Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panelists discussed several issues regarding the sexual exploitation of women and girls, including the relevant legal statues, the victims' human rights and the legalization of prostitution...
Burni called for national legal systems to put in place rights for victims that would allow them to redress their victimizers. "The laws in place now result in the victims getting treated like returnable goods--sending them back to where they came from--instead of human rights victims," she said...
...Protection Project aims to create an International Legal framework that protects victims of trafficking. Lederer said project coordinators are currently in the process of surveying the laws connected to the trafficking of 222 countries, and over 160 countries have responded...
...scandal, in which some 4,400 individuals were infected with HIV from tainted blood productsin 1985; 40 percent of those people have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated, according to TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, "although Herv? was expected to be publicly blamed, because he had legal control of the health administration and should have been the most hands-on of all officials involved." But rarely has bureaucratic inertia had such terrible consequences. "When you realize the horror of what occurred, it's hard to see nobody paying for it," says Crumley. "But the experts say they simply...
...stateside activity that's raising more eyebrows: Analysts say that by splitting its domestic tobacco division and Nabisco food group into two separate entities, the company will ostensibly create a new stock that could remain impervious to market reactions over future tobacco suits. This could invite legal challenges by those with smoking-related illnesses who see the breakup as a ploy to protect the assets of the food division in anticipation of settlements from such lawsuits. But TIME finance columnist Dan Kadlec says RJR's payout days are likely over and the spin-offs are just a long-overdue business...