Impunity
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It is to deliver a form of decentralized punishment that makes it very costly for dictatorial regimes to violate other people’s rights with
impunity
and to create pliant cadres of henchmen who “only follow orders,” as if that exempted them from moral responsibility.
The Mexican political class simply refuses to combat corruption and
impunity.
After all, their political
impunity
stands in sharp contrast not only to the United States, where officials are at least accountable to Congress, but also to China, where one might be excused for thinking that officials are less accountable than their European counterparts.
As a result, China’s leaders could fail to honor the spirit or even the explicit terms of their commitments with
impunity.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread
impunity
for crimes of violence against women.
This will require strengthening the rule of law and ending the prevailing culture of
impunity.
Impunity, in turn, erodes the credibility of the country’s institutions, including public hospitals and clinics.
A third factor that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the
impunity
long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
Let him go where we can't get at him, but with no guarantee of
impunity
if his actions or fate bring him to a place where justice can be done.
Allowing opium traffickers to operate with
impunity
gives them a free hand to raise money to pay for the arms and fighters battling the Afghan army and NATO forces.
In a region long inured to
impunity
among political and economic elites, this amounts to a tectonic shift.
In fact, Germany breaks rules with impunity, changes them to suit its needs, or even invents them at will.
The leaders of the Americas now have an opportunity to challenge Maduro’s
impunity
and restore regional stability and security.
If Duterte and his coterie sense they can act with impunity, the killings will only escalate.
The lesson is clear: when charges are made anonymously, no one takes them as seriously as charges brought in public, resulting in institutionalized
impunity
for sexual predators.
Behind the formal structures of a once-functioning democracy is a political system run by corporate interests with the cynical aims of cutting taxes on the rich, selling weapons, and polluting with
impunity.
Another epidemic afflicting African women is violence, all too often perpetrated with
impunity.
Christians blame the Muslim Brotherhood not only for allowing Muslim Egyptians to attack them with impunity, but also for permitting – and delivering – incendiary anti-Christian rhetoric.
Blank-check authorization by a geopolitically challenged commander-in-chief means that the Pentagon is now operating not just without oversight, but also with
impunity.
Both countries are now not only actively undermining the rules-based trading system; they seem to be proving that, as long as a country is powerful enough, it can flout shared rules and norms with
impunity.
When governments can repress those journalists with impunity, and when others compromise their supposed commitment to basic human rights for political or partisan goals, the truth remains hidden, with serious consequences.
Around the world, many women are targeted because of their sexuality: they are genitally mutilated, married off as children, raped with impunity, stoned for “fornication” and other sexual offenses, and told that their desire makes them sinful and worthy of abuse.
When I began in recent years to insist that the traditional silence and anonymity assigned to rape victims does not protect them, but only perpetuates a Victorian framework in which rapists attack with
impunity
and victims are asked to carry the “shame,” my argument was met with hostility.
From Mexico and Brazil to Pakistan and Somalia, journalists are often murdered with
impunity.
Health-care settings in the developing world often face even steeper challenges, such as lack of technical capacity among hospital management, staff shortages, poor training, low-quality medicines, and relative
impunity
for medical malpractice.
Disintegration could also take a less extreme but more insidious form if governments choose to ignore EU rules with
impunity.
But the very fact that members of the old elite can be investigated and questioned is undeniable progress in a country where they have long enjoyed
impunity.
But without the ICTY,
impunity
would have reigned for the murderers of Srebrenica and of less-renowned scenes of war crimes.
The court – with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws – is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where
impunity
has long been the rule.
Above all, the West’s effective crackdown on domestic extremism has tended to drive would-be terrorists – now often based in remote parts of the world, where they hope to operate with
impunity
– to higher levels of technical sophistication.
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