Abuses
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Second, the G20 must crack down on economic
abuses
that weaken states and markets, and erode public trust.
Such a change would be doubly beneficial: it would both enhance trade and hold to account people responsible for egregious human-rights
abuses.
I have a different interpretation: it is testimony to the importance of a free press, which may not stop but can curtail
abuses.
Auditing is intended to put limits on potential
abuses.
While we will never be able to prevent all abuses, we can get the incentives right.
But even as evidence for such
abuses
becomes apparent, new venues for abuse are repeatedly opened up - take the US repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking.
To be sure, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines may prefer a US president who does not trouble himself to criticize their governments’ human-rights abuses, corruption, or constitutional shenanigans.
It even drew praise from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia for its special provisions for women and children survivors of human rights abuses, and for those targeted for their perceived sexual orientation.
As a result, in venues like the United Nations, China enjoys a degree of immunity from criticism for its egregious human rights abuses, as well as for its massive military build-up, one that is unparalleled in recent experience.
For years, Tuskegee has been a byword for ethical
abuses
in scientific research – to the extent that President Bill Clinton apologized to its surviving “subjects.”
The envoys would be senior diplomats and politicians who could tap the highest levels of government to challenge
abuses
of international law, cut red tape, and apply pressure on warring parties to agree to local ceasefires.
So far, security and law enforcement have been utterly inadequate to deal with past
abuses.
While US Chief Administrator Paul Bremer recently vested authority in a number of judges, their powers are extremely limited, and apply only to present violations, not the sustained
abuses
of human rights that defined Saddam's regime.
Competition among educational institutions is very welcome here, even though it may produce some
abuses
or outright fraud.
These
abuses
violate both US and international law.
On a global scale, this complex and interdependent world needs an organization of states and structures of governance oriented towards responsible dialogue, the aim being to mitigate
abuses
of power and defend global public assets.
For example, late last year, the US Congress imposed sanctions against Russian officials implicated in human-rights abuses, prompting Russia to institute a ban on adoptions by American families.
But Liu also engaged in massive
abuses
of power – including accepting more than $10 million in bribes by the time he was arrested in 2011 – that resulted in significant economic losses for the state.
In order to reverse these trends, China needs to implement democratic reforms aimed at checking
abuses
of power.
In 1979, he was sentenced to a five-year prison term for his activities in the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted, an offshoot of Charter 77 that monitored human-rights
abuses
and persecution in Czechoslovakia.
While he continued to enjoy respect and admiration abroad, if only for continuing his fight against human-right
abuses
around the world, his popularity at home was shaken.
When, as president, he supported the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 or the coming invasion of Iraq in 2003, he did not talk about geo-political or strategic objectives but about the need to stop human-rights
abuses
by brutal dictators.
In many of these countries, the trade in natural resources motivates, funds, and prolongs conflict and egregious human-rights
abuses.
Natural resources, such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold – all minerals that have been linked in some parts of the world to conflict and human-rights
abuses
– are found in our jewelry, cars, mobile phones, games consoles, medical equipment, and countless other everyday products.
There is clear consumer demand for information that will help buyers make sure that their purchases do not implicate them in appalling
abuses.
More than 80% made no mention on their Web sites of what they had done to avoid funding conflict or human rights
abuses.
But funding conflict and human-rights
abuses
is not an acceptable cost of doing business.
In Israel, the educated Jewish activists who criticize Israeli
abuses
against Palestinians, the peaceniks who believe that negotiation is better than violence and that even Arabs have rights, are called, with a knowing sneer, “beautiful souls.”
Treating foreign and domestic firms the same with respect to competitive practices would stop these
abuses.
With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the
abuses
of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.
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