry about.

From 17 July 2018, the International Criminal Court will be able to hold leaders individually criminally responsible for waging aggressive war - with conditions.

As of this time, several banks have admitted to entering into criminal conspiracies with Iran to provide the country with billions of dollars in violation of U.S. and international laws, all while knowing Iran was a «State Sponsor of Terrorism» and a leading source of American injuries and casualties in the Iraq War and Afghanistan.

By s 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICCA 2001) the UK has made genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or reCriminal Court Act 2001 (ICCA 2001) the UK has made genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or recriminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or residents.

Well, we can't all be international criminals who get explosive injected into our necks and sent to die fighting secret wars, but we can have their style on our home screens.