Mass Rape Research

Crimes against the international community are a collection of offences that are recognised by the international community as being of universal concern. However the prosecution of crimes against the international community can be controversial. Such crimes may be committed in the context of military conflict. They may be highly politically motivated, or they may have been ordered or committed by the state itself. The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002 was a significant development in the law of crimes against the international community. The independent international court established by the Rome Statute, acts as a last resort for crimes fitting into the three categories of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Due to Australia’s Dualistic system, both the War crimes Act

Rape culture extends across the globe. In 2012, a group of men gang-raped a young woman and assaulted her friend aboard a moving bus in New Delhi, India. The crime was horrific. And yet, there were some within the country who chose to blame the victims instead of the perpetrators. Asaram Bapu, a self-realized saint from India with approximately 40 million disciples said, “The victim’s daughter is as guilty as her rapists…She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop…This could have saved her dignity and life. Can you clap with one hand? I don’t think so” (Herald). Then in 1995, during the Bosnian War and the Bosnian genocide, the violence assumed a gender-targeted form through the use of rape. It is estimated that 50,000 women were raped. A year prior during the Rwandan genocide, known as the 100-day genocide, it is estimated that 500,000 women were raped. During the times when these genocides were taking place, rape and sexual violence was seen as just another part of war, but not seen as a crime. Thousands and thousands of women were raped and will never obtain the justice they deserve for their perpetrators’

     The world organization that concerns itself with issues parallel to genocide is the Commission on Human Rights. It is the commission’s duty to meet once a genocidal act occurred and was reported. Then the commission must develop different ways to mend the problem at task in a fair and just way. By doing so, the commission helps to fix this human right’s issue with the seven treaties.

The Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against its minority Armenian population from 1915-1917 left an estimated 1.5 million dead and to date, not one individual has been tried for these egregious crimes. The mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in World War I and Jews by the Nazis in World War II shocked the conscience of the international community and led to the creation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), in order to hold the perpetrators of crimes of this magnitude accountable. In its preamble, the UN charter sets the objective to "establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained". The genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire and Nazis made it clear that an international standard must be set in order to protect the rights of individuals. The UN has attempted to establish international law with the creation of the CPPCG and other resolutions, however, these resolutions are simply words on paper unless they are properly enforced. In this essay I will be examining whether the United Nations have been successful in its enforcement international law, specifically the CPPCG.

Today’s society is full of insane and demented human beings who don’t seem to know right from wrong. A lot of people suffer because of this, especially college students. Simple assault, abduction, and rape are three crimes that have been on the rise throughout college campuses all over the United States. From 2008 to 2012 forcible rape increased by forty-nine percent in four-year colleges. It jumped from 2,370 to 3,621 in a matter of four years (Shapiro). We as individuals have the ability to help keep ourselves safe from these kinds of people. We are provided with a variety of resources and information including forms of personal protection, body strength, and safety in numbers. The problem is we are not utilizing these to the best of our ability. I know we all think that we are invincible and nothing terrible could happen to us, but the reality is, it can.

The International Criminal Court (ICC), created in 1998 (Thayer and Ibryamova 2010), is responsible for investigating and prosecuting the most extreme cases, including crimes against humanity, aggressive crimes, war crimes, and genocide. The credibility of this institution, however, has been compromised due to the United States revocation of support and membership. Initially it is important to recognize the arguments against the United States becoming a member state of the ICC and what precipitated the U.S. withdrawing its signature from the document that instituted the Court. Once this has been established, addressing and refuting these objections will develop the arguments in favor of ICC membership. Finally, this analysis will lead to

A law student of Oxford wrote an article named Procedural Fairness During Police Interrogation and the Right of Silence. This article starts with “ The historical record of the protection of the right of suspects to keep silence in face of police questioning.” This is stating that the suspect does not have to answer any questions the police asks. This could be a situation the suspect may be in that he wants the lawyer with him but the police say he has to answer when he does not. The Oxford student said “The arguments in advanced support of the privilege tend to confer to subject protection from police manipulation and misconduct.” what this student means by this is that is that the subject should have protection of the police manipulation but in some cases like Steven Avery’s which he did not get any protection and got manipulated into answering questions which made him seem guilty; but after he spent years behind bars they examined the DNA test and the results pointed at another person. Meaning Steven Avery was innocent all along. The last statement that the young writer wrote was “ As in any situation of tension between conflicting social demand, the pendulum swings periodically from one side to another.” by this he means that the mood of the subject swings back and forth if there is police misconduct or the police is too hostile towards the subject. The subject

