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Journal articles on the topic "Crimes against humanity - Sierra Leone"

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Mariniello, Triestino. "Prosecutor v. Taylor." American Journal of International Law 107, no. 2 (2013): 424–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5305/amerjintelaw.107.2.0424.

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On April 26, 2012, Trial Chamber II (Chamber) of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Special Court or Court) in The Hague convicted former Liberian president Charles Ghankay Taylor of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from November 30, 1996, to January 18, 2002, in the territory of Sierra Leone during its civil war. Specifically, Taylor was found guilty of the crimes against humanity of murder, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement and other inhumane acts, and the war crimes of committing acts of terror, murder, outrages upon personal dignity, cruel treatment, pillage, and conscript

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KAMARA, JOSEPH F. "Preserving the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Challenges and Lessons Learned in Prosecuting Grave Crimes in Sierra Leone." Leiden Journal of International Law 22, no. 4 (2009): 761–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156509990215.

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AbstractSierra Leone experienced particularly heinous and widespread crimes against humanity and war crimes during its eleven years of civil war from 1991 to 2002. During the war, the civilian population was targeted by all the fighting factions. Civilians were captured, abducted, and held as slaves used for forced labour. The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established by the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations in 2002, through Security Council Resolution 1315. It is mandated to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international humanitaria

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Goodfellow, Nicholas Azadi. "The Miscategorization of 'Forced Marriage' as a Crime against Humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone." International Criminal Law Review 11, no. 5 (2011): 831–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157181211x603158.

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AbstractThis article considers the finding by the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone that forced marriage is a crime against humanity. While hailed as an evolution in the prosecution of gender-based crimes, the finding is legally and factually unsound. The Chamber's decision offends the principle of legality, specifically, non-retroactivity, the prohibition on analogy, and the requirement of specificity. In addition, the Chamber misconstrued the facts and law with regards to sexual slavery in distinguishing it from forced marriage. This article critically examines each eleme

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Eboe-Osuji, Chile. "Crimes Against Humanity: Directing Attacks Against A Civilian Population." African Journal of Legal Studies 2, no. 2 (2008): 118–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221097312x13397499736543.

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AbstractIn international criminal law, to sustain a charge of crimes against humanity, the Prosecution must prove, among other elements, that the perpetrator was involved in an attack directed against a civilian population. In Prosecutor v Fofana and Kondewa, the Special Court for Sierra Leone found that the Prosecution failed to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the civilian population was the 'primary object' of the attack and acquitted the accused on the counts of murder and other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity. The Appeals Chamber accepted this view. However, it reversed Tri

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Beresford, Stuart, and A. S. Muller. "The Special Court for Sierra Leone: An Initial Comment." Leiden Journal of International Law 14, no. 3 (2001): 635–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156501000310.

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The proposed establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone is a valiant effort to end impunity for the egregious crimes that were committed during the Sierra Leonean civil war. Nonetheless, the Special Court – which will have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity, war crimes, and various offences under Sierra Leonean national law – will have a number of major hurdles to cross in order to fulfill its mandate. Most notably the Court as currently empowered lacks the ability to induce the authorities of third states to comply with its orders and has limited temporal jurisdiction: thereby

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Tejan-Cole, Abdul. "The complementary and conflicting relationship between the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 5 (December 2002): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1389135900001100.

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Societies emerging from political turmoil and civil unrest associated with gross violations of human rights and humanitarian law face the crucial question of how to deal with these atrocities and put the past in its place. Since the 1980s, this problem has been a major preoccupation of international law and scholarship. The traditional responses include outside intervention in such states pursuant to Chapter VII powers under the United Nations Charter, grants of conditional amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity, grants of some form of unconditional amnesty, and pros

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Olusanya, Olaoluwa. "The Statute of the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity– Progressive or Regressive?" German Law Journal 5, no. 7 (2004): 859–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s207183220001289x.

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The global effort to establish an effective system of international justice is at an important phase in its history. After close to 50 years of relative stagnation following the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II, the field of international criminal law has been revitalised. The establishment of the International Criminal Court, the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, “hybrid” or “internationalised” processes such as the Special Court in Sierra Leone, and national criminal justice systems exercising universal jurisdiction, have all lent substance and credibility

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Huneeus, Alexandra. "International Criminal Law by Other Means: The Quasi-criminal Jurisdiction of the Human Rights Courts." American Journal of International Law 107, no. 1 (2013): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5305/amerjintelaw.107.1.0001.

