crime of opportunity

Crimea question [ Crimean conflict | Crimean crisis | Crimean situation | Russo-Ukrainian conflict | Russo-Ukrainian dispute | Russo-Ukrainian issue ]

Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

The Impact of the Availability of Firearms on Violent Crime, Suicide, and Accidental Death: A Review of the Literature with Special Reference to the Canadian Situation

statement of receipts, disbursements and cash position

Crimean haemorrhagic fever | Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever | haemorrhagic Crimean fever | CCHF [Abbr.] | CHF [Abbr.]

Kosovo War and Ethnic Crimes Court | KWECC [Abbr.]

offence [ a crime | breach of the law | misdemeanour | petty offence ]

Congo hemorrhagic fever virus

crime against humanity [ crime under international law | genocide | Holocaust ]

7. Calls on the Russian Federation authorities and the de facto authorities in Crimea, which are bound by international humanitarian law and international human rights law, to grant unimpeded access to Crimea for international institutions and independent experts from the OSCE, the United Nations and the Council of Europe, as well as for any human rights NGOs or news media outlets that wish to visit, assess and report on the situation in Crimea; calls on the Council and the EEAS to put pressure on Russia in this regard; welcomes the ...[+++] decision of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to send his Special Representative for Human Rights to Crimea, as this was the first visit following the Russian annexation and is expected to provide a fresh assessment of the situation on the ground; looks forward to his findings;

2. Expresses its view that the persecution, atrocities and international crimes amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity; stresses that the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’ is committing genocide against Christians and Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities, who do not agree with the so-called ‘ISIS/Daesh’ interpretation of Islam, and that this therefore entails action under the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; underlines the fact that those who intentionally, for ethnic or religious reasons, conspire in, plan, incite, commit or attempt to commit, are complicit in or su ...[+++]pport atrocities should be brought to justice and prosecuted for violations of international law, notably war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide;

7. Is deeply concerned by the deteriorating human rights situation in eastern Ukraine and in Crimea; deplores the ongoing intimidation and harassment of Crimean Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians and all those who have refused Russian citizenship in Crimea; underlines the fact that Russia is directly responsible for worsening the human rights situation in the illegally annexed Crimea and in the Donbas region;

11. Remains convinced that there can be no sustainable peace in Syria without accountability for the crimes committed during the conflict, including for those based on religious or ethnic grounds; reiterates its call for the referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and supports all initiatives in this direction; commends the work of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and of other international actors collecting and preserving a large volume of testimony on se ...[+++]rious crimes committed by the regime and by some rebel groups in Syria, and calls for action in order to bring perpetrators to justice;