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Last July, Chelsea Football Club paid a former footballer £50,000 ($62,000) to agree not to speak of the
abuse
he allegedly endured in the 1970s.
According to a just-released joint investigation by the IndyStar and USA Today, at least 368 gymnasts in the United States have alleged some form of sexual
abuse
over the last 20 years.
As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual
abuse.
Child sexual
abuse
is not a new problem.
Another, more sinister possibility is deliberate
abuse
of these powers to get rid of citizens whose presence in the country is merely inconvenient.
And the country itself has long been split over domestic issues concerning corruption,
abuse
of power, and ethnic minorities.
According to FOM, most Russians (79%) perceive serious hazing and
abuse
of draftees as being widespread.
Five of six respondents who served in the military since the 1990’s were subject to
abuse
as soldiers.
As Milosevic showed again in the 1990s, when he claimed to be defending innocent Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia, justifying military intervention solely on the basis of moral principles leaves too much room for their distortion and
abuse.
The problem is that Kim Kyong-hui is in poor health, owing to years of alcohol
abuse.
Amnesty International recently issued a report detailing the continued systematic
abuse
of fundamental human rights in Iraq.
They are also more likely than older women to die of birth-related complications, and are more prone to
abuse.
Moreover, 81% of married women admitted to being subjected to verbal or physical
abuse
by their husbands.
Drug-trial volunteers should not accept this
abuse
of their participation in research.
And there is some potential for abuse, with expenditures being misclassified as investments.
After all, the use of big data is not confined to governments and corporations; anonymous criminal groups can easily
abuse
the information, too.
So a scandal about spousal
abuse
quickly morphed into one about possible security lapses.
But multilateralism is a global insurance policy against
abuse
of power by any state.
The danger in these operations is not the potential
abuse
of power - not the imposition by an elite of its interests and views on a mass - but the abdication of power, or perhaps one should say the disintegration of power.
We have minded our words carefully in describing this moral transgression, lest we provide a clear record of our fiscal child
abuse.
It has been terrible to learn of the
abuse
that women suffered at the hands of powerful men like Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and Al Franken.
If workplace
abuse
is to be curtailed, business leaders and C-Suite executives need a fresh approach.
It is clear that the checks needed to prevent
abuse
in the Iraqi and Afghan prisons were not in place, and that the Bush Administration had created a climate that made such abuses more likely, if not inevitable.
The ocean has suffered decades of
abuse
and neglect.
Abuse
of it harms everyone, and profits from its use should benefit all as well, implying the need to establish worldwide democratic rights over what is an unarguably universal resource.
The directive contains safeguards to limit potential
abuse
of welfare-state benefits during the first five years, including proof of health insurance coverage and a requirement that sufficient “resources” be shown when a residence permit of up to five years is requested.
The outside world is not helpless in fighting against China’s
abuse
of psychiatry.
Bo Xilai, the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief in Chongqing who was sentenced last year to life in prison for bribery, embezzlement, and
abuse
of power, spent two decades in an area within Shenyang, including in stints as Mayor of Dalian City and Governor of Liaoning Province.
Government efforts to manipulate or block information should be presumed to be an
abuse
of power – one intended to mask many other abuses.
It is time for Europe to catch up, first by establishing its own special prosecutor to investigate attacks on recent elections, but also by tackling other crimes that arise from the
abuse
of data.
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