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Since the close of the Cold War, the international community has created a variety of legal institutions designed to step in when state justice systems fail to prosecute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The ad hoc criminal tribunals, the hybrid tribunals (such as the Special Court for Sierra Leone), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the use of universal jurisdiction by national courts are among a new generation of courtly mechanisms designed to hold wrongdoers criminally accountable, state justice systems notwithstanding. These mechanisms represent an era of interna

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Oosterveld, Valerie. "The Special Court for Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Forced Marriage: Providing Clarity or Confusion?" Canadian Yearbook of international Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 45 (2008): 131–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0069005800009309.

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SummaryThis article considers the first two trial, and corresponding first two appeal, judgments issued by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in what are commonly referred to as the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and Civil Defence Forces (CDF) cases. These judgments are noteworthy for having been the first to adjudicate at the international level the war crime of conscription or enlistment of children under the age of fifteen or using them to participate actively in hostilities and the gender-based crime against humanity of forced marriage. Beginning with the issue of child soldiers

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Gadler, Alice. "The Protection of Peacekeepers and International Criminal Law: Legal Challenges and Broader Protection." German Law Journal 11, no. 6 (2010): 585–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2071832200018745.

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The concern for the safety and security of personnel involved in peacekeeping missions has grown in the last two decades, mainly because of the increased risks deriving from deployment in volatile environments and mandates comprising multiple tasks. This article provides an overview of the developments of international law regarding the protection of peacekeepers, with a special focus on international criminal law and its role in enhancing the safety of the personnel and objects involved in peacekeeping missions. Indeed, starting in 2008, international and hybrid tribunals have issued their fi

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Crimes against humanity - Sierra Leone"

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Negash, Tesfamicael. "Accomplishments, shortcomings and challenges: evaluation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4727_1183988504.

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<p>This thesis assessed the effectiveness of the Special Court in relation to the impact is has made in cultivating the rudiments of a human rights culture, dispensing justice, ending a culture of impunity, effecting unity and national reconciliation in post war Sierra Leone.</p>

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Gassama, Diakhoumba. "Accountability and prosecution in the Liberian transitional society: lessons from Rwanda and Sierra Leone." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_3458_1180416748.

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<p>In the aftermath of World War Two, the International Community has shown a renewed commitment towards the protection of human rights. However, whether during wars or under dictatorial regimes, numerous human rights abuses occurred everywhere in the world, from Latin America to Eastern Europe and from Southern Europe to Africa. Countries which experienced oppressive governance or outrageous atrocities has to address the legacies of their past on the return of democratic rule or peace. In other words, they had to emerge from the darkness of dictatorship or civil war in order to establish a de

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Mitchell, David Scott. "Voicing the Silent War Crime: Prosecuting Sexual Violence in the Special Court for Sierra Leone." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146448301.

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Tsegay, Tesfamicael Negash. "Accomplishments, shortcomings and challenges : evaluation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1236.

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"In response to President Kabah's request of June 2000, the United Nations Security Council called on the Secretary-General to negotiate an agreement with the government of Sierra Leone for the creation of a special court for Sierra Leone (hereafter SCSL), to investigate the atrocities committed within the country, by Resolution 1315 of 14 August 2000. Under the agreement concluded in February 2001, the SCSL has jurisdiction over crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed since November 1996. The author assesses in detail the ef

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Mahony, Christopher. "International crimes prosecution case selection : the ICC, ICTR, and SCSL." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a390aead-46cb-42bb-baa7-431540692d9d.

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International crimes prosecutions have become more common since 1993, both domestically and at international courts and tribunals. The advance of this norm confronts realist state interests causing debate about the norm's status. Kathryn Sikkink views a norm as cascading when enough states adopt it to cause international influence, without domestic pressure, to procure levels of conformity. This thesis considers the degree of conformity by observing the level of case selection independence to determine whether this norm is cascading. By identifying the jurisdictional and functional elements of

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La, Rosa Aurélie. "Le concept d'enfant soldat et la Cour Pénale Internationale." Thesis, Lille 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LIL20006.

