Victims
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Addressing the root causes and reducing the impact of displacement should start by heeding victims’ voices – their needs and wishes must be understood and their rights respected.
That stance has translated, most obviously, into repeated vetoes of UN Security Council resolutions aimed at ending a conflict that has already produced tens of thousands of
victims.
Indeed, in the course of trying to report to the university in 2004 what had happened to me in 1983, I found the same pattern of stonewalling
victims
and defending perpetrators.
Compounding the lack of transparency, Yale maintains its own campus police force, to which sex-crime
victims
are encouraged to report their complaints if they insist upon formal documentation.
But
victims
often do not understand that this actually tends to contain potentially embarrassing scandals, by preventing real – that is, accountable – law enforcement from getting involved.
Like the Catholic Church, private universities like Yale can use victims’ shame and isolation to disenfranchise them and to protect the perpetrators.
But I believe that the
victims
themselves have a responsibility.
The convention of taking sex-crime testimony from alleged
victims
behind closed doors, under conditions of anonymity or confidentiality, only serves institutions like universities or the military that are intent on covering up criminal behavior.
As a result, serious crimes can be swept under the rug – at Yale and at every other private US university I have ever visited (public universities are less free to conceal crime data) – in the guise of “protecting the victims.”
But
victims
– whether current students or alumnae – would be well advised to take a deep breath, come forward, and tell their stories out loud.
With the US and the European Union unwilling to slash their farm subsidies, Uganda’s rice experiment deserves wider attention, if only because it shows that Africans aren’t merely passive
victims
of international economic forces.
The Baltic economies are perhaps the most tragic victims, but the damage stretches across Central and Eastern Europe and down into the Balkans.
And the massive exit packages they received – $40 million for Ailes and up to $25 million for O’Reilly – far exceeded the settlements quietly paid to their victims, who were forced out of the company long before their harassers were.
The have stuck by employees who behave in unethical ways, while punishing their
victims.
What should the world do when a large number of people are the
victims
of violence originating from within their own country?
Some are
victims
of harmful cultural practices, like female genital mutilation and child marriage, while others are unable to escape the poverty that grips their families and communities.
When I began in recent years to insist that the traditional silence and anonymity assigned to rape
victims
does not protect them, but only perpetuates a Victorian framework in which rapists attack with impunity and
victims
are asked to carry the “shame,” my argument was met with hostility.
By this logic, one could also reclassify the
victims
of the terror, collectivization, and famine of the 1930’s in order to boost the number of Hitler’s casualties in the USSR.
There are four fundamental ingredients of such man-made disasters: repression of the market, suppression of information, systematic persecution of dissent, and attribution of blame for the disaster to the
victims
(which justifies radicalizing the policies that led to the problem in the first place).
Clinton, by contrast, offered words of support – in English and Spanish – to the victims, and focused on the community and on the need for gun control.
As always, the main
victims
are civilians caught in the crossfire.
In addition to cutting lives short, NCDs exact a massive economic toll on their victims, their families, and their communities, sapping economic productivity and driving up medical costs.
Russia And NATOHAMBURG: The Balkan War, now in its fourth winter, has had many victims: hundreds of thousands of dead, millions of refugees, millions of human beings dehumanized, as well as the credibility of all the organizations created to prevent conflict in Europe: the European Union, the CSCE, the UN and now NATO.
Consider, for example, Colombia’s grim ranking as global leader in the number of
victims
injured by landmines.
According to “Landmine Monitor 2006,” Colombia had 1,110
victims
last year, followed by Cambodia with 875 and Afghanistan with 848.
The proper response to such a debt is to suffer punishment or to pay reparations to the
victims.
Though US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld proposed compensation to the
victims
of abuse at American military hands, it is hard to see this offer as expressing either guilt or shame.
Likewise, in the referendum that ended his 16-year rule in Chile in 1990, General Augusto Pinochet, with thousands of tortured and vanished
victims
in his grisly cupboard, ran on a law-and-order platform and received 44% of the vote.
China remains in the crosshairs of US politicians who believe that American workers are the
victims
of its unfair trading practices.
Indeed, some American financiers were especially harshly criticized for seeming to take the position that they, too, were
victims.
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