Essays about: "Grave Crimes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Grave Crimes.

  1. 1. Fact-Finding Online – A Fair Trial Offline?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Disa Janfalk; [2021]
    Keywords : Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces massive evidentiary problems due to flawed state-cooperation, limited access to sites of atrocity and an insufficient budget. Meanwhile, potentially relevant digital open-source information abounds, as citizens increasingly turn to social media to spread awareness of human rights violations and possible international crimes. READ MORE

  3. 2. UN Transitional Administrations: enjoying immunity or impunity? : A legal study on UN Transitional Administrations and their post-colonial impact on victims’ access to justice

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Viktoria Tomsson; [2021]
    Keywords : UN Transitional Administration; UN Peacekeeping forces; UN Peacekeepers; Postcolonialism; War crimes; Immunity; Victim s rights; FN:s fredsbevarande styrkor; FN-soldater; postkolonialism; Brott mot mänskligheten; Immunitet; Brottsoffers rättigheter;

    Abstract : United Nations peacekeeping forces and operations, have long had a history of crimes against civilians by its personnel, not least concerning crimes of sexual exploitation and abuse. While human rights violations are grave despite their origin, there is a specific element of impunity and distrust when the same people who comes to ‘protect’, are the same people who become perpetrators. READ MORE

  4. 3. Responsibility to Protect and International Law - The Case of the Rohingya

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Alice Ribbenvik; [2020]
    Keywords : Public international law; responsibility to protect; Rohingya; Myanmar; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Rohingya-muslimerna i Myanmar har utsatts för diskriminering och förtryck i många decennier. Sedan 2012 har våldet i Myanmar eskalerat till vad många menar är folkmord. De påstådda brotten har fått uppmärksamhet i det internationella samfundet och särskilt inom området internationella mänskliga rättigheter. READ MORE

  5. 4. When we see something that is well beyond our understanding : The duty of States to investigate war crimes and how it applies to autonomous weapons systems

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Conrad Palmcrantz; [2019]
    Keywords : lethal autonomous weapons; machine learning; grave breaches; accountability; command responsibility;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses States’ duty to investigate grave breaches of humanitarian law and how it applies to deep reinforcement learning autonomous weapons. It identifies basic technologic intricacies related to deep reinforcement learning and discusses what issues may arise if such software is used in weapons systems. READ MORE

  6. 5. Corporate Criminal Liability in International Criminal Law "ex nihilo nihil fit"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Armina Savanovic; [2017]
    Keywords : Corporate Criminal Liability; Criminal Law; International Criminal Law; STL; ICC; ICTY; ICTR; Jurisdiction; Universal Jurisdiction; Sanctions for Legal Persons; International Human Rights Law; Human Rights; Atrocity Crimes; Genocide; Crimes Against Humanity; Grave Crimes; Theory of Identification; Vicarious Liability; Corporate Complicity; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Nuremberg Charter introduced corporate criminal liability into international law and the great American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a promise that any legal person who commits crimes prescribed by international law shall be prosecuted and punished according to international criminal law. However, during this period of time, a corporation was never prosecuted per se as the sitting judges did not seem to have the will to dwell on the establishment of the elements of crime that needed to be satisfied in order to impute criminal liability on a corporate body. READ MORE