You asserted, "Until this incident is credibly investigated, there is little hope of moving forward with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks or efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program".
Until this incident is credibly investigated, there is little hope of moving forward with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks or efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program.
The Corrie family will ask Israel's highest court on Wednesday to overturn a 2012 judgment by a lower court in Haifa, which ruled that the Israeli military was not negligently responsible for Corrie's death and had fully and credibly investigated the circumstances of her death.
Credibly investigating the allegations "puts you on much firmer ground when you do disclose them," he added.
Annie Bird, director of the group Rights and Ecology which documents human rights abuses in Honduras, said: "Cruz's testimony suggests death squads are targeting political opposition, but the justice system is so broken, and directly controlled by figures implicated in corruption, that there is no one [in Honduras] who can credibly investigate".
The official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, said she "detected no new or comprehensive effort to independently or credibly investigate the allegations" that tens of thousands of civilians were killed by the military during the closing months of the war.
But the institutions are hardly a model: Those who run them have tolerated physical and psychological abuse, knowingly hired unqualified workers, ignored complaints by whistle-blowers and failed to credibly investigate cases of abuse and neglect, according to a review by The New York Times of thousands of state records and court documents, along with interviews of current and former employees.
How can the SEC credibly investigate the appropriateness of self-regulation in the investment advisory industry when such an inquiry must focus on the failures of the NASD and FINRA?
"With an ICC investigation now possible, the parties have to show that they are willing and able to credibly investigate serious allegations and bring the perpetrators to justice," Balkees Jarrah, counsel at Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program, told VICE News.
Last September, Pillay's office said it had "detected no new or comprehensive effort to independently or credibly investigate the allegations which have been of concern to the Human Rights Council".
He should take concrete steps to stop the violations, transparently, credibly and impartially investigate past abuses, and compensate civilian victims.
