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These missing persons disappeared after the conflict, on NATO’s and the United Nations’ watch.
If these persons were employed to the extent such workers are employed in America--through liberalization of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
Indicting, prosecuting, convicting, and jailing those who carry out such destruction might prove to be a deterrent to others – similar to what is required to stop violence against persons.
Meanwhile, the already-hazy lines between asylum-seekers, refugees, displaced persons, and purely economic migrants are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish at all.
Not so long ago, in the immediate postwar years, Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors fled from the murderous anti-Semitism of their Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, or Romanian neighbors to the safety of displaced persons camps in, of all places, Germany.
There is an obvious difference between persons engaged in an armed conflict, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, and terrorist suspects arrested outside of armed conflict.
There are now more than two million Syrian refugees in bordering countries and more than four million displaced persons inside Syria.
First, the political reality is that society treats corporations as if they were persons, which is often also a legal reality for many purposes.
The Nobel bylaws do not allow splitting a prize into more than three parts, thereby excluding discoveries that entailed work by more than three researchers, or omitting key persons who equally deserved to share in the honor.
According to Smith,“A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors, and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine, that pain must be more agonizing, and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank, than to those of meaner stations...”We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke “mirror neurons”).
To date, 19 “sectorial” conventions on terrorism have been signed, covering terrorist bombings, nuclear terrorism, the financing of terrorism, acts against air and maritime security, and acts against internationally protected persons.
Providing better protection to the world’s most vulnerable persons against devastating hazards is not only conceivable – it is achievable.
The result has been a clear case of collective punishment in one of the most densely populated places on earth, with 3,823 persons per square kilometer.
Specifically, they pledged to cooperate in order “to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees, and of displaced persons.”
Many were stripped of their responsibilities, and the persons involved were discredited.
It requires persons of great courage to become judges, and strong authorities to enforce their judgments.
After the Dayton Agreement of Bosnia an International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) was established to clarify what had happened to the more than 20,000 persons missing from the civil war in Bosnia.
Try to imagine what will happen: at each European embassy, someone will be appointed to screen the list, name by name, and assess whether and to what extent the persons in question behave freely or speak out freely in public, to what extent they criticize the regime, or even whether they are former political prisoners.
Perhaps only one in five persons are integrated into the global economy.
Since the early part of the twentieth century – and, most clearly, since John Paul II’s papacy (1978-2005) – the traditional dominance of Italy and other European countries in the locations of blessed persons has waned.
As part of this process, Benedict XVI dramatically shortened the number of years that blessed persons had to wait to graduate from beatification to sainthood.
With respect to competition with Protestants, the key feature of the last two popes is the shift in the geographical distribution of blessed persons away from the traditional dominance of Europe.
These shares compare with the mere handfuls of blessed persons from these regions who were named by previous popes.
Similarly, at the G7’s summit in Japan in May, the leaders of the world’s major advanced economies pledged to “increase global assistance to meet immediate and long-term needs of refugees and other displaced persons as well as their host communities.”
Until now, Parfit, who is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, had written only one book, Reasons and Persons, which appeared in 1984, to great acclaim.
Colombian displaced persons and Venezuela's middle class are fleeing to Miami.
The Convention, concluded in 1951, was originally limited to persons within Europe fleeing events before that date.
It is no coincidence, for example, that the law treats corporations as persons.
It should dispatch an eminent persons’ group of senior African and other international leaders to Zimbabwe, as well as peace monitors to ensure that the government complies with these demands.
But this group’s members are usually not among the most successful entrepreneurs; none, for example, has been included in the annual Forbes list of the ten richest persons in China.
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