Word: lawlessness
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...African immigrants settle in our country without showing any concern for their integration. They were housed in huge, cheap unconnected buildings outside the main cities and offered no opportunity to work. The result? Thousands of uneducated people lived in isolation in indecent conditions. Those housing projects turned into lawless cities in which gangs ruled by threat, violence and blackmail. The police, much less firefighters, doctors and nurses, did not dare enter. The French integration model is a fraud. The various steps that the state has taken and that are going to cost the taxpayers billions of dollars will temporarily mend...
...south, the developing and the developed world, over the responsibilities of rich countries to poor countries.” According to Ignatieff, migration is an especially explosive area, since every country regulates it differently. “This is the hottest zone, the most troubling zone, the most lawless zone, of international human rights,” he said. The discussion then shifted to Ignatieff’s controversial use of human rights considerations to justify military intervention. Ignatieff said he believes the test for when to intervene has two parts. The country must be a “human...
...condemned the U.S. invasion. Beyond that, many local leaders believe that the war has fueled terrorism in the region, as in the recent triple suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan. "You have ended up with a great big area--from the Jordanian border to the outskirts of Baghdad--being a lawless and terror-infested territory," says Ali Shukri, a former adviser to Jordan's King Hussein...
Controversial British lawyer Philippe Sands criticized the Bush administration’s attitudes on international law and warned officials that they could be liable before international courts, at a Law School forum last night. Sands is in the midst of a tour to promote his recent book, Lawless World, which describes the United States’ historical contributions to, and recent attacks against, international law and covenants. The Atlantic Charter of 1941, signed by President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, opened a “golden age” of international law, Sands said last night...
...Iraq can only use their weapons in strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic...