Sentences with phrase «complicity in»

Knowing and acknowledging this history is particularly important for health systems and professionals, given that current Australian health dialogue supports the development of culturally safe services and practices, and this requires an understanding of one's own profession's historical complicity in such events.

If her interlocutor seems to question her story or to suggest her own complicity in the abuse, the vulnerability that leads her to doubt her own perceptions and blame herself for her situation may leave her unable to assert her own reality and her abuser's responsibility.

«The defendant may be able to show complicity in permitting certain acts to go unchecked or unaddressed, the lack of any attempts at addressing the defendant's aggressive behavior before the shooting, and preventing this tragedy through some form of intervention,» Arreaza wrote in a motion to disqualify the public defender's office from the Cruz case.

And that's the awakening occasioned by the rolling revelation of Facebook's complicity in the debacle of the last presidential campaign.

16 «ESAT Accuses China of Complicity in Jamming Signals,» Ethiopian Satellite Television, June 15, 2011, accessed February 13, 2014, http://ethsat.com/2011/10/08/esat-accuses-china-of-complicity-in-jamming-signals.

The complicity in the community enabled Marquis - Boire to hurt women with impunity.

We need to face up to our complicity in this: who thinks about data security before buying a fitness device, for example?

He spent 40 months in prison for his own complicity in the tax fraud he said his former employer UBS had perpetrated.

Policies should include specific directions aimed at eliminating any possible Canadian complicity in torture, avoiding the risk of other human rights abuses and ensuring accountability.

By making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, some argue, this legislation is trying to amend or rewrite history and with Poland's Jewish societies stating their communities feel unsafe i, we ask why this Bill was ever passed.

Frequent worldwide travellers will appreciate the ambit of this decision, which makes the prosecution of a foreign financial professional in the US more likely for complicity in his US client's de facto tax evasion schemes.

But the detailed examination of what went wrong in Maher Arar's case made it clear that such a recommendation was in fact absolutely needed; a strong reminder that complicity in torture is both morally repugnant and criminal.

This is why, in the Bribery Bill, the government wants to enact a new corporate offence of failure to prevent complicity in bribery to which the only defence is proof that there were «adequate procedures» to prevent it.

This guidance incentivised companies which self - reported their complicity in corruption with the emphasis being on the carrot not the stick.

# 30m swamps what any UK regulator has hitherto prised from a multinational in relation to its complicity in overseas corruption.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether corporations may be sued in American courts for complicity in human rights abuses abroad.

The World Medical Association (Resolution on Euthanasia Adopted General Assembly 2002) condemns euthanasia whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to legalise it.

Counsel for the Canadian Council of Refugees made reference to the consequences of a finding of inadmissibility for complicity in the commission of war crimes as including potentially being placed on the «Wanted» list.

High priority issues include racial profiling, arbitrary and indefinite detention, complicity in torture, and the use of secret evidence.

Both Lord Mance and Lord Neuberger held that even if the second rule did extend more generally to acts directed against the person, it would be subject to a public policy exception which would permit the allegations of complicity in torture, unlawful detention and enforced rendition in this case to be pursued in the English courts.

The claimant, Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, had made a number of claims against various government departments, alleging complicity in unlawful and arbitrary detention and inhuman and degrading treatment and torture on the part of British authorities in Somaliland.

Updated It is being widely reported that around 12 men, who accused the government of complicity in their mistreatment in various places including the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, have reached a financial settlement worth millions of pounds with the government.

«The second situation... is one in which it can not be said that the contracting state which handed over the detainee continues to exercise control over him but there is nevertheless a sufficient level of involvement in torture or other serious mistreatment to which the detainee is subsequently subjected to amount to complicity in such treatment on the part of the contracting state.

The American Bar Association, which continues to approve law schools with impunity and with no end in sight, bears complicity in creating this mess.

While government complicity in Janjaweed activity, and the extent of the activities meeting these definitions are not under dispute, the political prudence of using the ICC to resolve this situation is.

