They believe that they, too, are entitled to act with impunity.

Israel had been able to act with impunity because the United States had repeatedly used its veto in the Security Council.

How else can they explain it than as a complete confirmation of the status quo and of their own ability to act with impunity?

Being in virtual control of large swathes of Central American territory and being able to act with relative impunity are ultimately very good for business.

Impunity for crimes against journalists in Iraq is very high, with the country topping CPJ's list of journalists killed with complete impunity, with 110 unresolved cases since 1992.

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A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.

If anything has become clear in the last year, it is that states like Israel, Iran, and Syria will act with impunity if no one is ready, willing, and able to stand up to them.

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations Task Force is supporting and actively promoting these and other initiatives, recommending additional concrete reforms and helping change the perception that perpetrators of sexual exploitation and abuse act with impunity.

Equally striking is the impunity with which lawmakers flout the rules.

A nuclear vigilante could apply force with impunity. No retaliation followed.

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Climate of impunity

Impunity must end.

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But for all this generosity, an authoritarian government rules Ethiopia with virtual impunity.

His Government was committed to not allowing the authorities to act with impunity and had established independent fact finding commissions to investigate both incidents family and friends of the victims had the right to legal counsel and to testify in court.

Qaddafi cannot be allowed to think that he can massacre his people with impunity.

In Rwanda, brutal forms of violence such as gang rape were perpetrated with impunity.

Crimes of rape and sexual violence were committed with impunity, largely in IDP camps.

Justice and combating impunity

Increasing impunity for such violations

Impunity does not serve justice.

Policy or practice of impunity.

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Deeply concerned that perpetrators of attacks against United Nations and associated personnel seemingly operate with impunity,

Deeply concerned that perpetrators of attacks against United Nations and associated personnel seemingly operate with impunity,

Action must also be taken to end the impunity with which the Burmese generals have ruled.

On one side there are gangs that can arrest, kill or torture people with complete impunity.

Far too often, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide have been perpetrated with blatant impunity.

Israel, the occupying Power, will only continue to deliberately violate the fragile ceasefire and to commit its systematic human rights violations, State terrorism and war crimes as long as it continues to believe it can act against the Palestinian people under its occupation with impunity.

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C. Rule of law and impunity

Only then can impunity be ended.

Equally striking is the impunity with which lawmakers flout the rules that they are sworn to uphold.

It is time to end this impunity.

C. The rule of law and impunity

Impunity for such violence must be stopped.

Taking note with interest of the initiatives taken at the national and international levels in order to end impunity,

People are hungry not because too little food is being produced, but because their rights are violated with impunity.

In addition, violations continue to be perpetrated with apparent impunity by armed strongmen in many parts of the country.

Government security forces were responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary arrest, torture and rape and often acted with impunity.