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Erga omnes obligations attach when there is a serious breach of peremptory norms of international law like those against piracy, genocide and wars of aggression. [2] [3] The concept was recognized in the International Court of Justice's decision in the Barcelona Traction case [4] [(Belgium v Spain) (Second Phase) ICJ Rep 1970 3 at paragraph 33]:
The convention is modelled heavily on the United Nations Convention Against Torture. "Enforced disappearance" is defined in Article 2 of the Convention as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge ...
[13] [14] This ruling was a reiteration of a decision made a year earlier by the International Court of Justice on 14 February 2002. [15] Following these ruling in June 2003 the Belgian Justice Ministry decided to start a procedure to transfer the case to Israel. [16] Bolivia: Article 138 of the Código Penal. [17] Bosnia and Herzegovina
On 1 March 2024, Nicaragua instituted proceedings against Germany at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under, inter alia, the Genocide Convention, concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in Respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory arising from Germany's support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war.
On 8 June 2023, the governments of Canada and The Netherlands brought a case against Syria before the International Court of Justice accusing the Syrian Government of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment of its own population beginning at least in 2011 [1] [2] [3] (when the Syrian civil war began), and of failing to fulfill its obligations regarding the ...
Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to prosecute individuals for serious crimes, such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, regardless of where the crime was committed and irrespective of the accused's nationality or residence.
Tren de Aragua's presence in Aurora is 'limited' After Aurora police announced the arrest of 10 alleged members of the Tren de Aragua in September, following Trump's comments, Mayor Mike Coffman ...
Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Company, Ltd was a corporation incorporated in Canada, with Toronto headquarters, that made and supplied electricity in Spain.It had issued bonds to non-Spanish investors, but during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), the Spanish government refused to allow BTLP to transfer currency to pay bondholders the interest that they were due.