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Remembering Sri Lanka’s Killing FieldsNEW YORK – One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world’s collective conscience.
My wish is that humanity’s conscience will be there to hear her address in New York City, and that, because she is heard, the alarm she raises will not have the ghastly resonance of a death knell.
In such democracies without democrats, "human rights" are more problematic to discuss than procedural formalities, because they are not thought of as "rights" in the legal sense, but merely as pangs of conscience, or else as gifts to be exchanged for something else of value.
Many NGO's claim to act as a "global conscience," representing broad public interests beyond the purview of individual states.
So a civilized China is emerging, just as a civilized Eastern Europe once emerged, from the hearts and minds of prisoners of conscience, of people like Liu Xiaobo.
Until then, Americans need to ask themselves what has coarsened in the national conscience between 1963 and today.
As a man with a conscience, having reflected upon his leadership from outside the Kremlin, Gorbachev is eager to fix those calamities for which he feels responsible.
But, ultimately, there is no substitute for social conscience and concerted action.
We need the liberal conscience, but without the chronic budget deficits.
In his novel Heart of Darkness, set in the DRC, Joseph Conrad wrote about what he later described as “the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.”
The vote was an assault on freedom of religion that flies in the face of Article 53 of the Polish Constitution, which states that “Freedom of conscience and religion shall be ensured to everyone” and specifies that the “performing of rites” is protected.
But on other issues, Ban has failed to live up to the critically important precedent set by his predecessor as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who transformed the position to promote human rights and assumed the role of the "world's conscience" when necessary.
Indeed, here Chinese Twitter users lead the world, using it for everything from social resistance, civic investigation, and monitoring public opinion, to creating black satire, “organizing without organizations” in the Guangdong anti-incineration movement, and mailing postcards to prisoners of conscience.
Moreover, unlike America, Western Europe must live with the uneasy conscience stirred by immigrants whose very presence serves as a reminder of a history of colonialism.
In fact, even economists in communist dictatorships could proffer their best technical advice with a comparatively clean conscience, because they were convinced that introducing more market-mediated outcomes would inject efficiency into planned economies and increase the sphere of individual freedom.
His words were eloquent and resonated with people of conscience throughout Europe.
Here is an attractive, intelligent young leader of the Left with a belief in social solidarity and a strong social conscience -- but with none of the paranoia so evident in Europe about global competition and American domination and very little interest in the massive bureaucratic structures of trans-national integration which in Europe have become identified with left-wing ideals.
As one saying goes, "There is not want of conscience in Chinese, but there is want of courage."
Punishment is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
The great failure of our democratic conscience is in not recognizing this.
The theatre of politics makes permanent demands on us all, as dramatists, actors, and audience – on our common sense, our moderation, our responsibility, our good taste, and our conscience.
So have the Gnomes of Zurich developed a social conscience?
Thereafter, a good Confucian could, with untroubled conscience, scorn the Buddhist renunciation of the world.
So I know that no theory, no amount of analysis, can free a politician from bouts of soul-searching, from troubling his or her conscience with questions about what is and what is not honest when confronting political choices.
It enshrines the rights to a fair trial, privacy, free expression and association, and freedom of thought in religion and conscience.
Those who disconnect themselves from the fate of others, who act without conscience or a sense of right and wrong, and who spurn ordinary human decency have no place running organizations or sitting on company boards.
The international community’s shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world.
All these rationales for CSR suggest that it should be left to each corporation to determine, just as PSR leaves altruism to each individual’s conscience and sense of what needs supporting.
And that is why British Tories, who once might have held less than friendly views of the Jewish people, can now in good conscience condemn Labour politicians as anti-Semites.
But, despite almost half a century of membership in the Council of Europe – ostensibly a guardian of human rights, including freedom of speech and conscience – Turkey still punishes a crime against national honor any suggestion that the Armenian genocide is an historic truth.
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