The Close Relationship Between Serious Human Rights Violations and Crimes Against Humanity: International Criminalization of Serious Abuses
This article aims to evidence both the existence of a close relationship between the notions of serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity, and how this works in international law. To do so, international legal sources such as the United Nations practice, case-law of international a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/11034 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-internacional/article/view/11034 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | serious human rights violations crimes against humanity international criminal law international human rights law violaciones serias de derechos humanos crímenes de lesa humanidad derecho penal internacional derecho internacional de los derechos humanos violations graves des droits de l’homme crimes contre l’humanité droit pénal international droit international des droits de l’homme |
| Sumario: | This article aims to evidence both the existence of a close relationship between the notions of serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity, and how this works in international law. To do so, international legal sources such as the United Nations practice, case-law of international and hybrid criminal courts and tribunals, and case-law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and other human rights bodies are taken into account. Thus, this article analyses how these and other international sources have examined the above-mentioned relationship, i.e., inter alia the similarities and differences between serious human rights abuses and the legal objective and subjective elements of crimes against humanity. Accordingly, it is found that, although some differences exist, the notion of serious human rights violations underlies the legal concept of crimes against humanity. In turn, this is linked to the relationship between those two categories of international law. |
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