But government opponents say the "crime against humanity" has "dire consequences for justice".
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The U.K. dealt with this crime against humanity in a manner consistent with liberal democracy and the rule of law.
Yet murder, enslavement, forcible population transfers, torture, rape: North Korea commits nearly every atrocity that counts as a crime against humanity.
In the US, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said "the characterisation of Zionism as a crime against humanity... is offensive and wrong".
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"The court decides to sentence Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for committing willful killing as a crime against humanity, " the judge intoned.
You've been accused of complicity with the Janjaweed militias who have carried out the atrocities, that makes you directly responsible for an appalling crime against humanity.
The firms are accused of doing business with, and supporting, the white-minority South African government even after a United Nations ruling that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this week called Zionism a "crime against humanity" - remarks that have been widely condemned, and which Mr Kerry on Friday called "objectionable".
Some councils have warned the scheme - for England - will be a "free-for-all", but Mr Boles said he did not "see it as a crime against humanity".
"We are gratified with this latest arrest and hope that justice will be served on all of those who were involved in this crime against humanity, " they said in a statement.
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Taubira, from French Guinea, has served as French deputy in the Assembly since 1993, during which time she proposed a law that recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as a crime against humanity.
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