Today, the US marine that brought weapons into Mexican territory was freed ... Violence, insecurity, these are products of corruption and negotiations that lead to impunity".
A report released last month noted it could lead to impunity for some of the FARC's worst crimes, including kidnapping, raping and murdering civilians, using child soldiers, forcibly displacing civilians, and killing and injuring civilians with landmines.
"Human rights abuses in the army are routinely investigated by the military itself, and that leads to impunity," said Tamara Taraciuk, Mexico researcher for Human Rights Watch.
The U.S. immigration prison system is built on a culture of secrecy, which often leads to impunity.
In such cases, as when a mainstream feminist writer compares the ideal female body to that of a "Brazilian transsexual," for example, our law and practice should allow for trust -- not the kind of trust that leads to impunity and abuse but the kind of trust in which the first reaction to sub-par communication isn't to assume intentional insult but to educate and inform.
Others, however, say trying to pursue every crime would lead to de facto impunity because the justice system could not handle so many cases.
Massive corruption and violent human rights violations are mutually reinforcing, and unless this linkage is exposed and broken, it can lead to mutually reinforcing impunity.
This impunity can lead to emboldening" attackers.
The blame rests not only with the Afghan president but also with the US government that has not had an effective policy, which has lead to the present environment of impunity with no recourse for the victim, no justice system to prosecute the offenders and no real political will to fight corruption.
A unilateralist and isolationist mentality based on military might, self-interest and a sense of impunity can lead to a disregard of international law, ethics and consequently, detainee rights.
Human rights advocates wonder if soldiers will once again kill with impunity and whether dubious accusations will lead to killings outside the law.
