Political will is needed to hold state corrections authorities accountable for criminal violence carried out in state institutions.
"There has been a growing trend of 'criminalization' of irregular migration in Europe," the organization said as it launched an online petition urging the European Parliament to hold authorities accountable for their treatment of migrants.
This is why I believe that notwithstanding private sector and civil society actions, state implementation is key in effectively protecting the child and holding parents, the government and other authorities accountable for the treatment of a child.
I, for one, am hopeful the public -- particularly the blogger community -- will hold the authorities accountable for a thorough, open and honest investigation of this bizarre and tragic occurrence.
These changes meant that from April 2006, local authorities became accountable for Sure Start Children's Centres (rather than community partnership boards), and health agencies were legally obliged to cooperate in providing services within Children's Centres.
Sara Khan, the sister of a British doctor who was unlawfully killed in Syria, has said she wants see the Syrian authorities held accountable for his death at the International Criminal Court.
It's through acts of pushing for system reforms that geographically dispersed groups of citizens are able to grow spontaneously into their own, and by acting to hold authorities accountable and pushing for political reforms, establishment of democratic rule of law, and advances in society, that civil groups are able to grow in a healthy way.
She too wants firm action: "I would like to ask Norman Lamb to please make it compulsory for every local authority to be accountable for their young people.
The Japanese legal doctrine of "apparent authority" holds firms accountable for their employees' actions, provided those actions are carried out within the scope of their normal work.
Senior party leaders, torturers and those now organizing attacks on American and British troops must obviously be excluded from all positions of authority and held accountable for their crimes.
