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請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題        Crimes against humanity appeared for the first time in a treaty in the 1945 Nuremberg Charter at theend of the Second World War, albeit with a different definition than today. Since the 1990s, crimes againsthumanity have been codified in different international treaties such as the Statute of the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993), the Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda(1994) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998). The Rome Statute provides themost recent and most expansive list of specific criminal acts that may constitute crimes against humanity.      Unlike other human rights violations, war crimes do not engage state responsibility but individualcriminal responsibility. This means that individuals can be tried and found personally responsible for suchcrimes as murder, extermination, enslavement/deportation or forcible transfer of population,imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, execution against an identifiable group, enforced disappearanceof persons, the crime of apartheid, and other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causinggreat suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health. Governments around the worldoften deny that crimes against humanity have occurred on their territory, thus ignoring the suffering oftheir people. Thousands of desperate victims are still struggling to get long-waited justice, reparation andrecognition.      TRIAL International, a non-governmental organization, helps victims to get their voice heard bybringing their cases before domestic courts, as well as before regional and international human rightsmechanism like the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights.The organization provides free legal support to victims, from the preparation and submission of their case,to the proceedings and the implementation of the decisions on the ground. TRIAL International fights   impunity   by filing criminal and compensation claims against perpetrators of crimes against humanity.These complaints are brought before international bodies, and before national courts thanks to the principleof universal jurisdiction. TRIAL also pushes national justice systems to investigate situations andprosecute the perpetrators of mass atrocities.
【題組】16 Which of the following statements is true about TRIAL International?
(A) It is a government supported organization to fight against crimes of a large-scale attack targeting civilians.
(B) It helps victims of family violence to bring their cases to international courts for justice and reparation.
(C) It often denies that crimes against humanity have occurred, thus subjecting people to legal violations.
(D) It fights crimes against humanity by providing free legal support of filing cases for the victims.

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答案:D
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【評論內容】TRIAL International, a non-governmental organization, helps victims to get their voice heard by bringing their cases before domestic courts, as well as before regional and international human rights mechanism like the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights.TRIAL International 是一個非政府組織,通過將案件提交國內法院以及聯合國人權委員會和歐洲人權法院等區域和國際人權機制,幫助受害者表達自己的意見。The organization provides free legal support to victims, from the preparation and submission of their case, to the proceedings and the implementation of the decisi...