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In this sense, the silence could be another example of the international community averting its gaze from African suffering, as it has done so often in the past, most notably in Rwanda in 1994.
Ending Sexual Harassment and Abuse at the UNGENEVA – Around the world, brave women (and some men) have been breaking the silence surrounding sexual harassment and abuse committed by those in positions of power.
No, silence is a bad idea.
And, in strategic terms, the rest is silence – which applies also to Europe.
The United Nations Security Council should now exercise its Chapter VII authority to mandate an independent team of international experts that can assess the evidence of crimes committed in Abyei and preserve the testimony of witnesses before the Sudanese Government can silence them.
Although everyone knew what happened, no one dared publish details of the inflated profits or the tip-off until we broke the silence.
Their silence on Iraq reflected their apprehension about unwanted alternatives: either support the US plan and risk encouraging Kurdish moves toward an independent state, or oppose the Americans and jeopardize a critical strategic relationship.
Conservatives want not only to silence the reformers, but to provoke confrontation.
There has been one notable exception to the pattern of private-sector silence.
Politicians are cowed into silence if all opposition is branded as anti-democratic.
It is offering small beer, certainly not enough to buy the silence of business and public opinion.
Nothing made Veil angrier than the refrain about the Holocaust being unspeakable, which was supposed to explain why its survivors, upon returning home, retreated into silence.
This silence gives a hideous signal.
In that Internet world, no authority has the ability to silence or satisfy them.
With modern technology, Indonesian Muslims can see clearly the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, the disastrous results of the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and America’s silence when Lebanon was bombed in July 2006.
The developed world’s silence suggests that it takes the mistreatment of black and brown women by black and brown men for granted, rather than holding all people to one standard of justice.
Finally, all countries likely have been shortsighted, imagining that silence will gain them commercial favors from China.
But that silence merely allows China to exploit the community of nations.
The world economy has paid dearly for complicity with and silence about the economic policies of the last 15 years, which have culminated in the deepest and most dangerous recession since the 1930’s.
But our uncritical silence doesn’t seem to have accomplished that much either."
When he died, the Polish Parliament observed a minute of silence.
The atmosphere is stilted and muffled, with workers moving around in silence and guards everywhere.
Imprisonment is another favorite way for autocratic regimes to silence journalists who dare to speak truth to power.
Both sides are adamant: the opposition is determined to bring down a regime that it views as illegitimate, sectarian, corrupt, tyrannical, and stained with blood, while the regime’s hard-line core believes that by persevering it will ultimately silence the opposition, whereas any concession would jeopardize its very existence.
His silence clearly implies consent to the actions of the prosecutors.
The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital ControlsNEW YORK – When French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the reins as host of this year’s G-20 summit, to be held in Cannes on November 3-4, he called on the International Monetary Fund to develop an enforceable “code of conduct” for the use of capital controls (or capital-account regulations, as we prefer to call them) in the world economy.
Countries opposed to a free press are increasingly using Interpol’s “wanted person” alerts to target and silence journalists who have fled.
Interpol’s members include some of the world’s most oppressive governments, whose leaders routinely misuse their own criminal justice systems to silence free speech and political opposition.
Stop Killing the MessengerNEW YORK – What does it cost to silence a muckraking reporter?
In fact, most Mexican journalists can instinctively identify “zones of silence” where democracy and transparency perish.
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