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The great irony is that Putin is now seeking to do in Ukraine exactly what Assad has done so successfully: portray a legitimate political opposition as a gang of thugs and terrorists, while relying on provocations and lies to turn non-violent protest into violent attacks that then justify an armed response.
This has led the popular press to howl that we now live in a costly, bureaucratic, and inefficient “human rights culture” – a charge with profound political resonance.
The fact is that any piece of legislation purporting to embody human rights is entirely vulnerable to a political system in which parliament is supreme.
All this and not one mention of “human rights” – an absence that reflects the political sensitivity of human rights in Britain today, and that tacitly acknowledges that when the stakes are high, the Human Rights Act cannot be relied upon.
For years, Iran has been pursuing both a nuclear program and the development of long-range missiles, which points to only one conclusion: the country’s leaders are intent on building nuclear weapons, or at least on reaching the technological threshold beyond which only a single political decision is required to achieve that end.
An Iran armed with nuclear weapons (or one political decision away from possessing them) would drastically alter the Middle East’s strategic balance.
Investment in Kenya’s education system, along with economic reforms, and (until recently) relative political stability has undoubtedly helped the economy, which has grown by around 4-5% annually over the past decade, following long periods of stagnation.
By introducing and implementing fairness and transparency to public-sector recruitment, and ensuring that appointments are based on talent, not ethnic or family connections, Kenyans may become less fearful about their political leaders’ origins.
Macron’s Vital MessageMADRID – When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France last year, he was presented as a kind of European savior, a wunderkind who had burst onto the French political scene just in the nick of time.
But, barring some unforeseen development, it’s possible that he will remain the country’s most popular political figure until he leaves office.
Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent resistance by Chinese peasants.
China's government must acknowledge that deep income inequality and rural poverty is no longer exclusively an economic problem, but threatens social peace and political stability.
Unless China commits to greater political openness, allowing the poor and disadvantaged to voice their concerns, represent themselves, and monitor policy implementation, it will continue to be jeopardized by a false and perilous prosperity.
For these and many other reasons, rebuilding Afghanistan's economy will require not only economic reconstruction but an effort to reinvent the country's political and cultural institutions.
Particular attention should be given to elementary schools and libraries outside of cities.Afghanistan poses particular difficulties in reconstruction, as it is not a society with a strong political center.
Expatriate involvement will also likely support the rights of women to participate fully and legally in economic and political life, as was the case before 1978.
In Finland, Estonia, and throughout Europe, we are seeing a deeply worrying trend, with traditional values and principles being compromised by political maneuvering and money.
Soon, they perverted psychiatry to serve their own interests, using it to “cure” political dissidents.
According to a recent survey, a majority of Russians believes that acquiring wealth requires criminal activity and political connections.
Aside from the relatively small middle class and the even smaller business and intellectual elite, most Russians neither take risks to become entrepreneurs nor favor economic and political liberalization.
Perhaps more importantly, it is hard to fight corruption without political reform, media freedom, and a vibrant civil society.
Remarkably, Medvedev is not wary of speaking about political liberalization.
One lever that the West has is to condition membership on political and economic liberalization.
This document is binding on both of us as signatories, on our respective political parties, and on their democratically elected representatives.
Austria takes pride in its international solidarity with the victims of political repression, war, and expulsion.
It is also why the rare enforcement of human rights law that we do see tends to conform to the enforcing nation's political interests.
For example, the U.S. government intervenes in Haiti to avoid a flood of refugees and imposes sanctions on Cuba because of domestic political benefits.
The IMF seems to have lent Greece such a large amount for political reasons.
Desmon Lachman, a former deputy director of the IMF’s policy department, has called the institution a slush fund, abused by its political masters during the Greek crisis.
Humanitarian crises often produce a surge in political will; the needless suffering of others, and especially of children, pushes the international community to dedicate money and energy to ameliorating the misery.
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