Sentences with phrase «government complicity»

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.

It really makes you wonder — just how callous can humanity be towards sister species, and if this is going on with government complicity, just how willing is Indonesia's government to limit deforestation?

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...

It is an attempt to highlight the invisible violence that underpins the international industry of death and suffering: the commercial and government complicity that allows for weapons to be made and sold by public companies for shareholder profit; the laws banning assault rifles which go neglected; and the films and video - games which depict trigger - happy heroes.

Not exact matches

Conversations about the power of making arrests, the corruption and complicity of local governments, the holistic care for survivors, the mechanisms of business and labor, the dangers of coming against criminal syndicates — these are not simple ideas or odds to overcome — especially in the NGO community.

Sentenced to death in absentia after the war, Touvier» thanks to a network of sympathizers in the Church, and with the complicity of high - placed government officials» eluded capture until 1989.

[There is a] complicity between government, business, and [the] media which few people care to contemplate.

The church's complicity with the government was made even more apparent by their demonstration.

I think there is a lot of feet dragging by the United States government in great complicity with these companies which have a very solid footing on Capitol Hill.

To obtain visas, weapons, intelligence, and so forth, terrorists require the assistance of someone in government, if not the complicity of the highest state authorities.

Government officials, Shell employees and the co-called «international community» create a complex web of complicity, silence, oppression and exploitation that deprives the peoples of the Niger Delta from reaping any economic or social reward from the enormous resource wealth of their lands.

Ladies and Gentlemen, whilst we are at this, we may use this occasion to inform fellow Ghanaians that we are in possession of evidence that shows that the Government with the complicity of the Bank of Ghana, has in fact illegally utilized the Petroleum Stabilization Fund.

«Any such commission of inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the slave auction and other atrocities being perpetrated in Libya against Nigerians and other African women, men and children, and to collect and preserve evidence as well as clarify responsibility, including the potential complicity of any governments and non-state actors.»

The move is a clear attempt to clamp down on the growing power of the grassroots boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement which aims to end government and corporate complicity with Israel's violations of Palestinian rights.

I have responded to similar spurious allegations of complicity in the loot in the media and on my website, martinamidu.com in the past, but the media and the public are being hoodwinked by Woyome's outburst and the incumbent Government's overwhelming silence to set the records straight.

While political will was lacking for legal protections, Bush sought at least to keep the government — and tax - paying citizens — free from complicity in embryo killing.

And then when I went into Focus gave me a thick book called «The Politics of Heroin» about the CIA's complicity in the drug trading, more reading in the drug trade, this sort of government and nations complicity in the drug trade in general.

All converge to create an edgy, fast - paced story about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever - increasing gulfs between the global and the local, government and society, the virtual and the real.

So, unless something truly catastrophic happens (like the US government defaulting on its bonds) or people in the company break the regulations (which would invovle all kinds of serious crimes and require complicity or complete failure of the auditors), your premiums and the contractual obligation to you would still be there, and would be absorbed by a different insurance company that takes over the defunct company's business.

Her performances and videos contest the means through which the government and the press manipulate facts to construct an official story and critique the complicity of the United States and Mexico in drug trafficking and organized crime.

That is a far cry from the evil associated with planned population control and especially any measures mandated by the government with the complicity of the «majority».

Governments that refuse to act are directly responsible for the demise of our habitat through their complicity with the corporations they serve.»

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.

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.

In other words, granting Binyam Mohamed and his four co-defendants their day in court might result in official confirmation, or new revelations, of the CIA's relationship with Jeppesen; of the cooperation and complicity of foreign governments in rendition and torture; about the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program in general; and about the CIA's practices and methods — all matters which, our government insists and the narrowest of majorities of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees, «in the interests of national security should not be divulged.»

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.

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.