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Hate Speech And Persecution: A Contextual Approach, Gregory S. Gordon Aug 2012

Hate Speech And Persecution: A Contextual Approach, Gregory S. Gordon

Gregory S. Gordon

Scholarly work on atrocity-speech law has focused almost exclusively on incitement to genocide. But case law has established liability for a different speech offense: persecution as a crime against humanity (CAH). The lack of scholarship regarding this crime is puzzling given a split between the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and Yugoslavia (ICTY) on the issue of whether hate speech can serve as an actus reus for CAH-persecution. In the 2000 Ruggiu and 2003 Nahimana judgments, separate ICTR Trial Chambers found that hate speech radio broadcasts not calling for violence deprived the target ethnic group of fundamental rights and …


Victim Participation At The International Criminal Court And The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia: A Feminist Project, Susana Sacouto Jan 2012

Victim Participation At The International Criminal Court And The Extraordinary Chambers In The Courts Of Cambodia: A Feminist Project, Susana Sacouto

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

The question this Article poses is whether victim participation--one of the most recent developments in international criminal law--has increased the visibility of the actual lived experience of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the context of war, mass violence, or repression. Under the Rome Statute, victims of the world's most serious crimes were given unprecedented rights to participate in proceedings before the Court. Nearly a decade later, a similar scheme was established to allow victims to participate as civil parties in the proceedings before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC or Extraordinary Chambers), a court created …