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Polluters Must PayNEW YORK – When BP and its drilling partners caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the United States government demanded that BP finance the cleanup, compensate those who suffered damages, and pay criminal penalties for the violations that led to the disaster.
The same applies when China does not behave like a good international citizen on the UN Security Council, or should it commit egregious human-rights violations at home.
By stimulating daily public debate about local human-rights violations, they spread the message of discontent more efficiently than traditional parties ever have.
As has been widely reported in the media, Venezuela is experiencing one of the most calamitous economic collapses ever, accompanied by massive doses of political repression and human-rights violations.
With Venezuela’s economy deteriorating sharply, and violence and human-rights violations proliferating, Maduro has been forced to call elections for this coming December.
But labor-law violations have become the norm, because efforts to enforce ILO rules are often quashed, while trade union members are routinely threatened, fired, and even murdered.
Human rights advocates in Indonesia, for example, used the crisis to argue for political prisoners to be released, for East Timor to be given its independence, and for provincial human rights violations to beinvestigated.
To succeed in restoring a strong growth path, East Asia must deliver justice for more than individual human rights violations.
Serious Harm By ResearchThe media, legislators, and other organizations often raise concerns about human-rights violations and ethical breaches in clinical research.
But, although freeing a few people who were unjustly imprisoned for long periods is significant, it should not obscure the Russian government’s ongoing major human-rights violations at home and abroad.
This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.
The bills had been written at the urging of Hollywood studios and the publishing and recording industries, which claim that violations of copyright on the Internet cost the US 100,000 jobs.
Doubters need only recall the unwillingness of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the misfortune of being born in powerful countries.
Violations of the treaty would be easily detectable and allow time for the West to deploy countermeasures.
In the process, Merkel, the daughter of an East German pastor, set an example of personal decency that has gone a long way toward restoring the good name of a country that, three-quarters of a century ago, was responsible for some of the largest-scale human-rights violations ever recorded.
Violations of children’s rights are now so rampant that there simply is no alternative.
Palestine has more elements of a vigorous civil society than virtually any other country in the Arab world, including an active human rights movement, which initially focused only on Israeli abuses, but that has increasingly criticized violations by the Palestinian Authority itself.
They are aided by the fact that some within the government would prefer to close a sorrowful chapter of human rights violations rather than bringing it to a conclusion.
Trump’s Alternative Ethical UniverseLONDON – From the moment Donald Trump entered the US presidential race, the potential for an unprecedented array of ethics violations, stemming from his global business interests, has been a ticking time bomb, set to detonate on January 20, 2017.
Efforts have been made to counter – or, at least, highlight – the ethics violations that Trump and his team are accumulating.
The Washington Post has created a new team devoted specifically to covering conflicts of interest within the Trump administration and possible violations of the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution, which prohibits anyone holding public office from accepting money or gifts from foreign officials.
After Europe and the Americas, Africa will be the third continent with a regional court to redress human rights violations.
On May 3, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the protection of civilians in conflicts and strongly condemning recent violations of international humanitarian law.
Whether these violations involve shutting down TV stations, imprisoning and exiling opponents, arming guerrillas in neighboring countries, provoking an arms race in the region, or flirting with Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, they all can be proved and denounced.
Anti-corruption efforts – whether directed at political bosses, officials who turn a blind eye to customs violations, or local traffic cops accepting a few dollars for an infraction – should figure centrally in the region’s strategy for mitigating inequality.
The European Parliament condemned Cuba's human rights violations and demanded that Rivero and other prisoners be released.
During the campaign Mr. Lavin repeatedly said that, irrespective of his age and health, General Pinochet should stand trial in Chile for alleged violations of human rights.
Though Americans tend to lump Nixon’s violations of civil liberties together under the heading of “Watergate,” much more was involved than the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters and the subsequent cover-up.
Indeed, a hallmark of the Bush administration’s violations of civil liberties is that many involve efforts to evade judicial review.
Under the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services, violations of commitments to most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment, market access, and national treatment can be enforced through actions brought against the offending government by an affected company’s home country.
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