The report, which runs more than 650 pages, includes a bill of rights for women, recommends politically difficult measures such as the prosecution of armed personnel accused of crimes against women, and the disqualification of parliamentarians charged with sexual offenses.
The groundbreaking LSE centre on women, peace and security will gather key thinkers, activists, policymakers and academics together in order to better tackle intransigent global problems such as the prosecution of warzone rapists and women's engagement in politics.
The Investigative Committee is associated with high-profile cases such as the prosecution of members of the band Pussy Riot (for "hooliganism," in the form of a forty-second "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral), of almost three dozen people who took part in a May , 2012 anti-Putin rally (for "mass unrest"), and of an international Greenpeace team detained in September.
Key tools such as policy, prosecution, program design, and prevention are impacted by questions emerging from applied ethical dilemmas.
Moreover there are alternative ways to enforce this norm, such as later prosecution of the perpetrators in the International Criminal Court.
There are some areas where civil rights experts don't expect to see such a dramatic shift, such as in prosecutions of individual law enforcement officials on civil rights charges.
A spokeswoman for the American Embassy, Caitlin Hayden, said that the American government had not interfered with the Afghan government's decisions on such personnel matters as prosecution.
In theory citizens are represented by their MPs, but all too many people enter parliament for perks such as immunity from prosecution.
The report does allow that progress has been made over the decade, such as the Crown Prosecution Service's attempts to improve justice for rape victims.
"His job is - or should be - to consider the evidence for or against misconduct dispassionately and then present his findings to the proper authorities, such as the Crown Prosecution Service or the coroner".
