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crime against humanity

noun

  1. a crime or series of crimes, such as genocide, directed against a large group because of religion, ethnicity, country of origin, or other reason unconnected with any individual's responsibility for having committed a criminal act.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of crime against humanity1

First recorded in 1940–45
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"But we have also unintentionally given a wrong message, which is that a crime against humanity can be committed without consequence," he says.

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It concludes that women and girls have died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth due to conditions imposed by the Israeli authorities which have denied access to reproductive health care, and says they amount to the crime against humanity of extermination.

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Shortly before he landed in the Netherlands, the 79-year-old unapologetically defended his bloody "war on drugs" for which the ICC says there are "reasonable grounds" to charge him with murder as a crime against humanity.

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A statement endorsing the plan stressed "the categorical rejection of any form of displacement of the Palestinian people", describing such an idea as "a gross violation of international law, a crime against humanity and ethnic cleansing".

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Siobhan described the bombing as "a crime against humanity" which had destroyed the "simple, quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family".

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