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Demonstrators called on the Government to increase funding to female charities that look after victims of abuse and to overhaul the justice system to prosecute more male sex offenders.

Composed of several dozen judges, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officers from around the world, CICIG works within Guatemala's legal system to prosecute members of organized crime and dismantle clandestine networks embedded in the state.

After the Supreme Court ruled in Mr. Hamdan's case that Mr. Bush needed Congressional permission to set up military commissions, Congress authorized a new form of the tribunals system to prosecute war crimes.

Human rights groups monitoring the proceedings said the judge's uncertainty about the procedures for accepting guilty pleas in a death-penalty case here illustrated the difficulties of using a new legal system to prosecute terrorism suspects.

Some pay-day lenders reportedly threaten to use the criminal justice system to prosecute delinquent borrowers for writing bad cheques, a crime that carries a jail sentence in many states.Nineteen states prohibit pay-day lending outright, usually as the result of longstanding usury laws.

The Senate rejected two amendments pertaining to background checks on Monday – one by Democrats that would require background checks for all firearm sales, except loans and gifts between immediate family members, and another by Republicans that would simply put more resources into the existing federal system to prosecute violations.

International justice must also be twinned with building the capacity of national systems to prosecute crimes.

"How is the judicial system able to prosecute the right person?" he said.

Meanwhile, federal courts have ordered some detainees released and declared the flawed judicial system established to prosecute these detainees unconstitutional".

It may not take on cases if the country concerned has a competent, independent justice system ready to prosecute alleged perpetrators and give them a fair trial.

Without a legal system prepared to prosecute those who raped and assaulted, he added, "there would be a temptation for people to commit these crimes".