The Ebola crisis has brutally exposed the "age-old failures" of the humanitarian aid system with the World Health Organisation and governments repeating the mistakes of past public health emergencies, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said.
A more recent account of government failures agrees, calling it "the blunder to end all blunders".
The latest overhaul of Twitter's safety features comes after a leaked memo from the company's chief executive, Dick Costolo, laid out in frank language its failures to get on top of harassment on the site.
In this month's podcast, we'll look at forced labour and the role of international conventions in offering protection; the realities of working on the frontline against slavery; some of the trends in the anti-slavery movement; and the Centre of Social Justice report into the failures of the UK government to address human trafficking.
The failures are not his alone – we can't expect more of politicians than of the civil society that could push them.
I apologise unreservedly for my failures in this regard.
When Labour loses an election there is a tendency on the left to first indulge in the wisdom of hindsight, and then to project the party's failures eternally into the future.
"I think Republicans and Democrats both get to say: 'Don't saddle me with the failures of my party in the past,'" Grenell said.
Occupy Our Homes, on the other hand, confronts the system with its failures – predatory lending, homelessness, and empty bank-owned houses.
Last month, HP stunned investors when it announced it was taking an $8.8bn charge against the $11.1bn it had paid for the British company it had bought from Lynch the year before, and said that over $5bn of that write-off stemmed from "accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and misrepresentations" – charges all denied by its ex-boss.
In interviews, Miliband argued that his decision to intervene in the energy markets was a special case prompted by unique failures in the flawed structure of the energy industry, rejecting claims that he was marching the party back to an era of socialism.
