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Mired in corruption, poverty, and hopelessness, it is stained by the highest rates of AIDS infections anywhere in Europe and by startling rates of drug
abuse.
As we struggled, continued secrecy allowed an explosion of corruption and
abuse
of office.
So property rights rely on courts and legal enforcement, and markets depend on regulators to rein in
abuse
and fix market failures.
Conversely, deep poverty, abuse, neglect, and exposure to violence in early childhood can all lead to toxic stress.
The greatest harm comes from the cumulative burden of multiple risk factors, including neglect, abuse, parental substance
abuse
or mental illness, and exposure to violence.
The editor and deputy editors of Beijing News, a relatively new tabloid with a national reputation for exposing corruption and official abuse, were fired.
People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and provoke adjournments – indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.
Stefano Quintarelli, one of Europe’s top IT experts and a leading advocate for online privacy (and, until recently, a member of the Italian Parliament), has been a persistent and prophetic critic of Facebook’s
abuse
of its market position and misuse of online personal data.
For Quintarelli, Cambridge Analytica’s
abuse
of data acquired from Facebook was an inevitable consequence of Facebook’s irresponsible business model.
But laws and policies alone are not sufficient to protect women from horrific domestic
abuse.
For example, if family members beat or
abuse
a woman, she has few options.
The second-largest source of violence is the
abuse
of children, 80% of which is inflicted by parents.
The definition of what constitutes child
abuse
varies by culture; but about 15% of children suffer each month from what the UN calls severe physical punishment.
Studies in Washington State show that home visits from trained staff can reduce child abuse, improve children’s quality of life and physical and mental health, and reduce child-welfare and litigation costs.
Lack of accountability has both encouraged corruption and fed perceptions that
abuse
remains unpunished.
China was supposed to show gratitude and deference to the US for the right to catch up from 150 years of
abuse
by Western imperial powers and Japan.
It became increasingly faddish in the 1990’s, but mostly as a term of
abuse.
The biggest threats to the legal wildlife trade are poaching, smuggling, improper trade permitting, and animal abuse, all of which must be addressed by regulators and rural community stakeholders at the local level.
Politicians who support torture never have to waterboard, starve, or physically
abuse
prisoners personally.
As long as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration continues to
abuse
its dominant position as creditor-in-chief to advance its narrow interests, the eurozone cannot thrive – and may not survive.
Meetings with foreign governments on human rights--during which information is provided on political cases--have been postponed and visits by monitors, including one from the World Psychiatric Association to investigate charges of psychiatric abuse, are on hold.
That is as cynical and grotesque an
abuse
of memory as anything the PiS has concocted.
As a result, something remarkable for a former Soviet country informs the habits of those who are demanding that their liberties be preserved: a deep respect for the rule of law, which is the ultimate check on
abuse
of power.
While Trump’s disavowal of international trade rules and norms has received ample attention, China’s own
abuse
of those norms has gone unnoticed.
NATO’s actions in Kosovo followed dramatic and systematic
abuse
of human rights, culminating in ethnic cleansing on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II.
Educated girls marry later, and are less susceptible to
abuse
by older men.
But there is one issue in the news that has not yet received sufficient attention in boardrooms: child sexual
abuse.
In the United Kingdom, the last month has brought harrowing reports about child
abuse
in youth soccer teams, where promising young athletes attempt to play their way to the professional level.
After all, many clubs had previously heard allegations of sexual
abuse
of young players, but had chosen to ignore them or cover them up, at times even doling out hush money to the victims – all for the sake of protecting their own reputations.
Crewe Alexandra’s board, for example, actively discussed sexual
abuse
allegations against a coach, Barry Bennell, in the late 1980s, but decided not to report him to the police or even to fire him.
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