Human Rights-Related Lists - List of Books Banned by Governments, List of War Crimes, List of Freedom Indices (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: List of books banned by governments, List of war crimes, List of freedom indices, List of 2006 human rights incidents in Egypt, List of Chinese dissidents, List of LGBT-related European Court of Human Rights cases, List of indigenous rights organizations, List of LGBT rights articles by region, List of human rights organisations, LGBT rights by country or territory, List of LGBT rights organizations, List of women's organizations, List of political dissidents, List of gender equality lawsuits, Human rights group, Table of years in LGBT rights, List of human rights articles by country, List of murdered political human rights activists. Excerpt: This article lists and summarizes some of the war crimes committed since the Hague Convention of 1907. In addition, those incidents which have been judged in a court of justice to be Crimes Against Peace that have been committed since these crimes were first defined are also included. Since many war crimes are not ultimately prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), historians and lawyers will often make a serious case that war crimes occurred, even if there was no formal investigations or prosecution of the alleged crimes or an investigation cleared the alleged perpetrators. War crimes under international law were firmly established by international trials such as the 1945 Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo trial of 1946, in which German and Japanese leaders were prosecuted for war crimes committed during World War II. For purpose of selectivity, only war crimes since the customary laws of war were clarified in the Hague Conventions of 1907 are included, because in the judgment at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, it was stated that "by 1939 these rules laid down in the Hague Convention of 1907 were recognised ...