Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute
The term ‘crimes against humanity’ has been widely used by different people to mean different things.The media has referred the term to include a variety of contemporary political events that they have reported on. The media practitioners and social workers have used the term loosely to refer to sit...
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| description | The term ‘crimes against humanity’ has been widely used by different people to mean different things.The media has referred the term to include a variety of contemporary political events that they have reported on. The media practitioners and social workers have used the term loosely to refer to situations where the governments or any other people holding power, authority or influence have done any wrong. Politicians and political scientists deploy the term while referring to unacceptable and unfair activities in the political field. To International law scholars, the term has been used to refer to a specific crime under international criminal law, as distinguished from Genocide and War Crimes. This paper traces how crimes against humanity as a category of international crimes emerged and its essential requirements and how courts and institutions have developed and interpreted it, since the term crimes against humanity has acquired both a legal as well as socio-political perspective. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-56272023-05-05T14:57:51Z Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute Brian Dube Faculty of Law, Department of Public Law, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. Crimes against humanity, political violence, political violence hostis humani generis The term ‘crimes against humanity’ has been widely used by different people to mean different things.The media has referred the term to include a variety of contemporary political events that they have reported on. The media practitioners and social workers have used the term loosely to refer to situations where the governments or any other people holding power, authority or influence have done any wrong. Politicians and political scientists deploy the term while referring to unacceptable and unfair activities in the political field. To International law scholars, the term has been used to refer to a specific crime under international criminal law, as distinguished from Genocide and War Crimes. This paper traces how crimes against humanity as a category of international crimes emerged and its essential requirements and how courts and institutions have developed and interpreted it, since the term crimes against humanity has acquired both a legal as well as socio-political perspective. 9 5 181 189 2023-05-05T14:57:50Z 2023-05-05T14:57:50Z 2015-05 research article https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5627 10.5897/AJPSIR2015.0742 en African Journal of Political Science and International Relations 1996-0832 open Academic Journals (A J) |
| spellingShingle | Crimes against humanity, political violence, political violence hostis humani generis Brian Dube Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title | Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title_full | Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title_short | Understanding the content of crimes against humanity: Tracing its historical evolution from the Nuremberg Charter to the Rome Statute |
| title_sort | understanding the content of crimes against humanity: tracing its historical evolution from the nuremberg charter to the rome statute |
| topic | Crimes against humanity, political violence, political violence hostis humani generis |
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