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Luis Almagro, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS), has called its member states’ attention to the Venezuelan regime’s grave constitutional and human-rights violations.
But allowing ethnic Chinese to be harassed, intimidated, or punished for exercising their civil and political rights – say, by making political donations or speaking out on issues that matter to them, including those related to China – would be a grave injustice.
Russia’s Economic ImperialismRussia’s use of natural gas to exert economic and political pressure on Ukraine has caused grave concern in the West.
Despite his grave failings as IAEA chief before 1991, Blix once again came to lead UN disarmament inspectors, this time in tandem with another Swede, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus.
The first step is to recognize how grave the populist threat really is.
How surprised should we be that, even after the Great Recession cast grave doubt on the rational-market theories so dominant a decade ago, the top tier of academic economics remains largely unchanged?
From America’s point of view, China’s rapidly growing military power and lack of transparency have become grave concerns.
President Bush’s warning that “the transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action,” is meant to deter this outcome.
Of course, to reduce Obama to the color of his skin is a grave oversimplification, even if he has been keen to emphasize his “black roots.”
It would be a grave mistake to think that they represent Europe’s “end of history.”
One area in grave need of reform is the labor market.
The greatest risk that we run is erosion of the Security Council’s credibility, and, with it, a diminishing capacity to confront grave threats to peace.
When a network of human traffickers turns the Mediterranean into a mass grave, Europe cannot simply turn away.
The military-run referendum will not bring democracy to Burma, nor will it help the Burmese people, who now are suffering not only from the authoritarian regime and poverty, but also from a grave natural disaster and its totally inept handling by the cynical generals.
Because those nations - among the poorest in Africa - have an unresolved border dispute that led to a 1998-2000 war in which tens of thousand died on both sides and hostilities in the area continue, their involvement, by proxy, in the Somali civil war may have grave implications for the entire Horn of Africa.
That statistic alone should be a cause for grave concern to everyone in the industry.
It is obvious that politicians and bankers made grave errors that contributed to the current crisis.
Why is this menace a matter of grave concern in Japan today, and a threat worth worrying about in the US?
The second reason that Bush’s reelection is likely to hurt the human rights cause is that it constitutes an endorsement by the majority of Americans of an administration that is responsible for grave human rights abuses.
In a recent article, Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace bemoans that, “India’s foreign-policy establishment is in the process of disinterring a long-dead grand strategy from its Cold War grave.”
No Third Way to the MarketSAN FRANCISCO - Today, the "market" is said to be either utterly triumphant or a grave threat.
In this scenario, Pakistani generals, instead of continuing to sponsor Afghan Pashtun militant groups (like the Taliban and their allies like the Haqqani network), would be compelled to fend off a potentially grave threat to Pakistan’s unity.
This is not only a serious medical issue; it is also a grave moral problem, one that those of us who work with the poor confront every day.
Even if jobs are available, the environmental pressure created by ever-more populated cities will pose a grave threat.
After citing the principle of non-interference by one member state in the internal affairs of another, the document goes on to declare “the right of the Union to intervene in a member state pursuant to a decision of the assembly in respect of grave circumstances, namely war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.”
A negotiated transition must include a poverty-eradication program, as well as a law on transitional justice and national reconciliation that brings to justice those who have committed grave violations of human rights and other crimes, including by banning them from any political activity.
It is a sign of global warming – and a grave warning sign for us all.
But EU member governments’ behavior during the past few months raises grave doubts about whether they see things this way.
The post-modern realities of our grave present make a mockery of modernity.
Inaction in Rio would be disastrous, but a single international agreement would be a grave mistake.
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