There was a couple of places where I could see myself arguing against of what they said. First, I am going to start with the Telling the Story of the Stanford Rape case his father stated that “His every waking minute is consumed with worry, anxiety, fear, and depression. ” I can argue that, if he was worried about what will people think of him and what would be his reputation after he committed the crime then, he should have thought about it before committing the crime. Some people would argue back at me saying he was drunk also it wasn’t he fault, but knowing that you wanted to take advantage of her in this state. No one can consent to anything while, they are drunk because they are not in a good state and Brock Tuner had stated that she “consented”,

Twenty-one years ago my parents, family, and I were part of a dreadful genocide that took place in former Yugoslavia. In 1995, Serbian forces overtook a village in which my family resided and where I was born, the village of Srebrenica. The Serbian forces then demanded all Bosnian-Muslims to leave the Eastern-Bosnia region in an attempt to complete their ethnic cleansing routine. Thousands of Bosnian civilians were kicked out of their homes leaving everything behind. Women, daughters, and young children were demanded to stay with their mothers, while men and young boys were commanded to follow the Serbian troops. Initially, women were ordered to get on buses and be taken to a town in Central Bosnia; this is the town in which I was raised. Many young women, mothers, and daughters were raped by the Serbian troops. Many of these rapes took place in front of other Serbian troops or in front of other women in order to send a message that they were next. Often times women with kids were raped in front of their children and then left like animals. These incidents of rape were in order to lash out at the Bosnian-Muslim population and in hopes of creating Serbian children and Serbian families. Bosnian men and boys were taken to secluded areas, lined up and executed. Their bodies were then thrown into rivers, mass graves, and even

They say if a frog is initially placed in boiling water, it will jump out. But if the temperature is gradually brought to a boiling point, the frog will stay and be cooked alive. The same principle might be applied to societal invasion today. Why destroy a nation or a culture in one massive attack? Would the results of such a bold move outweigh its costs? Would opposition to such a movement not be swift and without mercy? Or, rather, why not slowly permeate a culture from the inside out, cranking up tensions ever-so-slightly, just enough to assert authority, but not enough to set off too many warning bells. Why not saturate a society so wholly its people do not recognize the problem until it’s too late?

Sexual assault and rape has always been a social and public issue in the United States. A majority of the time, women become the victims, while men become the perpetrators. National surveys in the United States show that one in six women has experienced an attempted or completed rape. Consent appears to be a critical factor in determining whether assault or rape has taken place. Women have a higher chance of being raped by who they are acquainted with rather than strangers.

Impunity is defined as an exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action. More specific, it refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice, thus denying victims the right to justice and restoration. These violators may be government officials or private individuals and they are often protected by special jurisdictions, sanctions, immunities, or amnesties. In 1945, at the Nuremberg Trials, which judged the accused war criminals of Nazi Germany, the international community pledged that "never again" would it allow monstrous crimes against humanity or genocide to take place. The United Nations recognized the need for an international criminal court to prosecute and punish persons responsible and to help end impunity for these perpetrators of the most serious crimes against humanity. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. By 1951, international treaties against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity had entered into force, establishing a body of law known as International Humanitarian Law. On July 17, 1998, the international community reached a historic milestone through the adoption of the Rome Statute, the legal basis for establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of crimes

Sexual assault and rape are on-going issues plaguing college campuses all across the nation. In part, I believe this is due to a lack of education on what sexual assault actually is. All too often, victims are leaving these situations feeling confused about something that they will forever deem "a weird night". It often isn't until much later that they realize what happened to them was a violation of their body and of their rights.

 On May 25, 1993, U.N. Security Council Resolution 827 established an international tribunal charged with prosecuting violations of international law arising from the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Not since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, following World War II has an international court tried individuals accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY), which was established at The Hague, Netherlands, is widely seen as an important step toward the deterrence of crimes, the establishment of the firm rule of international law, and the promotion of world peace. Yet, from its inception, the tribunal

Most people think that rape is about sex but it is not. If rape was about getting sex the person would just go and have sex with someone who wants to give it to them. Paying for sex is better than going out and raping someone. Rape is also called sexual assault. Rape is about having power and control over someone. Rape is defined as one person forcing another person, without his or her consent and using violence or threatening violence, to have intercourse or other forms of sexual activity. Usually when people hear about rape they think of a man raping a woman, but rape can happen to anyone. It is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. Some people think that rape is