Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls

Millions of files related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations human rights council has said.

The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny. The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls.

“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” they said in a statement.

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    11 hours ago

    How TF could having a bunch of girls’ corpses buried “out back” POSSIBLY “not” be in the crimes-against-humanity category?!

    “It’s time for a crusade.” goes the meme?

    ( that utterly-perfect image of the guy pushing his glasses on … with the arms going through the helmet’s eye-holes… : )

    THIS IS LIKE THE UN’S SITTING-OUT THE POLICING-RESPONSIBILITY DURING THE RWANDAN HOLOCAUST.

    Idiocy.

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