InTrafficking JusticeLauren McCarthy explains how in 2003 Russia added to its criminal code articles on human trafficking and the use of slave labor, in part to satisfy international obligations and modelled on language from other countries.
Switzerland has had a common civil code since 1912 and its criminal code was unified in 1942.
The responsibility to do so is embedded in its domestic criminal code that explicitly authorizes the government to prosecute torture occurring outside Canadian borders.
But although Leslie says people who seek abortions usually aren't prosecuted, she concedes "if it's in the criminal code, it's in the criminal code".
The first iteration of it actually appeared in the Queensland criminal code in 1899; at the time it was used to prohibit the disclosure of information about the state's battery and fortifications.
It is still regulated in the criminal code, and, Christensen learned, it is a crime in New York if an abortion is performed after a woman is twenty-four weeks pregnant, unless the mother's life is in immediate jeopardy.
We... urge revision in the criminal code as it relates to homosexuality... .. 1972 (the year I entered rabbinical school), the world's first LGBT-outreach synagogue, Beth Chayim Chadashim, here in Los Angeles, was founded in 1972 and affiliated with the Reform Movement.
It takes its name from the article on fraud in the criminal code.
Although reporting might seem an insignificant measure to take, it may contribute to bringing about a change in the criminal code to make sentences tougher.
BEIJING — China moved on Thursday to enhance the rights of suspects and defendants in criminal cases, recommending that its handpicked national legislature adopt a series of Western-style safeguards in the most sweeping revisions to its criminal procedure code in 15 years.
