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#crimes against humanity

Specific prohibited acts (murder, torture, deportation, persecution, etc.) committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population. Defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute and applicable outside of armed conflict.

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Updated March 26, 2026 Corruption & Self-Dealing
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

Epstein Files: DOJ Withholds Evidence, UN Experts Warn of Crimes Against Humanity

After signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Trump administration's DOJ missed legal deadlines, secretly re-redacted files, and withheld documents containing allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor — prompting a UN finding that the crimes described may amount to crimes against humanity, bipartisan congressional subpoenas of AG Bondi, and calls for a special counsel over alleged perjury.

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Jeffrey Epsteincrimes against humanityobstruction of justicePam Bondiperjury
Updated March 25, 2026 Extrajudicial Killing
War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Operation Southern Spear: Lethal Drone Strikes on Caribbean and Pacific Drug Boats

A sustained campaign of Hellfire missile strikes on suspected drug boats has killed at least 95 people without due process, public evidence of drug trafficking, or identification of the dead. Legal experts widely classify these as extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity.

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extrajudicial killingdrone strikescrimes against humanityOperation Southern Speardouble tap
Updated March 25, 2026 Deportation to Torture
War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Forced Disappearances of Salvadoran Deportees in El Salvador's Prison System

Systematic forced disappearances of Salvadoran nationals deported from the US, held incommunicado in Salvadoran prisons including CECOT with no access to lawyers, families, or courts. The US bears responsibility for knowingly deporting individuals to a country practicing enforced disappearance — a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.

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forced disappearanceEl SalvadorCECOTdeportationnon-refoulement
Updated April 9, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Trump Proposes Forcible Displacement of 2.3 Million Palestinians from Gaza

President Trump publicly called for the forced displacement of 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza, describing it as 'cleaning out' the territory. The proposal was condemned by the UN, Arab League, and international lawyers as ethnic cleansing. Trump subsequently issued executive orders and pressure on Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinian deportees.

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GazaPalestineethnic cleansingforced displacementTrump