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Libya was a recent intervention that violated this principle;Syria has been even more costly, but in its case for what was not done.
It wasn’t long before several states violated the Stability and Growth Pact.
Children living in conflict zones are being targeted for violence on an unprecedented scale, and the elaborate system of UN human-rights provisions designed to protect them is violated with impunity.
On March 15, the UN committee declared that Tanzania had violated its international human-rights obligations.
All emphasized exports; none grossly violated property rights.
Moral values have powerful physiological representations in humans, too, and we feel them strongly when they are violated.
In addition, North Korea violated its treaty obligations and exploded two crude devices.
This minimal basic respect is owed to every individual, and it may not be violated even to achieve valuable long-term goals.
In Liberia, for example, he signed 13 agreements and violated them all.
In response to my direct question concerning whether the NSA’s surveillance activities violated the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by government officials, Baker claimed that the Supreme Court had ruled on the issue in the agency’s favor.
Congress enacted a series of laws – sometimes over President Gerald Ford’s veto – prohibiting the US from offering aid to governments that violated internationally recognized human rights, even if those governments were firm Cold War allies.
When people are prohibited from practicing their religion – for example, by laws that bar worshiping in certain ways – there can be no doubt that their freedom of religion has been violated.
Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister’s actions.
The IAEA’s job is to determine whether a nation has violated its safeguards agreement, and El-Baradei has made it abundantly clear that Iran has.
And language matters here: indignation suggests that some social actors – a government or elites in general – have violated shared norms or moral understandings.
Yet consider her arrest in the context of the large number of companies, US and non-US, that have violated US sanctions against Iran and other countries.
Instead of being helped because they have unsatisfied needs, they are granted remedies because their rights are being violated.
After decades of “constructive engagement” – an approach that has facilitated China’s rise, even as the country has violated international rules and norms – the United States is now seeking active and concrete counter-measures.
Human rights in Russia are often violated simply because people are not aware that they have some particular right.
France also violated the pact’s fiscal criterion in these three years.
When we updated our analysis earlier this year, we concluded that we have already violated four of the nine boundaries.
Moreover, the USTR report asserts, China has happily played the game on its own, and has violated current global rules to achieve its goals.
According to the FDA, 23andMe’s marketing of an unapproved Personal Genome Service (PGS) violated federal law, because, after six years, the firm still had not proved that the tests actually work.
Where courts and police are corrupt, over-burdened and inefficient, basic civil rights will be violated.
Russia has now violated that pledge, not only harming Ukraine but also undermining the international legal framework for preventing nuclear proliferation.
Certainly, the US government’s symbolic punishment of chess legend Bobby Fischer (for playing a match in Belgrade that violated sanctions) provided no relief for the besieged city of Sarajevo.
In desperation, village leaders in Anhui province initiated an experiment that returned land to peasants-a de facto privatization that violated official policy.
In recent months, Chinese aircraft have repeatedly violated Japanese airspace over the East China Sea, and a Chinese naval vessel locked its weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese destroyer and helicopter.
First, it would be a place for minorities who consider their legitimate rights within a state as being violated to seek redress.
Should the Court conclude that the rights of the minority in question were gravely violated it could issue a binding decision demanding that the national state concerned change its laws and practices.
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