Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court?
Drug trafficking is a criminal activity that has become an international problem of growing magnitude. In some regions it is an emerging source of instability that threatens to jeopardize international security. Given the danger of this phenome- non, some states have tried to make acts of drug traff...
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Universidad del Rosario
2014-03-01
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| author | Salvador Cuenca Curbelo |
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| description | Drug trafficking is a criminal activity that has become an international problem of growing magnitude. In some regions it is an emerging source of instability that threatens to jeopardize international security. Given the danger of this phenome- non, some states have tried to make acts of drug trafficking fall within the jurisdic- tion of an international criminal court. Although no agreement about its inclusion in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was finally reached, the possibility of qualifying such acts as crimes against humanity has been raised from different fronts. This would allow their investigation or prosecution by the Inter- national Criminal Court itself. This paper analyses to what extent criminal orga- nizations involved in drug trafficking can fulfill the contextual elements of crimes against humanity as defined by the Rome Statute and, if so, to what extent acts of drug trafficking, despite not being expressly included in the Rome Statute, can be considered as “other inhumane acts” of a similar character to the acts referred to in Article 7 (1) of the Rome Statute. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7fbe3b494ad543d2ad33b15df15712c12022-12-22T00:14:31ZspaUniversidad del RosarioAnuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal2346-31202014-03-01101051342152Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court?Salvador Cuenca Curbelo0Licenciado en Derecho y magíster en Estudios Avanzados en Derechos Humanos, del Instituto de Derechos Humanos “Bartolomé de las Casas” de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.Ha colaborado como investigador visitante en el Instituto Iberoamericano de La Haya para la Paz, los Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Internacional(IIH).Drug trafficking is a criminal activity that has become an international problem of growing magnitude. In some regions it is an emerging source of instability that threatens to jeopardize international security. Given the danger of this phenome- non, some states have tried to make acts of drug trafficking fall within the jurisdic- tion of an international criminal court. Although no agreement about its inclusion in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was finally reached, the possibility of qualifying such acts as crimes against humanity has been raised from different fronts. This would allow their investigation or prosecution by the Inter- national Criminal Court itself. This paper analyses to what extent criminal orga- nizations involved in drug trafficking can fulfill the contextual elements of crimes against humanity as defined by the Rome Statute and, if so, to what extent acts of drug trafficking, despite not being expressly included in the Rome Statute, can be considered as “other inhumane acts” of a similar character to the acts referred to in Article 7 (1) of the Rome Statute.http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/anidip/article/view/2862crímenes de lesa humanidadotros actos inhumanostráfico de drogasCorte Penal Internacionalcrimen organizado |
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| title | Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court? |
| title_full | Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court? |
| title_fullStr | Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court? |
| title_short | Drug Trafficking: A crime against humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court? |
| title_sort | drug trafficking a crime against humanity in the rome statue of the international criminal court |
| topic | crímenes de lesa humanidad otros actos inhumanos tráfico de drogas Corte Penal Internacional crimen organizado |
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