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Posts tagged as “impunity”

Impunity against sexual abuse

edit in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2023.In yet another harrowing incident, a man exposed himself and assaulted a woman in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The incident recorded on a CCTV camera was shared on social media and gained widespread attention. Sindh Information Minister and Chief Minister took notice of the shameful act and directed the Sindh inspector general of police and Karachi additional inspector general of police to “immediately arrest the culprit and deal with him…

Top UN official flags ‘accountability deficit’ in Lanka

By MEERA SRINIVASAN in The Island, June 25, 2023Accountability remains the “fundamental gap” in Sri Lanka’s attempts to deal with the past, a senior U.N. official has said while warning that “as long as impunity prevails, Sri Lanka will achieve neither genuine reconciliation nor sustainable peace.” Referring to the Sri Lankan government’s plans to set up a Truth Commission, to probe allegations of war crimes and grave human rights violations during the country’s civil war,…