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Former Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo warned an American official in 2010 that revising the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement could soon become a “defining issue” in South Korea-US relations, and that it was already attracting “significant amounts of negative press attention.”
As the only international actor in direct dialogue with both Burma's generals and Suu Kyi, the UN is in a position to press for a genuine process of national reconciliation.
That is why these countries must press for quotas and management reforms in multilateral institutions and inject new agendas, new ideas, and new thinking into the global arena.
The key to resolving this dilemma will be to press for local compromises that involve Sunnis in the political process, and to step up the rate of training of Iraqis to manage their own security.
It is no surprise that corrupt regimes routinely clamp down on the press, trade unions, and on professional associations.
If we are serious about building resilience, we need to press ahead with tough systemic changes that address how we produce and consume energy and finance our economies.
Before 2000, there was an influential, independent press and a parliament loyal to the president, but still independent.
If there is no independent press able to caution against mistakes and a parliament that can do the same, then the mistakes will eventually manifest themselves on the streets.
But when we stifle, step by step, all that remains of a free press, when even small television channels that provide uncensored information seem dangerous, we are keeping the lid firmly on the pot.
Now that he has weakened Hungary’s constitutional court and free press, he wants to undermine critical thinking itself.
Armed soldiers now sit in newsrooms, vetting the galleys before they go off to press.
In the long run, however, the answer to Maoist totalitarianism is greater and more inclusive democracy, a vibrant free press, and civil liberties.
Moreover, if China, India, and the ASEAN states take the lead in promoting a just resolution for the people of Burma/Myanmar, or if China proves more willing to press North Korea on nuclear weapons, these states will demonstrate that a world with multiple leading stakeholders can be safer than a world led by a single superpower.
The crackdown on freedom of the press, the rule of law, and electoral processes in Venezuela – as reported by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and, most recently, in a damning, 300-page report by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission – has been steadily worsening.
Fortunately, a wary press corps, powerful governments, and nervous competitors watch its every move, hoping the company to fight its many temptations.
The Western press has, up until now, often portrayed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s term in office as a time of liberalization, a period when the Russian government is beginning to loosen its authoritarian grip on society.
And Khutoskoi, a leading Moscow-based anti-fascist activist, would organize security at anti-fascist concerts, as well as at Markelov’s press conferences.
A mere statement by the US that it has no intention to press this military advantage will not assuage China’s fears.
Health professionals took the lead in a campaign to press the government – through the mechanisms of direct democracy – to shift its focus from arresting and punishing drug users toward public-health policies that are based on scientific evidence of what works.
To press on with this is now more vital than ever - and more difficult.
A cursory glance at the Japanese press, or even the kind of books piled high in Japanese bookstores, shows just how frightened the Japanese are.
Mugabe and his henchmen have stashed millions of dollars abroad in the past year according to plausible press accounts.
Recent press reports have highlighted lapses in supervision, particularly in and around the Federal Reserve Bank of New York – one of 12 regional banks in the Fed System, which also has a Board of Governors in Washington, DC.
The Alliance is working hard to consolidate Moldova’s democracy, the rule of law, and economic reform, as well as to press ahead with European integration.
Moreover, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2011, press freedom in Western Europe has suffered as a result of new restrictions and pressures.
To this end, PACE should step in to press the Council’s member governments.
The time has come for all concerned – journalists, civil-society groups, political parties, and citizens – to stand up for press freedom.
Hu Shuli belongs to the same generation: the journalist whom the Economist magazine calls "China's most dangerous woman," moved from her first job, with the Party press, to editing Caijng , a business magazine that runs stories on corruption, exposing businessmen and public officials.
It would be a mistake, however, to interpret these experiments with a free press as signs that democracy in China is near.
"Elections are of little use if democratically elected governments limit the freedom of the press and the independence of the judiciary."
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