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Timothy de Swardt / May 27, 2008 9:23 pm
...atest impact will spring from its “secondary functions,” that is, the ways in which the ICC will influence state behavior indirectly. The main impact in this regard will be to increase both the quantity and the quality of war crimes trials. This includes—indeed primarily refers to—war crimes trials not conducted at the ICC. In 1998, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, an umbrella organization of NGOs campaigning for the ICC’s esta...
Farah Tamizuddin / March 27, 2013 1:17 am
...that judges give convicted offenders a minimum length of imprisonment. For example, these laws frequently give nonviolent drug addicts sentences of 15 years to life. Currently, about 500,000 inmates are incarcerated for drug crimes. These lengthy prison terms are coupled with the treatment of many petty crimes – like writing bad checks – as offenses worthy of incarceration. The ludicrously high prison population has beleaguered prisons across th...
Andrew Godinich / October 28, 2011 3:25 pm
...tch? How do we view the dictatorial era itself? Is political and economic stability worth a suspension of human rights? Perhaps one of the most difficult and pertinent questions for modern Latin America is the question of war crimes. Who can be charged with a ‘war crime’? It seems that, in this debate, time does not heal all wounds. This past week, after hours of heated deliberation, Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies voted to overturn an amnes...
Hadi Elzayn / October 17, 2011 1:45 pm
This week, the long captured soldier Gilad Shalit will be released in exchange for nearly 1,000 Palestinian prisoners convicted – in Israeli courts – for list of crimes of varying degrees of violence. While the five-year saga is certainly a relief for his family and perhaps a positive point in the ability of negotiations to bring about results (albeit greatly belated and not exactly game-changing or inspiring), a lot that can be extracted from t...
Joanna Caytas / August 28, 2012 7:10 pm
...ends a mere 37 percent of its revenues in Africa. Aside from their overhead, their main identifiable product is propaganda. Joseph Kony is, of course, a war criminal justly indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Indeed, stopping war criminals while saving children is a noble cause few would oppose. Yet when Kony 2012 aired in Uganda, it caused a flood of spontaneous protests. Various NGOs, with th...
Nadine Mansour / September 7, 2012 7:52 pm
...ith Libyan civil society during the transition period. “Somehow they [Libyans] are really thirsty to get an education,” he said in English. Following NATO’s intervention and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970 referring the crimes in Libya to the ICC, Libya’s revolution has faced a tension surrounding the impending trial of former Qaddafi loyalists. Alsaghayer explained the struggle between Libyan national sovereignty and international powers....
Nadine Mansour / August 2, 2012 11:44 am
...ce through organizations like the UN. Undoubtedly, the UN Security Council requires reform: In response to the impasse in Syria, some have written in support of a measure to prohibit the UNSC from blocking action dealing with crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. I have been hesitant to label the situation in Syria as a civil war, but over time it has become clear that this is indeed the case when the military shoots at its citizens...
Jordan Kalms / August 28, 2012 6:18 pm
...n Luttif got in Napolean Beazley’s way, Beazley shot and killed him. Beazley was 17 at the time of the crime, and in 2002 was lethally injected, making the U.S. one of only a handful of countries to still execute citizens for crimes they committed when they were minors. In 1999 the U.S. executed Sean Sellers for crimes he committed at the age of 16. But it’s not just what we do as Americans, it’s how we do it. When I read that in April, thousands...
Karen Leung / December 2, 2007 4:51 am
...ymour Hersh in his May 2004 New Yorker piece analyzing the classified report by Major General Antonio Taguba, who investigated the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Taguba insisted that “a huge leadership failure” was responsible for the crimes; he uses the words “systematic” and “systemic,” and though the reports have shortcomings, they powerfully deny Bush’s claim that Abu Ghraib was the work of a “few bad apples.” But when journalists said that Abu Ghraib...
Nadine Mansour / June 6, 2012 6:33 pm
...osecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, who held a meeting with the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday. Ocampo urged the UNSC to enforce its arrest warrants for Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir, who is allegedly responsible for war crimes and acts of genocide committed by the Sudanese army and the allied Janjaweed militia against four million civilians. While more heated comments were made, it is this seemingly non-controversial claim that struck me th...
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