Africa s Immunity Controversy

In other words, the immunity is jurisdictional immunity from national courts.

The impunity that is characteristic of these heinous crimes must stop.

Amnesty laws in Argentina at the time shielded him from prosecution.

The first member of a cartel should receive complete immunity from prosecution and punishment.

This guaranteed legal immunity for the leaders who carried out the invasion of Iraq.

It originates from medicine and early studies on the causes of immunity to disease.

The Jurisdictional Immunities Convention applies to the immunity of a State and its property from the jurisdiction of the courts of another State.

But Iran is playing for time and hoping to reach a zone of immunity.

Instead, they often seek immunity by running for public office.

The wise Mr. Kutesa has revolutionized international law with his introduction of the concept of so called provisional immunity.

However, the debate will not be on the substance of the claim but only on the validity of the assertion of immunity.

Third, the precise scope of article 10, paragraph 1, as it related to proceedings arising out of commercial activities, posed similar difficulties.

Impunity, in turn, erodes the credibility of the country s institutions, including public hospitals and clinics.

The earliest known reference to immunity was during the plague of Athens in 430 BC.

We regret the fact that the text we have adopted contains a provision of immunity from jurisdiction, which runs counter to the spirit of the Rome Statute.

There is a long standing presumption of sovereign immunity states can be sued only under limited circumstances.

In fact, one has to search the books of diplomatic history to find evidence of non performance of diplomatic conventions , and in each instance the challenge to diplomatic decorum came from a source that can be credibly dismissed as barbarian.

The implicit immunity from prosecution these groups received in exchange for their demobilization has done little to help.

Many of its candidates seek office not to work for Ukraine s betterment, but to gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Ukraine also declared that the provisions of article 26, paragraph 3, shall not be applied to the organizer or leader of a criminal group in respect of granting immunity from criminal prosecution.

In article 5, the principle of State immunity from the jurisdiction of the courts of another State was reaffirmed, as was the principle of jurisdictional sovereignty.

Abbas has succeeded in convincing Israel to grant amnesty to many Fatah fugitives in the West Bank who will join his security apparatuses.

In these circumstances, immunity from external shocks or decoupling, as it is often called seems fanciful.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for his part, has proposed lifting the immunity that past prime ministers enjoyed in connection with the sale of peerages.

Such a decision would be a serious setback to the movement to end impunity for the most serious crimes.

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Action must begin with investment or with an intraregional treaty that affords extraterritorial rights and protection for regional capital and labour.

The Working Group may wish to take note that in December 2004, the General Assembly adopted the Jurisdictional Immunities Convention (see resolution 59 38).

No one needs diplomatic immunity to talk to their friends. They need it to talk to their adversaries.

Costa Rica is a member of the International Criminal Court, without a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the United States military (as covered under Article 98).

Most important among such amendments is the repeal of Provisional Article 15, which has provided immunity from prosecution to all actors of the military regime established by the 1980 coup.

There were no reasonable grounds for granting immunity to United Nations and associated personnel who violated national laws, and such immunity would be inimical to the universality of the protocol.

Latin America will finish 2007 with a current account surplus and growing foreign currency reserves, insulating them from financial crisis.

Indeed, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was written deliberately with loopholes that gave immunity to perpetrators of many kinds of sexual humiliation and abuse.

The world embarked on the creation of international criminal tribunals a decade and a half ago in order to end the impunity with which heads of state and leaders of guerrilla groups commit atrocious crimes.

The survivors of all the previous political movements, now enthralled by Mao s personality cult, were free of all constraint, able to kill and seek revenge with impunity.

Nobody is claiming that sovereignty confers immunity the shift in the normative consensus is more or less complete.

From a strictly economic standpoint, academic freedom requires relative immunity to costs, whether stemming from trial and error experimentation or from more radical challenges to the status quo.

However, since it does not provide 100 immunity from the disease, food hygiene precautions should also be taken into consideration when visiting an area where there is a high risk of becoming infected with cholera.

It has held that accountability for the crimes of the dictators is a human right and thus trumps the impunity gained by many Latin American dictators as a condition of allowing democratic transitions.

For the sake of the referral, Brazil painstakingly agreed during the negotiations upon provisions that presented a serious level of difficulty for my Government, such as the exemption from jurisdiction for nationals of those countries not parties to the Statute, even though considering the need to approve the referral Brazil acceded to such a limited immunity.

4.4 The State party contends that this is a frequent situation in many States and that it is equally common to have procedures for waiving the immunity of certain persons in public posts when they face criminal charges.

3. Each State Party shall consider providing for the possibility, in accordance with fundamental principles of its domestic law, of granting immunity from prosecution to a person who provides substantial cooperation in the investigation or prosecution of an offence covered by this Convention.

In such a situation, dealing with past acts of corruption and recovering the respective proceeds was essential for any Government when trying to regain the trust of its citizens and overcome the culture of impunity.