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ECCC: 002: No Armed Conflict Nexus Requirement from the Definition of Crimes Against Humanity

2010-10-26, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Trial Chamber granted the Co-Prosecutors’ motion to exclude armed conflict nexus requirement from the definition of crimes against humanity. This decision effectively reversed the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision holding that it was not clear whether a nexus to armed conflict was part of the customary international law definition of crimes against humanity [...]
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ECCC: 002: Trial Chamber Rejects JCEIII

2011-09-12, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After reviewing the WWII jurisprudence cited by the ICTY and the STL in support of JCE III, the ECCC Trial Chamber found that the inference drawn by those tribunals that post-WWII convictions were based on JCE III “was not the only possible one based on the surviving record.” As a result, the [...]
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USA: Doe: Vatican and Pope Sued in the U.S. for Child Molestation

2010-04-22, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A. The Holy See (Vatican), Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Tarcisio Bertone (Cardinal Secretary of State) and Angelo Sodano (Dean of the College of Cardinals) are listed as the defendants in a complaint filed in the United State District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin. Facts. The complaint arises from sexual abuse of [...]
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