The ICCPR not only holds a state responsible for protecting individuals from abusive state action, but for responding appropriately and effectively to abuses committed by private actors.
"It legalizes repressive and abusive state tactics," Professor Cohen said.
Since October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, people of conscience need to be educated about this abusive state of affairs.
This involves addressing the country's structural racism, abysmal inequality and social stigma that all but justifies abusive state treatment of its poorest.
More specifically, harassment can be "quid pro quo", whereby a person in authority can demand that one with lesser power comply with their request in order to achieve their objectives, or "hostile environment", occurring when the person in power creates an ongoing, offensive or abusive state-of-affairs.
He alluded only in passing to "a jobless recovery, an alarming debt, a bothersome and abusive regulatory state".
British trainers reported him for insubordination and abusive behaviour, stating their suspicion that he was involved in the assassination of the military academy's commander in 1963.
The WikiLeaks documents that Manning allegedly released did help spur dramatic change by providing much-needed information about abusive security-state governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain among others.
The administration says it is "closing loopholes" and curbing "abusive practices" that states have used to expand Medicaid without putting up all the state money required by federal law.
It seeks rather to diminish the devastating human cost of conflicts and to ensure a fairer fight (ICRC 2004).9 Human rights law, on the other hand, seeks to protect individuals from potentially abusive actions by states and does not allow the arbitrary taking of life under any circumstances.10.10