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Depuis la fin du vingtième siècle, l’attention de la communauté internationale s’est portée sur l’utilisation de l’enfant soldat dans les conflits armés. La prolifération d’armes légères, la pauvreté et la multiplication des conflits armés non internationaux sont autant de facteurs à l’origine du phénomène. De nombreux instruments de protection des droits de l’enfant prévoient l’interdiction du recrutement et de l’utilisation d’enfants soldats dans les hostilités. Malgré les lacunes normatives qui s’en dégagent, notamment à propos de l’âge de recrutement de l’enfant soldat, d’importants effort

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Wakefield, Lorenzo Mark. "Exploring the differences and similarities in sexual violence as forms of genocide and crimes against humanity." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3343.

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Magister Legum - LLM<br>Even though sexual violence has always been a part and parcel of conflicts and atrocities throughout the ages, it never found any interpretation by subsequent tribunals who were responsible for prosecuting offenders.The case of The Prosecutor v Jean-Paul Akayesu was the first of its kind to give jurisprudential recognition and interpretation to sexual violence as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide respectively. This case was important for the following reasons:1. It acknowledged that sexual violence can amount to an act of genocide; 2. It acknowledged th

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Books on the topic "Crimes against humanity - Sierra Leone"

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International, Amnesty. Sierra Leone: Rape and other forms of sexual violence against girls and women. Amnesty International USA, 2000.

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Coulter, Chris. Bush wives and girl soldiers: Women's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone. Cornell University Press, 2009.

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Bush wives and girl soldiers: Women's lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone. Cornell University Press, 2009.

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Being a bush wife: Women's lives through war and peace in northern Sierra Leone. Uppsala Universitet, 2006.

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Coulter, Chris. Being a bush wife: Women's lives through war and peace in northern Sierra Leone. Uppsala Universitet, 2006.

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Blood diamonds: Tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones. Basic Books, 2004.

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Blood diamonds: Tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones. Westview Press, 2002.

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Campbell, Greg. Blood diamonds: Tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones. Westview Press, 2002.

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Rodenhäuser, Tilman. The Historical Development of Crimes against Humanity and Jurisprudence of the Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, and Sierra Leone Tribunals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821946.003.0011.

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Chapter 8 analyses post-World War II jurisprudence, national jurisprudence, the International Law Commission’s work, and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) jurisprudence regarding what types of non-state entities might be involved in crimes against humanity. It argues that while the Nuremberg Charter and post-World War II jurisprudence, including national jurisprudence, were focused on state crimes, state involvement has rarely been considered a legal element of crimes a

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Laucci, Cyril. Digest of Jurisprudence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 2003-2005. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Crimes against humanity - Sierra Leone"

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Grover, Sonja C. "The Special Court of Sierra Leone." In Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00518-3_4.

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"Article 2. Crimes against Humanity." In Digest of Jurisprudence of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 2003-2005. Brill | Nijhoff, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004152342.i-873.8.

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Arif, Yasmeen. "The International Social." In Life, Emergent. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9781517900540.003.0002.

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The first chapter focuses on the civil wars of Sierra Leone, exploring the convictions that were made in the Special Court of Sierra Leone for the first time in international criminal law under international humanitarian regimes. Delving into what makes for the meaning of humanity in “crimes against” it, the author traces the inscription of formal humanitarian discourse and practice in the making of law. In particular it looks at the international emotional response to suffering of the professionalized expression in law when it is located in the figure of violated childhood— channeling a sense of protected humanity through that figure.

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"Forced Marriage As a Crime Against Humanity." In The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Cambridge University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316823491.007.

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"44. Nigeria’s Jurisdiction To Prosecute Johnny Paul Koroma For War Crimes Committed In Sierra Leone." In Protecting Humanity. Brill | Nijhoff, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004183780.i-882.207.

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"19 Justice And Gender: Prosecuting Gender-Based and Sexual Violence Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone." In Shielding Humanity. Brill | Nijhoff, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004293137_020.

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Atiba-Davies, Gloria. "Justice for Children Affected by Political Violence." In Handbook of Political Violence and Children. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190874551.003.0018.

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This chapter catalogs the list of crimes against and affecting children during conflict and situations of war over which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction. It provides information on the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunals of Yugoslavia and Rwanda as well as the Special Court of Sierra Leone and how they addressed issues relating to crimes against children. The chapter describes the structure and functioning of the ICC. In addition, significant information is presented about the work of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC relating to investigations and cases including crimes against children. Lastly, it gives an overview of the Sexual and Gender-based Crimes Policy and the Policy on Children of the OTP, which were launched in 2014 and 2016, respectively. Both policies provide the framework within which the OTP will conduct the preliminary examinations, investigations, and prosecutions of those crimes.

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