Never before has so much been done on the African continent to achieve accountability for international crimes.
In general the transparency of decision criteria must be improved in all countries in order to achieve accountability for all actors of the health care systems as well as consumers.
There is a need to strike a balance between achieving accountability upwards within the health system (for example through information reporting arrangements) while at the same time allowing for the local level innovation that could improve quality of care and patient responsiveness.
For the last six months, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been spinning its wheels instead of instituting reforms or achieving accountability concerning their agents fatally shooting people.
This is no way to fund a major war-crimes tribunal with a historic mandate to achieve accountability, finally, for one of the 20th century's worst slaughters of innocent civilians.
With the future of No Child Left Behind currently at stake, now is critical moment to step away from the stranglehold of high-stakes testing, and look to our country's wealth of progressive education research for how to achieve accountability without robbing our students of their formative school years.
THE Bush administration is casting about for new ideas on how to use $5 billion of aid a year for poor countries to achieve accountability and results in economic development.
For instance, in 2001, the Supreme Court decided (in a case about mammary amputation) that doctors have a responsibility to disclose even a treatment that has not yet been technically established in order to achieve accountability [ 25].
Taking the stage after Holder, Associate Attorney General Tony West used stronger language: "This agreement is notable because it achieves real accountability for the American people and helps to rectify the harm caused by Bank of America's conduct," he said.
The White House said it was willing to work with Congress to achieve greater accountability for contractors but it had "grave concerns" about the new House bill, which it said would overburden the F.B.I. and the Defense Department and interfere with crucial "national security activities and operations".
