Sentence examples for constitutive act from inspiring English sources

In a resolution adopted in 2008 the UN Security Council affirmed that "rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide".

In 2008, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820, which noted that "rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, or a constitutive act with respect to genocide".

The implementation of the SFDRR in Africa is subject to the Constitutive Act of the African Union (AU 2000), which provides the constitutional basis for all policies, strategies, and programs and all actions of the African Union.

A Constitutive Act, which provided for the establishment of the African Union, was ratified by two-thirds of the OAU's members and came into force on May 26 , 2001

The AU's Constitutive Act included a provision for "the right of the Union to intervene in a member state pursuant to a decision of the [AU] assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely: war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity".

The ceremony took place not in Rome but in the imperial chapel at Aachen; the pope was not present; the constitutive act was the acclamation of the gathered Frankish nobility; and Louis either received the diadem from his father or took it with his own hands from the altar.

The constitutive acts of killing, causing bodily or mental harm, raping and preventing births, as well as the forced transfer of people from their land, all meet the legal requirements to be classified as genocide.

Mention should also be made of the constitutive acts of the union that prescribe its general aims, its organization, its financial structure, and the rules of membership, namely, the constitution and its general regulations.

The verdict, handed down in September , 1998 was not only the first international conviction for genocide but also the first to recognize rape and sexual violence as constitutive acts of genocide, and the first to broaden the definition of sexual violence to include, in addition to rape, nonphysical acts such as intimidation and extortion.

The constitutive acts that gender individuals create genders as "compelling illusion[s]" (Butler 1990, 271).

But, she takes our understanding of this existence to be a product of social conditioning: social conditioning makes the existence of physical bodies intelligible to us by discursively constructing sexed bodies through certain constitutive acts.