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Medical experiments as crimes against humanity - corporations and secret service agencies

The reflection on the Pfizer case (Alien Tort Statute) unveils the consequences of not resolving conflicts of interests among the various stakeholders in the process of medical research in favor of human subjects and calls for reconsideration whether there is a proper protection of human subjects by international criminal law. Linking the Nuremberg trial with the trial against the leading pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer for performing fatal experiments on Nigerian children, the paper reconsiders crimes committed by leading multinational corporations in collusion with national authorities and political elites within the framework of crimes against humanity (Roksandić Vidlička, Galiot 2016.)

medical research, stakeholders, crimes against humanity

European Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice (ECACTJ)