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- - which recognises that persecution can be enacted against members of a section of the population (a ‘group’) that is suffering oppression or is threatened as a whole in its home country according to one of the criteria defined in the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol to an extent that the members of such a group are not only covertly or potentially at risk, but quite tangibly and imminently requiring thus a certain intensity of persecution to warrant the general assumption of the...
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Oct 1, 2022 · The degree of persecution against a group can range from mild discrimination and restrictions on civil, economic, and political rights, all the way to systematic pogroms and mass killing. What accounts for heterogeneity in the intensity of this persecution?
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Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms.
Discrimination and violence against groups: Where genocide occurs, there usually have been earlier acts of discrimination, persecution, and violence against people who belong to a certain group. In Rwanda, Tutsis faced various forms of discrimination.
Persecution can consist in violations of basic socio-economic rights. Depending on the societal context, laws which fail to conform to basic international human rights standards can be instruments of persecution. Laws may also constitute persecution if applied in a discriminatory or disproportionate way.
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Apr 14, 2023 · This model of government stands in contrast to liberal democracies that support individual rights, competitive elections, and political dissent. In many ways, fascist regimes are revolutionary...
It includes “persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender . . . or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law” as a crime against humanity (Art. 7.1.h of ICC Statute).
Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof. The tendency of societies or groups within societies to alienate or repress different subcultures is a recurrent theme in human history.
