Sentences with phrase «war against crime»

Batman has been an incorruptible symbol for Gotham and remains unwavering in his war against crime for the last 75 years.

Lantern - jawed Brolin stars as a heroic detective in post-war Los Angeles assigned by his superior (Nick Nolte) to assemble a group of incorruptible badasses to wage war against the crime empire of Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn as a sneering heavy with the coiled body language of the boxer he once was, and a heart of pure evil.

Overall an intense, enthralling, violent and realistic look at the good, the bad and the immoral in the war against crime.

We tend not to recognize, however, the amount of violence the national government is exercising in the war against crime and the war against drugs.

Not exact matches

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo war.

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.

Praljak was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, nearly half of which had already been served after he surrendered to the tribunal in 2004.

International Trump says launching «largest - ever» package of sanctions against North Korea, Reuters UN identifies South Sudan military officers accused of war crimes, The Guardian

I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment of refugees, prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.

However, thanks to BitFury this is quite a start against the war against Bitcoin funded crime.

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

Google «Pat Robertson Rios Montt» to see his relationship with this Guatemalian ex-leader convicted of war crimes and genocide against the Mayans.

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

Both, by the way, are considered war crimes if not crimes against humanity by the UN.

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.

They supported war crimes in Yugoslavia against Serbs and Communists.

The «fascination» of Islam is it's legitimation of evil deeds as good deeds (for example the Koran requires Muslims countries to conduct aggressive war against Jewish and Christian countries, which is a heavy crime).

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

Prince Johnson - once a rebel commander in Liberia's civil war, and a man accused of crimes against humanity - says he has found God.

Update (Mar. 15): The US House of Representatives has unanimously voted 393 — 0 to declare the actions of ISIS against Middle Eastern Christians (and other minorities) officially «war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.»

Tribes made war against one another all across America for everything from territory disputes to crimes committed and even generational grudges.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

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.

In some sense to render it «do not murder» rather than «do not kill» is more accurate, for it does not seem, originally at least, to have ruled out killing in a war or execution by the proper authorities for some serious crime against the community.

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

In light of the human rights standards — rights that have received almost unanimous acceptance from the UN member states — it is becoming obvious to the average person that planning a nuclear war against a neighboring country is a horrendous crime against all humanity.

Did Israel commit war crimes and other human rights violations against the Palestinians in Gaza?

Boko Haram continues to commit war crimes by wilfully destroying churches and pursing a relentless campaign of religious cleansing against Christian communities in southern Borno.

Eighth, the United States punishes the «crimes of the poor» by waging a criminal war against the poor.

Radovan Karadzic was finally captured on 7/23/08 and is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war - charges related to the 1992 - 1995 civil war that followed Bosnia - Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.

As we have seen in the case of Frederick II, the reasons that kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state were several and profound.

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.

Indeed, Uday, along with his brother, Qusay, top a list of Iraqi officials who the Bush Administration has said will be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity after an American - led attack on Iraq, according to published reports.

A contemplative and soulful tune about the malaise at the beginning of the seventies, it protested against crime and the Vietnam War.

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.

First, States accepted the responsibility to protect their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

After a long and expensive trial, the Special Court for Sierra Leone will finally give its verdict on whether former Liberian president Charles Taylor is guilty or innocent of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Together, this combination offers hopes of real progress in setting limits to crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes.

The UN then leveled allegations of usage of chemical weapons against him, which is a violation of the Hague Conventions and a war crime.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

A 2005 UN agreement on the R2P resolved these concerns by avoiding any legal obligations, defining R2P as a «UN responsibility to protect» and subject to negotiations within the UN Security Council, and narrowing the focus of the R2P to four specific crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing or mass atrocities.

Are there any documents which definitively show the same strategy being used to provide a defense against allegations of war crimes in other conflicts?

But when the issue transcends petty political rascality, and becomes a vicious war to roll back gains against corruption, corruption that has, for too long, under - developed the people, resulting in mass anguish and pains, then it is nothing but capital crime of political hue: one side must die for the other to prevail.

Over the last year, the UK government has encouraged the UN Security Council to create an international investigative team to support Iraq in gathering evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

As elected president, he founded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), with the volcanic Nuhu Ribadu as first chairman, thus mainstreaming the War Against Corruption; as well as the ICPC, to lesser applause.

Kazeem, who addressed the media alongside senior officials of the Ministry, said Governor Ambode had been at the vanguard of the war against domestic, sexual and violent crimes, and that the centre was geared towards vigorous justice sector reforms.

Greens call for an end to the Bush - Obama post-9 / 11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power

Germany and Japan both committed horrific crimes against humanity in the lead up to, and during world war II.