Africa s Immunity Controversy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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

2.7 On 20 March 1996, the Superior Court of the district of Montreal allowed the deputy prosecutor's motion for dismissal and rejected the author's appeal.

Expressions of anti Americanism will provide no protection or immunity to governments or individuals who for good reason are not prepared to endorse the terrorists radical agendas.

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.