How to Use crime against humanity in a Sentence

crime against humanity

noun phrase
  • Countries are not blocked, because people are blocked and that must be a crime against humanity.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Drone attacks on civilians in areas along the front line of Russia’s war with Ukraine amount to the crime against humanity of murder, the report says.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Drone attacks in Kherson have more than doubled, with the UN concluding these widespread assaults constitute murder as a crime against humanity.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • French officials condemned the damage to the ancient monastery, comparing it to bombing Notre-Dame, while Ukrainian religious leaders called it a crime against humanity.
    — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Another senator, Ronald dela Rosa, has gone into hiding after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for an alleged crime against humanity.
    — ABC News, 1 June 2026
  • The agreement at a summit hosted in Ghana by President John Dramani Mahama and attended by the presidents of Liberia, Namibia, and Senegal comes on the heels of a UN declaration that the slave trade was a crime against humanity.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 June 2026
  • In May 2025, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine concluded that Russian drone attacks against civilians in Kherson Oblast were widespread and systematic and amounted to murder as a crime against humanity.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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