ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Murder 2, International Criminal Court, Peremptory Norm

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Includes customary and conventional international legal obligations to respect or protect speci c rights of natural persons. Presence of armed con ict is not necessary. Are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation gf human being. Widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population. Icty and crime against humanity article 5: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation. 5: torture, rape, persecutions on political, racial, and religious grounds. In the present convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, such as. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Deliberately in icting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.