Subject: Re: Help!
From: Steve Russell (srussell@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 13:10:53 CDT
Charisse,
While I can't help you on the overall course, I can suggest something that
ought to be included. Herewith a couple of grafs from a paper Mike
Gilbert and I just read at ACJS. The reference will follow in a separate
e-mail.
Steve Russell
On July 17, 1998, the international community adopted by a non-recorded
electronic vote the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
(U.N. Doc. A/CONF.183/9) (hereinafter, "Rome Statute"), a proposed
multilateral treaty creating a permanent forum for the prosecution of "the
most serious crimes of concern to the International community as a
whole." The proposed permanent court would be complementary to national
criminal jurisdictions (Rome Statute, preamble). The vote was 120 in
favor, 7 against, with 21 abstentions. The only nations known at this
time to be among the dissenting seven are China, Israel, and the United
States (Brown 1999).
Jurisdiction of the proposed court would be limited to four international
"street crimes:" genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the
crime of aggression. (Rome Statute, Article 5, 1). All these crimes are
defined within the Rome Statute, and "crimes against humanity" is defined
to include rape, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization and other sexual
oppression when practiced in a systematic manner. (Rome Statute, Article
7, 1 (g). While there is nothing new about rape by armies, recent
incidences of sexual oppression as official policy have driven this
specific prohibition (Moshan 1998).
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