Crimes Against Humanity

Why is This Generation Different From All Other Generations?

Michelle E. Goldberg | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: The Holocaust, Memory, History, Jewish History, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Crimes Against Humanity, Elie Weisel, College News
Michelle E. Goldberg

My plight is different than that of my mother's, the daughter of the survivor. I am part of an emerging group. I am a third generation Holocaust survivor.

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Kony Baloney: Why Invisible Children's Critics Are Wrong

Chris Manthey | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Invisible Children, Africa, Kony, Kony 2012, Joseph Kony, Crimes Against Humanity, International Crime, World News
Chris Manthey

I assume people have already tried stopping Kony with a boilerplate approach. But since he's still out there 26 years later, we know that didn't work.

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Appeal to the U.N.: Treat the Financial Crisis as Human RIghts Disaster

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Crimes Against Humanity, Human Rights, Financial Reforms, Shoshana Zuboff, United Nations, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Business News
Danny Schechter

I will be in Geneva next week making the case for the financial crisis as a crime against humanity, an international offense that the U.N. was set up to prevent and now even prosecutes, however sparingly, in the International Criminal Court.

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Holding Iran's Supreme Leader Accountable

Reza Pahlavi | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Islamic Republic of Iran, Human Rights, Iran Protests, Ali Khamenei, Reza Pahlavi, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran Protests 2009, Iran Nuclear Program, Crimes Against Humanity, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Reza Pahlavi

It is my sincere hope that whatever political motivations have previously guided nations in the past vis-à-vis Iran, they will do what is clearly right and side with the people of Iran by voting to refer this case to the International Criminal Court at once.

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Dalai Lama Advisor, Blake Kerr, Testifies in Trial Accusing Chinese of Genocide in Tibet

Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Abortion, India, Sterilization, Dalai Lama, Dartmouth College, Nepal, Li-Peng, Sag Harbor, Tibet, Jokhang Temple, Infanticide, Crimes Against Humanity, Blake Kerr, Human Rights, Madrid, Universal Jurisdiction, Karma, Genocide, Spanish National Court, Chinese Government, Jiang Zemin, Mt. Everest, Buddhist Monks, Lhasa, World News
Robbie Vorhaus

As a tourist in Lhasa 24 years ago, Blake Kerr witnessed Chinese soldiers and police massacring unarmed Tibetans, inspiring him to begin documenting the underside of China's military occupation of Tibet.

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The Prophet Is Dead: Juche and the Future of North Korea

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Dprk, Ussr, Kim Jong Il, Crimes Against Humanity, The Juche Idea, Religion, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, North Korea Nuclear Program, Revolution, Kim Il Sung, Humanitarian Crisis, Religion and Politics, Socialism, North Korea, Soviet Union, Religion News
Amarnath Amarasingam

Little has been written about North Korea's driving state ideology - the "Juche idea" - and the clues it may hold for predicting the nature of post-Kim Jong Il North Korea

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Syria: 'Shoot to Kill' Commanders Named

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Syria, Crimes Against Humanity, Icc, Human Rights, Security Council, Bashar Al-Assad, Video, World News
Human Rights Watch

Security Council Should Refer Syria to ICC for Crimes Against Humanity (London) – Former Syrian soldiers identified by name 74 commanders a...

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Laurent Gbagbo Charged With Crimes Against Humanity

AP | MIKE CORDER and LAURA BURKE | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Omar Al-Bashir, Video, Laurent Gbagbo, Laurent Gbagbo Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, Icc, Moammar Gadhafi, Ivory Coast, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court Wednesday to fac...

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Mike Sacks

Supreme Court To Rule On Corporate Personhood For Crimes Against Humanity

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Video, Corporate Personhood, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to hear a case over whether corporations can be sued in federal courts for human rights viola...

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Time for New Approach to Burma: War Crimes Mounting

Matthew Smith | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, War Crimes, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Myanmar, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, War, Burma, UN General Assembly, Forced Labor, Crimes Against Humanity, World News
Matthew Smith

Last week, human rights groups released a damning report documenting how ordinary Burmese convicts are brutally forced by the state to carry heavy munitions and supplies for the Burma Army, acting as human shields.

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Syria: Killings, Torture in a Locked-Down City Under Siege

Human Rights Watch | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Syria, Arab Spring, Human Rights, Crimes Against Humanity, Daraa, World News
Human Rights Watch

Dispatches from Daraa by Nadim Houry, senior Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch Syrian authorities have tried to keep the world from getting imag...

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Stopping Enablers of Mass Atrocities in Sudan

Human Rights First | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Darfur, Stop Arms to Sudan, Enablers, Sudan, Human Rights First, Atrocities, China, Crimes Against Humanity, World News
Human Rights First

If China is genuinely interested in "regional peace and security," as it asserts, it should immediately suspend its financial, material, and practical support to Khartoum

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Preserving Auschwitz: A Responsibility to our Children

Jacek Kastelaniec | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nazi, Holocaust, Human Rights, Nazis, Genocide, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Crimes Against Humanity, Impact News
Jacek Kastelaniec

We, the remaining survivors of Auschwitz and the keepers of its memory, urge you to help preserve the physical evidence of Auschwitz and raise awareness to prevent future acts of hatred.

