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It goes on to establish direct parallels with the abuses committed by American soldiers at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, presenting much of the social science research illustrating the power of social situations to dominate individual dispositions.
I hate its human-rights abuses, assassinations, dirty tricks, and criminal prosecutions to intimidate political opponents.
For more than a quarter of a century, ever since advancing human rights internationally became an explicit and avowed goal of US foreign policy under President Jimmy Carter, American influence played a leading role in mitigating abuses.
Even where the US supported regimes that committed grave violations of rights--or served as an apologist for them because other national interests took precedence--it was often possible for the human rights movement to embarrass Washington by making it the surrogate villain for its clients' abuses.
In the 1980's, this approach focused attention on abuses in conflict-ridden Central America and in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which the Reagan Administration favored in its struggle with America's enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran.
The UN has been useful as a forum for adopting standards, but its machinery for seeking compliance with those standards is weak and has been badly compromised over the years by its failure to address grotesque abuses.
In cases of extreme rights abuses, the chance that an international criminal tribunal will ultimately sit in judgment of those principally responsible is growing, thereby becoming a deterrent to would-be tyrants elsewhere.
But the US worried about the potential for human-rights abuses in China and rejected the Uighurs’ extradition.
In UN Security Council resolutions passed this year on Somalia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and others, the Security Council has appropriately observed that serious human rights abuses pose a threat to peace and security in the regions where those states are situated.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and his human rights commissioner, Louise Arbor, made a good start when they spoke out about the abuses in Zimbabwe this March.
And, while President Barack Obama’s administration did expand cooperation with Cambodia, it also repeatedly raised the issue of human-rights abuses with Hun Sen, including during a tense visit by Obama to Phnom Penh in 2012.
Although other donor countries, such as Canada and France, have at times spoken out against Hun Sen’s abuses, the US government, as the actor wielding the most leverage, has historically led the charge.
Since most government corruption occurs at the county, township and village levels, it usually involves abuses of power by local officials.
The defense of free speech is made no easier by the abuses of the popular press.
We need free media to expose abuses of power.
Eliminating the abuses that accompany capitalism and harnessing it for the benefit of society and human morals still needs to be tackled.
Centralized power has suppressed the country’s diversity and led to appalling abuses.
There are more United Nations resolutions devoted to human rights abuses committed by Israel than to abuses by all other countries combined.
But, in addition to the more visible abuses, German Jews have also begun to talk about more subtle changes in their everyday lives as major German cities like Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Berlin grow more multicultural.
Americans also are more aware of how such attacks are used to justify abuses of their own rights.
Western governments are understandably reluctant to provide lethal aid for Assad’s opponents, given the large number of jihadists among them, and because important elements of the opposition have themselves committed severe abuses.
The only way to monitor these risks and reduce abuses is to develop a harmonized social-security archive that covers all workers within the EU’s borders.
Palestine has more elements of a vigorous civil society than virtually any other country in the Arab world, including an active human rights movement, which initially focused only on Israeli abuses, but that has increasingly criticized violations by the Palestinian Authority itself.
Women like Flores, especially mothers of victims of violence, are constantly at the forefront of human-rights activism on issues like forced disappearance, femicide, and abuses by the military.
They marched weekly for years, forcing public discussion of human rights abuses under the dictatorship.
A more coherent strategy would involve cutting off al-Shabaab’s funding and addressing the grievances – such as human-rights abuses against Somalis, discrimination against Muslims, foreign meddling in Somalia, and corruption – that motivate its recruits.
Though serious, the charges against him – recruiting child soldiers – do not pretend to encompass the range of abuses committed.
“Of course the North should continue to be named and shamed in the United Nations for its human-rights abuses and nuclear misbehavior.
For far too long, Hun Sen and his colleagues have been getting away with violence, human-rights abuses, corruption, and media and electoral manipulation without serious internal or external challenge.
Ultimately, what gives rise to abuses such as occurred at Abu Ghraib is a policy of deliberate ambiguity concerning how to handle detainees.
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