26 June 2009
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Humanitarian Intervention Initiative (H-II)
Url: www.UNArts.org/H-II
H-II: G-8 Iran - United Nations Protective Force
As G-8 leaders are calling for an immediate end to violence in Iran (AP), an appeal has also
been presented for:
-- United Nations Protective Forces (Wickpedia) to
prevent killing and brutilization of civilian populations.
UN Security Council Resolution 1674, adopted by
the United Nations
Security Council on 28 April 2006, "reaffirms the provisions of
paragraphs 138 and 139 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document regarding the
responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic
cleansing and crimes against humanity".
-- Release of university professors, journalists and
pro-reform protesters, now imprisoned (every victim is to be
accounted for).
As leaders in Iran are calling for those imprisoned to be punished
“without mercy” (Hardliner says Iran protesters should be punished
'without mercy', Times Online, 26 June 2009), evidence
collection, testimonies and witness protection is now focused on
the pursuit of charges of Crimes Against Humanity (Wickpedia):
According to the Rome statute of the International
Criminal Court Article 7: Crimes against humanity:
For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against
humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a
widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian
population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment
or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of
fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of
comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on
political, racial,
national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds
that are universally recognized as impermissible under international
law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any
crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance
of
persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing
great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical
health.
Related:
- H-II: Appeal to International Association of
University
Presidents - 70 Professors Arrested in Iran, Humanitarian Resource
Institute,
24 June 2009.
- H-II: IOC Asked to Support Iranian Athletes,
Humanitarian Resource Institute, 24 June 2009.
- H-II: Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Attorney, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate, will represent family of Neda, Humanitarian
Resource Institute,
24 June 2009.
- H-II: Human Rights Reporting - Evidence Collection -
Witness Protection, Humanitarian Resource Institute, 23 June 2009.
Looking forward to immediate action in response to this emergency, as
per the the new human rights framework that is being established for
all UN member countries.
Stephen
M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
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