Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

The United Nations defined the term genocide in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which was released in 1948. The statement said that: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring…

victims of injustice for hundreds of years, but in Pakistan there is a particular form of torture that stands out amongst them all. Stoning is a form of capital punishment known to Pakistan, where a group of people throw stones at a man or women until he or she dies. Unfortunately, women are more often subjected to this form of punishment than men because of their status in society. Stoning is considered a form of execution by torture because it is a lot slower than other forms of execution.…

for their roles in the Cambodian genocide, Kang Kek Iew, the overseer of S-21, Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge, and Khieu Samphan, Cambodia’s head of state from 1976 until 1979, all of whom are serving life sentences. Is this truly justice? The fact that only three individuals have been sentenced for the deaths of between 1.7 million and 2.5 million Cambodians, really able to serve any type of justice towards the victims and survivors of the genocide, it’s just like the Nazi…

During the early 1970’s, the world was undergoing a radically quick change. Social groups and human rights activists were propped up and inspired across the world. Almost instantaneously human rights became a predominant ideology that influenced political systems in America, Latin America, and the Soviet Union and its Satellite Nations. Many human rights activists sought to establish sovereign nation states that strayed away from colonial rule, therefore resulting in the rights for citizenship.…

happened between 1941 and 1945 (USHMM. “Timeline of Events.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Source i). Around 6 million Jews were murdered and about 17 million people overall. This was a horrific period in history. The holocaust was truly a crime against humanity. It killed millions of people and affected even more lives. Before 1933, World War 1 devastated Europe. Germany had built up resentment after the war’s peace settlement and the Treaty of Versailles. Adolf Hitler, like…

When President Clinton was elected, foreign policy was not something that he was expecting to be employing. Frankly, it was not something that he was at all prepared to do. On inauguration day, he was 46 years old, making him the third-youngest person to hold the oval office. His prior political experience was time as a governor and as the Attorney General for the state. The United States has just finished the Gulf War. He was elected on campaign promises that focused on fixing domestic issues.…