But in unjustly locking up Sallam, a human rights defender, authorities are trampling not just on her rights, but also on the rights of countless victims of violations she has dedicated her life to protect despite the risks.
While opinion can be divided, Unicef holds that children who are unlawfully recruited by armed groups must be primarily considered as victims of violations against international law and not as alleged perpetrators and treated in accordance with international standards for juvenile justice with alternatives to judicial proceedings sought where possible.
He interviewed more than 160 victims of violations of human rights for his reports.
citizens who claim to be victims of violations of international law (such as crimes against humanity) perpetrated outside the U.S.
Since the bank's shareholders would be paying for the deal, he wrote, it made no sense to "have the victims of the violation pay an additional penalty for their own victimization".
Why should shareholders hand the government $33 million to settle claims that management hid information from them? To have the victims of the violation pay an additional penalty for their own victimization was enough to give the Court pause, Rakoff wrote in an acid 13-page ruling.
Roux said he was sorry – presumably he meant for flagrantly breaking the law in this manner while assuming that the victims of this violation would protect him because they wanted the work.
So it was quite important for us that this is not just an abstract legal issue for the judges but that it actually has a very serious impact on the victims of the violation.
Journalists, political activists and human rights defenders have all been victims of rights violations, which often go unpunished, said the report by a French lawyer, Louis Joinet.
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that may determine whether victims of horrible violations of human rights abuses will continue to be able to bring claims in American courts against their tormentors.
