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.

Its activities continued in a limited level until 1980.

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.

Welcomes the projected increase in the 2005 regular income level

UNFPA cooperation with India rose in 2004 from 6.8 million in 2003 to 11.9 million in 2004, the highest level of assistance by UNFPA to any country in 2004.

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.

At the start of 1996, the US unemployment rate was 5.6 .

By 1923, the extent of cultivated land surpassed the pre war level.

The 2030 emissions level for the entire world would be less than the emissions projected for non OECD countries alone in the Reference Scenario.

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.

A hundred years ago, Argentina was arguably the world s second wealthiest economy.

Regular resource contributions from programme countries have started to be restored from the 2002 level of 14 million, amounting to 19 million in 2004.

At the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation, an action plan for children from 2002 to 2010 was adopted.

(f) Egypt's consumption was above the Baseline in 2002, but achieved Baseline level in 2003.

Government finances also improved in 2004, but remained below projections in the first quarter of 2005.

The index was started with a base level of 1000 as of January 01, 1998.

We are once again down to levels of access that are comparable to those we started with in 2004.

In 2004 female representation in Parliament is only four per cent.

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.

In 2004, the governments of ASEAN vowed to end the impunity states like Burma have enjoyed and signed the Declaration to Eliminate Violence Against Women in the ASEAN Region.

This funding level of the annual programme budget was 97 per cent and 94 per cent in 2004 and 2003, respectively.

In 2010, China passed Japan to become the world s second largest economy.

Lead levels within the blood of Americans are reported to have dropped by up to 80 by the late 1990s.

Since May 1991, diplomatic relations between the two countries have been upgraded from Diplomatic Representation to Embassy level.

Work on a Department wide comprehensive training strategy was under way and should be completed by the end of 2005.

The 2003 figure shows an increase to 4.2 billion (see table 1).

Currently, 1,349 women are working at managerial level, as against 674 in 1991.

10.44 In 2001 female teachers were equally represented in the primary school level (50 per cent) but underrepresented in the secondary level.

Its unemployment rate rose from 1.8 in 1990 to 9.6 in 1994, before bottoming out at 5 in 2001.