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The Rome Statute also stipulates that “official capacity as a Head of State or Government ... shall in no case exempt a person from criminal responsibility under this Statute...”So, there is nothing stopping the Prosecutor of the ICC from launching an investigation against Duterte – and against police officials and vigilante leaders who have collaborated with him in conducting the killings.
Nobody underplays the LTTE’s contribution to the 2009 savagery; but, with the Tigers’ leaders all dead, international attention should now be focused overwhelmingly on holding the government accountable for its failure to accept its responsibility to protect its own people.
But, as the Lakhdar Brahimi Panel concluded a decade ago, after reviewing some of the catastrophic failures of peace processes in the 1990’s, the responsibility of the UN Secretariat must be to tell the UN Security Council what it needs to hear, not what it wants to hear.
The Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman famously argues that the only social responsibility of business is to maximize profits.
But companies, too, have an enormous capacity to do harm, and investments in corporate social responsibility initiatives or community projects do little or nothing to mitigate that harm or offset ethical breaches.
If managers’ business strategies fail to reflect their companies’ social responsibility – or, worse, depend on ignoring it – they must be held accountable, just as rogue doctors are (or should be).
Surely, the British media bear considerable responsibility for the difference.
For Remainers not to make the case for EEA membership, when they had previously been in favor of remaining in the EU, is an astonishing abdication of responsibility.
The US, Europe, and Arab states such as Egypt, along with Russia and the UN, all have a responsibility to assist Abu Mazen.
Asians are slow to acknowledge that power entails international responsibility.
The watchwords were independence and interdependence; sovereignty and mutual responsibility; cooperation and common interests.
He has a big responsibility not to start one.
The G-20 should agree that open-minded education that promotes religious tolerance should be a responsibility of all countries.
The fog of war cannot be allowed to create a fog of responsibility.
In the mid-1990s, when he was serving as the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, massacres occurred in Rwanda and, subsequently, Bosnia, because UN forces failed to fulfill their responsibility to protect.
Annan took no meaningful responsibility for that failure.
Maintaining anonymous charges enables the military authorities to avoid keeping comprehensive records, which in turn allows officials to evade responsibility for transparent reporting of assaults and of prosecutions – and thus not to prosecute sex crime in any serious, systematic way.
Responsibility for this lays largely with the Bush administration which, by terminating the ABM Treaty, not only weakened the international control systems for nuclear weapons, but also sat on its hands when confronted with the NPT’s imminent collapse.
By contrast, any debt beyond 60% of GDP would have to be issued as junior “Red Bonds” under purely national responsibility.
The responsibility extends beyond the organizations themselves.
Hezbollah, which claims it is fighting for Lebanese independence and sovereignty, also bears responsibility for unacceptable aggression, placing the lives of innocent Israelis and Lebanese at stake.
The IMF Is Bleeding Argentina to DeathWhen Argentina's financial crisis first exploded, I pinned the primary responsibility on Argentina itself, rather than on international institutions such as the IMF.
Now, half-a-year later, the balance of responsibility needs to be reconsidered.
As a result, the IMF must increasingly share responsibility and blame for Argentina's havoc.
So, while the immediate fears of 2017 have subsided, and some sense of normality has returned, Europeans can no longer avoid taking responsibility for their own defense.
American companies, he charged, have become softheaded, unfocused, and uncompetitive, in part because business schools are persuading them to embrace a long list of gauzy, feel-good values, such as social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and inclusiveness.
Who would deny that companies have a clear responsibility to earn profits for their shareholders, or that most shareholders invest primarily to make money, not to make the world a better place?
The Friedman-Simons view that businesses’ sole social responsibility is to increase profits assumes that competent, non-corrupt governments both provide the public goods necessary for a prosperous economy and contain the negative externalities, like pollution and climate change, that result from private economic activities.
Companies have a responsibility to their shareholders, but they also have a responsibility to the societies that grant them the right to operate.
In fact, recent evidence suggests the opposite: social and environmental responsibility can be a source of long-term competitive advantage.
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