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The European Commission has initiated “infringement proceedings” against Poland in response to the PiS’s
violations
of judicial independence, and that could pave the way for the European Court of Justice to suspend the law’s validity until the matter is considered.
Pointing out their
violations
of the constitution and protesting make sense only to the extent that they bring the opposition closer to electoral victory.
Indeed, Macri has announced that, in response to human rights
violations
in Venezuela, he will invoke the so-called “democratic clause” in the statutes of Mercosur, which could lead to Venezuela’s suspension from the regional trading bloc.
Its own report, Our Land, Our Lives,indicates that, since 2008, communities affected by World Bank projects have brought 21 formal complaints alleging
violations
of their land rights.
Oxfam, drawing attention to large-scale land acquisitions that have entailed direct rights violations, has called on the Bank to freeze investments in land purchases until it can set standards ensuring that local communities are informed of them in advance, with the option of refusing them.
If so, the 21 complaints made against Bank projects are most likely the visible tip of a vast iceberg of
violations
of land rights by foreign investors in agricultural projects in developing countries – with the others remaining invisible because victims have no access to any complaint procedure.
But how to explain charges of "gross
violations"
by the Ak Zhol Party, the largest opposition group, or the decision by the Minister of Information, an Ak Zhol candidate, to resign in protest?
Or the 89 charges of
violations
filed by just one bloc?
He himself presided over many violations, a fact noted by the OSCE back in 1999.
A new High Authority for Transparency in Public Life was given far-reaching powers to audit and publish public officials’ disclosures, issue rulings on misconduct and conflicts of interest, and refer
violations
to the solicitor general’s office.
As the fourth estate, the media holds governments and corporations accountable by reporting on corruption, environmental degradation, and other
violations
of the public trust.
Having verified its massive corruption, human-rights violations, and crimes against humanity, the international community now recognizes that the principle of non-interference in countries’ internal affairs no longer applies.
A negotiated transition must include a poverty-eradication program, as well as a law on transitional justice and national reconciliation that brings to justice those who have committed grave
violations
of human rights and other crimes, including by banning them from any political activity.
True, passage of this resolution might give Palestine some standing that it now lacks to seek prosecutions in the International Criminal Court for alleged
violations
of international law.
Perhaps in anticipation of a Democratic-led House and a subsequent Democratic pile-on regarding Russia, Trump withdrew the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in October, citing Russian
violations.
While such a discussion is beginning to emerge in response to the Tymoshenko case, the ECHR is a lonely voice, and the international community has so far hesitated to challenge
violations
of the rule of law publicly.
The response to legal abuses has often been timid or declaratory, carried out by individual countries or communities like the European Union in response to specific
violations.
Hefty fines for currency-trading
violations
are not new (HSBC, for example, was hit with a $1.9 billion fine in 2012); but a fine close to $10 billion is.
It did not prevent subsequent
violations
by implementing effective controls to detect problems.
Since World War II’s end, collective punishment has become increasingly unacceptable as a response even to grave or egregious
violations
of international law, and this approach has been codified in a widely accepted set of principles – the so-called ILC articles – concerning the responsibility of states.
That is the situation that confronts President Wahid who knows that much of the popular support for independence movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya derives from resentment against military
violations
of human rights, and that intervention by the army in the Maluka’s at very least exacerbated the conflict between Christians and Muslims who had long lived together peaceably and may even have provoked the violence.
This reading is reinforced by China’s
violations
of its 1984 pact with the United Kingdom, under which China gained sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997.
Yet, for the P5, neither
violations
of international law nor large-scale human suffering trump Realpolitik or “geopolitical considerations.”
It needs to acknowledge that anticipating and responding to major human-rights
violations
are part of its core business.
Others are looking for
violations
of certain symmetries that could enable normally forbidden particle decays, unexplained noise in gravitational wave detectors, or inexplicable loss of quantum coherence.
The Garcia report shows that Russia desperately wanted to host the event, and that Putin even made personal appeals to other countries’ voting officials; yet it finds no evidence of collusion, bribery, or any other rule
violations.
Companies are under genuine pressure to adhere to anti-corruption rules, and plenty of high-profile cases – from Walmart’s corruption scandal in Mexico (involving
violations
of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) to those in the crosshairs of law enforcement now, such as Petrobras, Rolls-Royce, TeliaSonora, and FIFA – should boost deterrence.
But in the real world, how consistent is it possible to be in responding to genocide and other mass atrocities, treaty breaches, border violations, or other serious trespasses against international law?
Read More from "Zone Defense"Burmese DaysNEW DELHI – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Myanmar (Burma), noted largely for a memorable photo opportunity with a wan but smiling Aung San Suu Kyi, signaled a significant change in the geopolitics surrounding a land that has faced decades of isolation, sanctions, and widespread condemnation for its human-rights
violations.
Moreover, China has been charged with egregious
violations
of international rules, ranging from allegations of currency manipulation and state-subsidized dumping of excess capacity to cyber-hacking and forced technology transfer.
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