Genocide Convention, Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... 91-2, on Executive O, 81-1. April 24, 27, and May 22, 19701970 - Počet stran: 261 |
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Strana 13 - (6) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (a) Killing members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to
Strana 36 - of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and punish. The United States, which was founded on the basis of protest against governmental excesses, and which grew great in substantial measure because it was a haven and the hope for oppressed persons everywhere,
Strana 199 - persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the state" in which the act was committed, or by "such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to such contracting parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Strana 197 - If the Senate should ratify the Genocide Convention, it would bring into play article IX which provides that disputes between the parties to the convention relating to the "interpretation, application, or fulfillment" of the convention "shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Strana 201 - it intends to prohibit so they may have a certain and understandable rule of conduct and know what it is their duty to avoid. "A statute which either forbids or requires 'the doing of an act in terms so
Strana 137 - The very absurdity of these possibilities brings into focus the extraordinary ambiguity of the statutory language ... a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, violates the first essential of due process of law . . .
Strana 186 - ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. ABTICLE
Strana 182 - Mrs. EASTMAN. I would just like to refer to one provision of the convention. Although the opinion on this question is not one-sided by any means, if you look at article V of the convention, it requires the contracting parties undertake to enact in accordance with their respective constitutions the necessary legislation.
Strana 111 - Mr. GARDNER. The answer to that is complicated, as the Senator is aware. The article that you refer to says that persons charged with genocide shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the state in the territory in which the act was committed.
Strana 176 - the contracting parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present convention, and in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts