Protection of staff against retaliation for reporting misconduct

C. Protection against retaliation for exposure of wrongdoing or reporting of irregularities and misconduct

The Secretary General is finalizing a comprehensive policy to ensure protection against retaliation for reporting of alleged misconduct.

The ethics office will provide protection against retaliation to persons who report misconduct or who cooperate in official investigations.

If the office finds that there is a credible case of retaliation or threat of retaliation, it will refer the matter to the Office of Internal Oversight Services for investigation and may also recommend interim protection measures.

(b) Undertaking the responsibilities assigned to it under the Organization's policy for the protection of staff against retaliation for reporting misconduct

Does your country's legislation enable the provision of protection from potential retaliation or intimidation for witnesses in criminal proceedings who give testimony concerning offences covered by the Convention (art. 24, para. 1)?

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And they're retaliation proof.

When a complaint of retaliation is received, the ethics office will conduct a preliminary review of the complaint to determine if there is a credible case of retaliation or threat of retaliation.

Reaffirming the growing recognition of the special role of witnesses in criminal proceedings, especially in cases involving organized crime, and the need to encourage their collaboration and to provide them with effective protection from retaliation or intimidation,

This vandalism was in retaliation to the murder of two Jews from Ashkelon in Gaza two days before the ceremony.

Has your country entered into any bilateral or multilateral agreement or arrangement with other States for the relocation of witnesses and or victims, insofar as they are witnesses, in order to ensure their physical protection from potential retaliation or intimidation (art. 24, para. 3)?

At the same time, Iran has effective means of retaliation.

I definitely had to protect myself to avoid any retaliation.

In 1291 a group of pilgrims from Acre came under attack and in retaliation killed nineteen Muslim merchants in a Syrian caravan.

1. Each State Party shall take appropriate measures within its means to provide assistance and protection to victims of offences covered by this Convention, in particular in cases of threat of retaliation or intimidation.

The event provided a forum for constructive discussion and exchange of views on how best to achieve protection and assistance measures for victims of trafficking as a shield against retaliation and intimidation by traffickers.

Does your country's legislation enable the provision of assistance to and protection of victims of offences covered by the Convention, in particular in cases of threat of retaliation or intimidation (art. 25, para. 1)?

1. Each State Party shall take appropriate measures within its means to provide effective protection from potential retaliation or intimidation for witnesses in criminal proceedings who give testimony concerning offences covered by this Convention and, as appropriate, for their relatives and other persons close to them.

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

Their attacks on police increased and often seemed intended to invite retaliation.

Such persons have the right to protection from displacement, protection during displacement and protection after displacement.

The threat of retaliation that underpins its strategic effectiveness remains implicit and hypothetical.

The LET and the organisations associated with it would want a quick retaliation.

The air raids brought Iranian retaliation, which included the aerial bombing of Baghdad.

That provoked Israeli retaliation, starting the Gaza end of the crisis that Iran wanted.

As for Hezbollah, the Israeli military response is by no means confined to retaliation.

But countries like Argentina and Brazil fear Chinese retaliation aimed at their commodity exports.

In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast with a fleet from Norway and Orkney.

(c) Revenue source's protection from adjustment

Spain s government, outraged, promises strong retaliation, and will certainly have the European Union s political support.

They believed that neither side would use nuclear weapons, owing to the fear of retaliation.

In this way, Putin s regime intensifies political dissenters longing for retaliation thereby hindering peaceful change.

1. Each State Party shall take appropriate measures in accordance with its domestic legal system and within its means to provide effective protection from potential retaliation or intimidation for witnesses and experts who give testimony concerning offences established in accordance with this Convention and, as appropriate, for their relatives and other persons close to them.

(l) Notes that temporary protection, without formally according refugee status, as a specific provisional protection response to situations of mass influx providing immediate emergency protection from refoulement, should be clearly distinguished from other forms of international protection

Protection from physical and sexual violence remains one of the major challenges to civilian protection.

They view the US move as a new sort of financial protectionism and are threatening retaliation.

The potential for loss of life, for Iranian retaliation, and for global economic disruption is high.

In retaliation, Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into Israel, with no casualties.

In retaliation there is life for you , men possessed of minds haply you will be godfearing .

And for you in retaliation is life men of insight ! that haply ye may fear God .

There is life for you in retaliation , O people of understanding , so that you may refrain .

O owners of minds , for you in retaliation is life , in order that you be cautious .

In retaliation there is life for you , men possessed of minds haply you will be godfearing .