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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

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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.

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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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