Famine crimes in international law

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Marcus, D
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.2307/3100102
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 245-+
• 关键词: humanity; need; WAR

摘要

The author argues that international criminal law assigns individual responsibility to those who deliberately or recklessly create, prolong, or inflict faminogenic conditions. After demonstrating with three case studies how famines often arise out of gross human rights violations, the author defines two degrees of famine crimes corresponding to mental states of knowledge and recklessness and locates in existing international criminal law the elements of the two definitions. The article concludes with a proposal for formal codification of these crimes.