Sentences with phrase «ensuring justice for victims»

Inspector - General of Police, Solomon Arase who made the disclosure yesterday, when he played host to a delegation from IPAS, promised to improve on the existing partnership between the Nigeria Police and the non-governmental organization with focus on promoting women reproductive rights and ensuring justice for victims of gender crimes.

They say campus sexual assault is an «unacceptable epidemic» and the bill is needed to reduce assaults and ensure justice for victims.

We advocate for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.

To ensure justice for victims of corporate human rights abuse, transnational companies who evade accountability in the states hosting their operations must face justice at home — a new treaty under negotiation holds the promise of doing so.

We advocate for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.

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The Foundation has since cooperated closely with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and with the SEC, helping to bring this massive fraud to light, protecting future victims and ensuring that the perpetrators of the fraud are brought to justice.

The Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act, passed in Albany on March 16, increases penalties for trafficking, ensures that penalties for buying sex from a minor align with those for statutory rape, and allows trafficking victims to bring civil suits against their traffVictims Protection and Justice Act, passed in Albany on March 16, increases penalties for trafficking, ensures that penalties for buying sex from a minor align with those for statutory rape, and allows trafficking victims to bring civil suits against their traffvictims to bring civil suits against their traffickers.

However, legal experts have warned against scrapping the reduction for a guilty plea, saying it is the only incentive for offenders to confess, thus ensuring victims do not have to give evidence in court and speeding up the whole justice process.

«I charge all relevant security agencies to rise to their constitutional mandate and combat the creeping lawlessness in our midst, no matter the affiliations of the instigators of such violent occurrences... In this particular instance, I am committed to seeing through the processes that will ensure justice for all who fell victim to this afternoon's aggression and violence,» Dr, Dzani added.

As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA serves as a voice for the movement before lawmakers, funders, and other decision - makers, leads initiatives that advance and support the CAC mission to provide healing and justice for child victims of abuse, and ensures quality care for the children and families our members serve.

Amnesty International UK is calling on the UK government to condemn the practice of rendition, initiate independent investigations, ensure oversight of intelligence agencies, refuse to assist improper transfers, bring perpetrators to justice and provide reparation for past victims.

«We must take action to protect victims of childhood sexual abuse and ensure access to justice for survivors,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) told the Daily News.

«Most importantly, we are concerned that the criminal justice system continue to function in Rensselaer County and that this not create a distraction from our duty to ensure that justice is served for the victims of crime and society at large,» the association said.

However, successful claims and lawsuits for recompense can ensure victims or their surviving family members obtain justice by holding those responsible legally accountable for their negligence.

The firm's work seeks to ensure deaths in service are dealt with fairly and openly while improving access to justice and possible compensation for victims and their families.

Coptic Solidarity calls on the new administration to give a high priority to ensuring justice for Copts with Egyptian officials, to end the culture of impunity, and recommends that a percentage of US economic aid to Egypt be dedicated to compensate Coptic victims of violence for lost lives or properties.

In these cases, contracting a Louisville product liability attorney can prove to be a sound decision in order to ensure that consumer rights are protected, justice is served, and victims are compensated for their troubles.

If our civil justice system did nothing more than ensure justice and accountability for victims of physician sexual abuse, it would be valuable enough.

It specifically recommend earmarking funds in the Canada social transfer for civil legal aid in order to ensure that women have access to family justice with a particular emphasis on victims of violence, indigenous women, and women with disabilities.

The Wisconsin Access to Justice Commission has released its Legal Services for Abuse Victims Proposal urging the Wisconsin Legislature to ensure that abuse victims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding theirVictims Proposal urging the Wisconsin Legislature to ensure that abuse victims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding theirvictims in Wisconsin have access to the basic legal services they need to protect themselves and to begin rebuilding their lives.

The Criminal Code allows for detention prior to a finding of guilt «to ensure attendance in court; for the protection and safety of the public, including any victims of or witness to the offence; and to maintain public confidence in the justice system,» says the report.

The most widely accepted definition of restorative justice is that it is «a process whereby all the parties with a stake in a particular offence come together to resolve collectively how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future» (144) Restorative justice processes seek to ensure that offenders are able to accept responsibility for their offending behaviour and the impact of this on the community and any victims.