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The International Criminal Court
July 31st, 2010 | 
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The International Criminal Court [1] provides in Article 7 Crimes against humanity, which provides as follows:
1. For the purposes of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a 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 and other sexual violence of comparable gravity
More suicides and crimes crisis
MADRID .- The fall in investment, rising layoffs and the growing fear of the future that can be felt in the environment are not the only consequences of the economic recession which we live. The crisis may also increase the rate of suicides and homicides, judging by the results of an interesting job.
Its authors, led by David Stuckler, University of Oxford (UK), shown in the last message ‘The Lancet’ that unemployment increases similar to those recorded this year in the past caused peaks rise in the number of people they took off the life or committing murder.
Researchers who analyzed data from 26 countries of the European Union dated from 1970 and 2007, also found that increases in unemployment were related also to a significant reduction in the number of road accidents.
Vaccines and Public Health
For many centuries, especially from the formation of cities, people lived at the mercy of epidemics. Around 400 BC, Hippocrates distinguished between the diseases that usually affect populations (endemeion) of the “visiting” from the outside (epidemeion), defining and differentiating epidemic, as an objective of the realidad.1 For Moreover, in the biblical book of Revelation (circa 100 AD) is described as one of its four fearsome riders, the Plague, (a) hierarchy as one of the scourges of humanity, inevitable and inexplicable.
The development of the first vaccine in the West, 2 applied by Edward Jenner in England in the eighteenth century, introduced the first instrument to deal with epidemic diseases. The smallpox inoculation technique was applied in China many centuries ago. Jenner’s proposals were supported and financed by the wife of a British diplomat who had seen the technique in that country. The development of nineteenth century science allowed us to learn the characteristics and modes of transmission of infectious diseases, allowing the development of preventive tools, among which the most impact were drinking water and vaccinations.
In Argentina, there was in the early 60′s a big increase in value of vaccines, probably due to the coincidence in time of the polio epidemic of 1956 to 1957 and the emergence of the first vaccines for the disease (1955 Salk, Sabin 1960).
Public health is endangered by the repressive measures against HIV
Rights violations forced to hide for those who need information or treatment
New York .- The Cairo police have arrested four men suspected of having HIV, signaling an intensification of the crackdown that endangers public health and violates basic human rights, Amnesty International today expressed Rights Watch and in a joint statement.
With these 12 men are now detained in the context of a campaign against people suspected of being HIV positive. Four have been sentenced to one year in prison, and the other eight remained in custody. Both organizations have urged the Egyptian authorities to respect human rights of these men and their immediate release if they do not want to cause profound damage to initiatives for HIV / AIDS in the country.
“In their misguided attempt to apply Egyptian law on the unjust homosexual conduct, authorities are conducting a crackdown against people living with HIV / AIDS,” said Rebecca Schleifer, of the HIV / AIDS and Human Rights Human Rights Watch. This not only violate basic human rights of people living with HIV / AIDS, but also endanger public health by making request information on the prevention and treatment of HIV / AIDS is a risk. ”
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Crimes Against Public Health
This work is the basic knowledge needed for overall treatment that the jurisprudence of TS has recently given the drug trafficking offenses. It underlines the importance of issues currently under discussion by the doctrine and the criminal organization, wiretaps and expert analysis. It also analyzes the existing case law on two procedural issues that are frequently applied in the courts, in judging a crime against public health, such as wiretapping and expert analysis, and in many cases, not complied the minimum procedural guarantees, resulting in the acquittal for the defendants, for infringement of the guarantees that are required in each case.