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The treaty establishing the ICC explicitly states that heads of state do not enjoy immunity.
A written agreement to demobilize more than ten thousand paramilitaries by 2006 has been agreed, and plans are being laid – including a transitional period of limited immunity from arrest so long as the cease-fire holds and the time spent under this agreement will be counted against any eventual prison sentences imposed – to reintegrate them into civilian life.
These latent bacteria can be activated when other factors reduce the body's immunity to infection.
For example, wider use of anti-retroviral treatment in HIV cases can restore immunity and allow TB treatment to act effectively.
From a strictly economic standpoint, academic freedom requires relative immunity to costs, whether stemming from trial-and-error experimentation or from more radical challenges to the status quo.
And, because Governing Council and Executive Board members enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution, misbehavior cannot be punished.
But Iran is playing for time and hoping to reach a zone of immunity.
Its Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks on America by the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, contains many of the features enshrined in the Patriot Act: an overly vague definition of what constitutes terrorism or unlawful acts, immunity from prosecution for law-enforcement or government agents, and expansion of wire-tapping.
But visitors to a malaria infested country, because they lack this immunity, share the risks borne by local children.
In urban areas, where indigenous workers tend to lack immunity to malaria, occasional episodes of the disease result in reduced productivity.
Thus, people who go abroad for advanced education fear the loss of the partial immunity they once enjoyed and tend to find work elsewhere, rather than return home.
This confidence lay in two legal gifts he had bestowed upon himself - an amnesty for his crimes and immunity as a senator-for-life.
The Chilean courts allowed these cases to proceed by stripping Pinochet of his parliamentary immunity and endorsing a legal theory to bypass the amnesty.
For example, there are a few cases of natural immunity to HIV, but we are unable to understand why.
Moreover, governments have a responsibility to establish public goods through legislation, and “herd immunity” is one such good.
Herd immunity describes a level of vaccination coverage that is high enough to prevent a disease from spreading through the population.
Achieving herd immunity is one of the only ways to protect vulnerable members of a community who cannot be vaccinated because they are immunocompromised, or simply too old.
No country can achieve herd immunity – and eventually eradicate preventable infectious diseases – if it allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, as in Greece.
Prosecutors have issued another summons for her to appear in court on March 21; it is still unclear if she will, even though she has now lost her immunity from prosecution.
They used the constant threat and routine application of force and violence to impose slavery, low inward tariffs, and immunity for their colonists.
They enjoy autonomy, full immunity, and, in the view of the governed, obscenely high salaries.
In a society with weakened immunity to extremism – and with an utterly dysfunctional government – the authorities are, perhaps literally, playing with fire.
It is important to note that the Holocaust does not give Israel immunity from criticism, nor can every attack on Israel’s policies be dismissed as anti-Semitism.
The International Court of Justice affirms that heads of state and foreign ministers have “functional immunity” attached to their office.
While some countries’ constitutions – like that of Kenya – deny immunity to a president charged with international crimes, most do not.
Otherwise, the debate over immunity for sitting African leaders risks becoming a debate about securing regime change by external judicial fiat.
Many of its candidates seek office not to work for Ukraine’s betterment, but to gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution.
The eurozone owes its ostensible immunity from financial-market gyrations to major improvements in the peripheral economies’ fundamentals: growth has picked up, and unemployment, though still high, is declining rapidly.
Vitamin A capsules, which help avoid problems affecting eyesight and immunity, cost just another $0.20.
The right should in fact go even further, demanding that the General gives up his senator-for-life post and the immunity that goes with it.
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