also Flores v. Southern Peru Copper Corp., 343 F.3d 140, 150 n. 18 (2d Cir.2003) (“Custom ary international law rules proscribing crimes against humanity, including genocide, and war crimes, have been enforceable against individuals since World War II”). d. Cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment The international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda recognize claims for cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Id. at ¶ 62. Numerous federal courts have recognized that customary international law prohibits cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Id. at ¶ 66. Due to their enforcement in the international criminal tribunals, the Court holds that there is a customary international law norm against cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. See Liu Qi, 349 F.Supp.2d at 1325 (<HOLDING>); Jama, 343 F.Supp.2d at 361 (“The law of
recognizing a claim of cruel inhuman and degrading treatment based on alleged sexual abuse holding evidence of past uncharged sexual encounters admissible in child sexual abuse case to show relationship between defendant and alleged victim holding that the proscribed treatment must be based on a persons sex and not their sexual affiliations holding defendants prior conviction for assault related to sexual abuse of a minor even though it did not require an act of sexual abuse because it required intent to commit sexual abuse  and such a mens rea demonstrate the offense was one relating to sexual abuse holding that communication of a venereal disease would constitute cruel and inhuman treatment