Starvation and international crime
Journal: Revista Diecisiete Investigación Interdisciplinar para los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Year: 2023

One of the most pernicious causes of the backsliding on global hunger is the human infliction of deprivation, whether in the form of belligerents’ decisions about how to wage war or governments’ decisions about how to exercise control over populations. Some of these decisions are criminal, but accountability is rare. Change requires building the confidence of prosecutors and investigators in the viability of the legal tools available, despite the relative graduality of the effects of deprivation