As of now, governments are set to agree to "commit to systematically consider population trends and projections in our national, rural and urban development strategies and policies".
If anything it has become less since the end of the cold war; for example it is now admitted that the Wehrmacht, and not just the SS, committed war crimes systematically on the eastern front.
For Beck, these statements speak to a government systematically committed to removing individual liberty.
It might be related to Rick's old job as the CEO of a hospital company called Columbia/HCA, during a time when the company systematically committed the largest Medicare fraud in American history and were forced to pay a whopping $1.7 billion in fines and restitution.
In this era of austerity, the public would be more offended by the notion that thousands of government employees were doing nothing than that they were, say, invading the privacy of millions, testing the limits of international law and abetting our allies in systematically committing war crimes.
And while this number appeared low given media reports of widespread sexual violence during Sierra Leone's civil war, PHR's survey established that the main rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), was systematically committing sexual abuse.
So if a crime against humanity had become in some sense "banal" it was precisely because it was committed in a daily way, systematically, without being adequately named and opposed.
Nyhan and Reifler found that how people responded to the factual corrections in the articles they read varied systematically by how ideologically committed they already were to the beliefs that such facts supported.
In pre-trial hearings, judges noted that while Bemba, who was in custody, did not directly pay or coach the witnesses, "he was at the origin of many of the acts committed by the other suspects and was systematically informed of the status of those acts and of their results".
Amnesty International asserted in a lengthy report today that Russian police and military officers had systematically tortured criminal suspects nationwide, and had committed "serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws" in Chechnya.
