It should address existing gaps in Australia's legal and policy frameworks that permit businesses to continue to commit human rights abuses and flout the law.
The campaign which apparently does not target successor paramilitary groups, is also likely to benefit those groups which continue to commit human rights abuses, engage in drug trafficking, and operate in more than 400 municipalities in 31 Colombian states, according to a report by the Institute of Development and Peace, INDEPAZ.
In addition to the influx of Burundian refugees, the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing resurgent armed groups that continue to commit grave human rights violations, which may result in increased humanitarian assistance needs.
We cannot continue to commit linguistic suicide, and the nation should not commit linguistic genocide.
Global Witness and Partnership Africa Canada, both nongovernmental organizations, contended the military continued to commit human rights abuses and run smuggling operations.
The 1990's saw several massacres of men, women and children in the poorest regions of Mexico, where "military personnel and police continued to commit serious human rights abuses," the State Department said in February.
Paul Wolfowitz's concern for press freedom in Indonesia may be genuine, but if he and the administration he represents were genuinely concerned about the rule of law there, they would not be seeking to arm and train an Indonesian military that continues to commit gross human rights violations with impunity.
Indonesian rights organizations say that the unit has continued to commit abuses, especially in Papua, a mineral-rich island with a secessionist movement, since Indonesia began democratizing in 1998.
