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And in Egypt and Syria, Twitter has blocked citizen journalists from reporting on human-rights abuses, according to journalists whose accounts have been closed.
Intelligence services in democratic contexts usually have oversight mechanisms that serve to limit
abuses
of power, and to guarantee effective action by punishing top officials that fail to do their jobs properly.
To be sure, we should not ignore
abuses
in the immediate post-putsch crackdown; but we should put ourselves in the authorities’ shoes.
In any case, there will be opportunities for the Council to address
abuses
after the immediate furor has subsided.
That activist had been framed by local authorities after he had denounced
abuses
by the local family planning authorities.
The central authorities have recognized the link between abuses, unrest, and the need to develop legal services for preventing the escalation of disputes.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of non-governmental organizations, often with official approval, have represented individuals on bread-and-butter issues, including land seizures, housing demolitions, environmental abuses, labor rights, and health care.
Indeed, journalists often mask their identity to document
abuses.
In Ukraine, there is one more factor working in the EU’s favor: the country’s new leadership is determined to correct previous governments’ corruption, mismanagement, and
abuses.
He finds that, contrary to some expectations, refugee flows are driven largely by political terror and human rights abuses, not economic forces.
We expect a free press to investigate the exercise of power and bring
abuses
to light.
The media are still needed to protect us against
abuses
of state power; but we need the state to protect us from
abuses
of media power.
By giving the green light to the Optional Protocol to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the Council has established an important mechanism to expose
abuses
that are typically linked to poverty, discrimination, and neglect, and that victims frequently endure in silence and helplessness.
This procedure may seem opaque, but by lodging a complaint under the Protocol’s provisions, victims will now be able to bring to the surface
abuses
that their governments inflict, fail to stop, ignore, or do not redress.
A system based on sharia (Islamic law) has been imposed, human-rights
abuses
are legion, and cross-border movement of weapons and militants has undermined the security of Libya’s neighbors.
The most recent decision of the regional tribunal, in mid-December, overturned a 1979 Brazilian amnesty law protecting military officials from prosecution for
abuses
committed during the country’s 21-year military dictatorship.
Similar
abuses
were committed by Peru’s security services during the 1990’s – crimes for which former President Alberto Fujimori is now paying.
The third component is sometimes called “Sunni nationalist,” but that phrase is a misnomer, because this group’s members are less concerned with Iraq as a nation than with Sunni domination of post-Hussein Iraq and responding to what they see as personal injustices or
abuses.
This began to change as societies became more democratic and labor unions and other groups mobilized against capitalism’s perceived
abuses.
The international community could facilitate agreement by insisting on the exclusion of people from any side who, through a fair, open, and contested process, are found responsible for serious
abuses.
The BBC collated testimony in 2010 from nine prisoners confirming that human-rights
abuses
continued at Bagram.
Prisoners were still being subjected at the time to freezing temperatures, sleep deprivation, and “other abuses.”
For several other violators - such as China, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia - the CHR couldn't even muster the will to put their
abuses
on its agenda.
Leaders in the information technology sector, especially in Europe, have been warning of the
abuses
by Facebook (and other portals) for years.
Sarah Spiekermann, a professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), and Chair of its Institute for Management Information Systems, is another pioneer of online privacy who has long warned about the type of
abuses
seen with Facebook.
After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.
Second, high finance provides an arena to curb the worst
abuses
by managers of large corporations.
In a recent report, the monitoring group Human Rights Watch documents repeated cases of individuals and communities affected by projects financed by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation who have stood up to defend their rights, only to suffer an array of
abuses
for doing so.
This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to
abuses
against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
Together with the
abuses
of human rights under his administration, the Great Recession – the predictable (and predicted) consequence of his economic policies – did as much to weaken America’s soft power as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did to weaken the credibility of its military power.
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