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Kouchner’s stance also set the stage for the United Nations’ adoption of the still more interventionist doctrine of the “responsibility to protect” – a call for outside military force to prevent genocide or widespread human rights abuses – during the secretary-generalship of Kofi Annan.
Grave human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing, and genocide would no longer be permitted.
Given their excessive belief in unfettered markets, they turned a blind eye to palpable abuses, including predatory lending, and denied the existence of an obvious bubble.
International actors such as human-rights organizations can usefully document and publicize rights violations and other abuses of power.
Human-rights abuses and violations of the rule of law should be denounced for what they are – without linking them to culture or religion.
As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.
They know they will enjoy labor and human-rights protections, with abuses prosecuted under the law, but no additional privileges.
By stressing real human-rights abuses in Iran and Arab countries, this lobby group for Israel is suggesting that criticism (“scapegoating”) of Israel is not only wrong but immoral: “Your misguided actions ensure that LGBT people in the Middle East continue to live in hiding under constant threat of death.”
Abuses in one place, no matter how grotesque, should not be used to stifle criticism in another.
The idea, now accepted by the United Nations, of “humanitarian intervention” to save people from extreme human-rights abuses, sounds moral and high-minded.
Thus, for example, last November, the US lifted its six-year embargo on military sales to Indonesia, imposed in 1999 in response to human rights abuses in East Timor.
But others do not always regard such investors favorably: many stand accused of political meddling, polluting the environment, labor abuses, and other unscrupulous practices.
And Western multinationals are hardly immune from charges of such abuses in Africa (often stretching back many years).
He was one of the men responsible for stabbing Myrna, but in Guatemala, human rights abuses begin at a much higher level.
Similarly, the writer and anti-corruption activist Maen Akel has published reports exposing the regime’s abuses.
All of this should be seen in the context of the NCP’s long track record of human-rights abuses and reneging on agreements.
It can enable companies to charge excessive prices for low-quality goods and unreliable services, while facilitating corruption, abuses of power, and waste.
The IDB and the US government must take responsibility for their actions and implement the necessary transparency mechanisms to ensure that such abuses do not recur.
The truth is, that China's real interests are undermined by the firing of missiles off the coast of Taiwan, threatening Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council with dissolution in 1997, thwarting the Dalai Lama by countermanding his selection of the Panchen Lama's reincarnation, selling ballistic missiles to Pakistan and nuclear technology to Iran, saber rattling over the Spratly Islands, or accusing the U.S. of "interfering in China's internal affairs" when it calls attention to trade and human rights abuses.
Such abuses of market power discourage innovation.
The reds will need to distance themselves from Thaksin’s abuses of power as much as the yellows will have to accept some of Thaksin’s policy legacy, particularly grassroots opportunities for jobs, education, and upward mobility.
The establishment of “national security” and “fighting terrorism” as stalking horses for intimidation of journalists who are doing their jobs – exposing government abuses to the light of day – gives the state an even more effective tool to suppress investigative reporting.
And so, despite major advances over the last seven decades – such as the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN’s Responsibility to Protect doctrine – human-rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate and with virtual impunity.
The resulting paralysis has not only permitted massive loss of human life; it has also undermined the credibility of collective security, enabling increasingly flagrant human-rights abuses.
The project’s realization has already led to alleged human rights abuses against poor farmers in the region, who claim that they have been denied access to their land.
The host government agreements open the door for further abuses, without effective redress, throughout the lifetime of the project – up to 70 years.
It’s Not Just Russia’s FaultMOSCOW: Today, many people see Russia as undeserving of Western help, due to the chaos, corruption and defaults of the Yeltsin years, but also because of concerns about authoritarianism and human rights abuses under President Putin.
Many human-rights advocates believe that large-scale abuses – like the killings of an enormous number of noncombatants that took place in Sri Lanka – can be addressed only through criminal prosecution of those with the highest level of responsibility.
Disclosure and acknowledgment of past abuses has also helped prevent attempts to rewrite or distort history – and helps to prevent their repetition in the future.
The Obama administration also has been conspicuously quiet about abuses in Brunei, Laos, and Vietnam, inviting the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party to Washington, DC, last July for a showy and warm visit.
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