That policy, in essence, indicated that if a company self - reports complicity in suspected corruption and agrees to make amends, a civil settlement is likely.

Handing prisoners over to the Americans would result in directly complicity in Guantanamo Bay.

It is proposed to make this new enforcement method available where companies have admitted their complicity in economic crime such as bribery.

Another, often overlooked, enforcement innovation which EnA 2002 awarded to the OFT was the power to seek a bespoke directors disqualification order (a competition disqualification order (CDO)-RRB- for up to 15 years in respect of complicity in a cartel.

The lawsuit sought compensation for the defendants» alleged complicity in human rights abuses committed in Nigeria by the Nigerian government at the instigation of the defendants» Nigerian subsidiary.

The world's great democracies have been built on the bloodied backs of Haitians, and the beneficiaries of Haiti's sacrifices have yet to acknowledge their complicity in Haiti's impeded development...

In circumstances in which knowledge or suspicion of involvement / complicity in money laundering on the part of intermediary businesses may be extremely difficult to establish, then a regulatory route will often be the most appropriate, especially given that penalties can be severe.

A former Illinois assistant public defender faces disciplinary charges over postings to her blog that Illinois authorities say exposed client confidences and revealed her complicity in a client's fraud on a court.

By making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany, some argue, this legislation is trying to amend or rewrite history and with Poland's Jewish societies stating their communities feel unsafe [i], we ask why this Bill was ever passed.

One who is guilty of complicity in crime charged, either by being present and aiding or abetting in it, or having advised and encouraged it, though absent from place when it was committed, though mere presence, Acquiescence, or silence, in the absence of a duty to act, is not enough, no matter how reprehensible it may be, to constitute one an accomplice.

A recent report by conservation NGO Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) is decrying what they say is Norwegian government complicity in funding a project they allege could result in the clearance...

I think the news media will be so busy pointing the finger at others to distract people from their own complicity in this swindle they will turn on the IPCC like the snakes they are (Jen and a few others excepted)

How long can such complicity in Green Gang and UN scams go on?

NIWA's complicity in» Climategate «seems to be unreported within NZ and one must read foreign news to hear of the complicity of Aussie climaxologists.

The tactic of sharing carbon profits and redistributing malfeasance, works to build complicity in a carbon axis in ways that unconsciously allows harm and cements an archaic energy policy that has no future.

I see people attempting to expose a deception and UEA's complicity in that deception.

It issued a resolution in 2007 admitting «Christian complicity in the damage human beings have caused to the earth's climate system,» and in 2013, it became the first U.S. denomination to divest from fossil fuels.

It is too big a problem, too frightening, and raises questions about our individual complicity in it.

Other steps include acknowledging complicity in carbon emissions, finding beauty in nature, and reinvesting in climate activism.

I have been hoping that the Chinese situation will refocus people on the multiplicitous invasions on clean air, water, etc. and our complicity in not moving forward to solve these problems, resulting in an unprecedented number of world climate - related disasters, not only direct, but indirect in the form of health / disease and socioeconomic conflicts.

Earlier this year, Thomas Micchelli penned an insightful essay in the Rail entitled «Monumental Squalor,» which indicted architect Robert A.M. Stern for his complicity in the George W. Bush Presidential Library, a project that is planned to perpetuate the bankrupt beliefs of a presidency that has destroyed the ideals of America.

How do we measure our collective complicity in both systemic violence, trauma, and the legacy of constructed racial representations?

Blending photographs from her archives with a series of studies commissioned last year by the Louvre, the exhibition evinces her complicity in the act of voyeurism and her acknowledgment of its persistence throughout the Western art - historical canon.

The notion that a photograph is anchored in a specificity of time, place and circumstance, and the artists» complicity in relation to that is central to an understanding of Divola's practice.

Reflecting the colour schemes and image themes of Local Authority branding, the work highlights our own complicity in assigning value to the lives of people.