Ending impunity for gender-based violence Ms. Higonnet brings to life an example of the atrocities committed against women with the testimony of a young pregnant woman who was subjected to violence in the western Côte d'Ivoire city of Danané in September 2002.
Davis said the Islamic State videos, which feature Emwazi glorifying in the beheadings, are the sixth example since 9/11 of atrocities launched by terror suspects known to the authorities in the UK, US and the EU, reflecting a "worrying pattern".
Even with the tragically diverse examples of how atrocities are committed in these times, attacking a Church at worship counts as one of the very worst.
Obama came quite close to saying the right thing in his Directive, as he was citing historical examples of mass atrocities and genocide: "Sixty six years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide".
The single most horrific example of human rights atrocities arising from government-instigated communal disputes was the 1997 massacre of 45 defenceless members of a Christian base community called the Abejas (Bees) in the hamlet of Acteal.
Here's another recent example of a wartime atrocity that is perfectly legal and not a war crime at all.
The brutal beheading of US journalist James Foley by a Briton fighting in the ranks of Isis, which calls itself Islamic State, is the latest - and most shocking - example of British jihadists committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq.
Dov Zakheim, for example, has written that the scale of atrocities in places like the Balkans is often exaggerated, and that in any case violating another nation's sovereignty threatens "to unravel the entire fabric of international relations".
Just in the twentieth century alone, we can count hundreds of examples of government-sponsored atrocities, illegal acts and violations of human rights.
Dozens of victims testified of atrocities.