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UN Remembers Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Shoah, Jews, Women, Human Rights, Nazi, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Genocide, United Nations, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, World War II, Crimes Against Humanity, Video, World News
Kiyotaka Akasaka

As men were deported during the Holocaust, traditional gender roles changed, placing greater responsibilities upon women in the family and community in the ghettos and often making the difference between life and death in the camps.

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Prosecuting Nazis in the 21st Century

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Adolf Eichmann, Nazism, Auschwitz, Nazis, Concentration Camp, Crimes Against Humanity, World News
Katie Engelhart

We need to decide how much decades-old justice can be served in the courtroom. Not just because of the Nazis; they'll all be dead soon. But because the way we deal with crimes of war depends on it.

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It's Time to Make the Darfur Arms Embargo Mean Something

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stop Arms to Sudan, Enablers, Darfur, United Nations, Sudan, Arms Embargo, China, Un Sanctions, Crimes Against Humanity, World News
Human Rights First

By Julia Fromholz, Director, Crimes Against Humanity Program Every autumn since 2006, the UN's Panel of Experts on Sudan--a group of experts on arms,...

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Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery

Eric Kasum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Peace, Native Americans, Peace, History, Slaves, American History, Slavery, The New World, Knights of Columbus, Holidays, American Indians, 1492, Christopher Columbus, Eric Kasum, Crimes Against Humanity, Roman Catholic Church, Columbus Day, Peacedog, Politics News
Eric Kasum

Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?

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Is the Obama Administration Guilty of a War Crime?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Military Commissions, Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Material Support, Terrorism, President Obama, Obama Administration, Conspiracy, Rules of Engagement, Omar Khadr, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, World News
Daphne Eviatar

A new paper published today by an expert on international law and the laws of armed conflict, argues that the military commission trial of Omar Khadr is itself a war crime.

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Armenian-Americans File Multi-Billion Dollar Lawsuit Against Turkey

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkish Museums, Turkish Airlines, Judges, Turkish Treasury, World Court, Republic of Turkey, European-Court-of-Human-Rights, Federal Court, Armenian Genocide, Los Angeles, Armenian-Americans, Crimes Against Humanity, New York City, Armenia-Turkey Protocols, Adana, Icj, European Council, World War I, Presidential Palace, Central Bank of Turkey, Mark Geragos, Armenian Bar Association, Banks, Insurance Comanies, Tourism, Justice, Ziraat Bank, Brian Kabateck, Ottoman Empire, Incirlik, Aintab, World News
Harut Sassounian

After seeking genocide recognition for almost a century, Armenian-Americans will now devote their energy to pursue all legal avenues in order to recoup their massive losses and regain their historic rights.

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Naomi Campbell, Blood Diamonds, and the Big Picture

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Taylor, Naomi Campbell, Sierra Leone, Mass-Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, Blood Diamonds, World News
Human Rights First

Diamonds may prove not to be a girl's best friend later this month as the model Naomi Campbell travels to the The Hague to testify at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone.

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Kashmir: Bullets for Books and Stones, Continued Crimes Against Humanity By The World's Largest Democracy

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, India, South Asia, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, United Nations, Amnesty International, Taliban, Zerobridge, Peace, Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, Kashmir, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, Muslim, World News
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

Kashmiris believe in democracy and civil society and that is why they continue to carry out civil protests amidst the bullets and batons of brutal of state security apparatuses.

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The ICC and Afghanistan: A Moment of Opportunity for Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, U.S. Troops, Afghanistan, Nato, Taliban, Development, Justice, Crimes Against Humanity, Afghanistan War, International Criminal Court, Torture, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, World News
Rahim Kanani

The standing and status of the ICC is tested in a country like Afghanistan. Opening up a formal investigation will impeach international troops, including non-parties to the Rome Statute, like the United States.

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Rescuing the International Criminal Court

Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Uganda, Icc, World News, Louise Arbour, Darfur, Moreno Ocampo, Sudan, Crimes Against Humanity, International Criminal Court, Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, World News
Doug Sarro

The fact that the International Criminal Court has survived this long is something of a miracle, given George W. Bush's hostility towards it. Unfortunately, this is its only notable achievement.

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The Fundamentals of Radical, Transnational Counterinsurgency

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tamil Tigers, War Crimes, Ann Marlowe, Strategy, Anti-War, Tactics, Coin, Rethink Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, War, Violence, Afghanistan, Crimes Against Humanity, Counterinsurgency, Politics News
Josh Mull

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Justice Denied in Africa

Reed Brody | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Human Rights, Chad, Africa, Hissene Habre, Senegal, Crimes Against Humanity, Torture, World News
Reed Brody

A fair trial for Hissene Habré would strike a blow against the cycle of impunity in which leaders brutalize their countries, pillage their treasuries and then eventually move next door to join their bank accounts.

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