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Richard J Rogers
Richard J Rogers is a British human rights lawyer, specialising in war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ecocide. Rogers was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994 and practiced as a criminal defence barrister in London. He then moved to San Francisco, was admitted in 1997 to the State Bar of California and worked at Coudert Brothers. He is the founding Partner of Global Diligence LLP, and (co)founded two civil society organisations - Climate Counsel, a non-profit specialising in environmental justice, and LexCollective, a global network of public interest law firms. UN international criminal tribunals - genocide and war crimes cases In 1998, Rogers joined the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and helped draft judgements on the Rwandan genocide - ''Kayishema and Ruzindana'', Jean Kambanda, Nahimana et al, and ''Baglishema''. At the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia participated in the field investigation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings (including genocide or ethnic cleansing), the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military, and flouting the legal Indiscriminate attack, distinctions of Proportionality (law), proportionality and military necessity. The formal concept of war crimes emerged from the codification of the customary international law that applied to warfare between sovereign states, such as the Lieber Code (1863) of the Union Army in the American Civil War and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 for int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
