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...same topic. One of the challenges that prevails is the language of the convention itself, according to assistant professor of government and Social Studies Jens Meierhenrich. He cited Article 8 of the convention to point out that the agreement recognized genocide but never gave a way to prevent or punish it. “As a document it has become largely insignificant,” Meierhenrich said. Executive Director of the University Committee on Human Rights Jacqueline Bhabha, also noting flaws, said that the anniversary was not one to be celebrated. “We have moved ourselves into...
...parallels it to God's relationship with the Jews. He writes that Catholics and Jews stand as one community over against pagans and heretics, that Jesus and his apostles, including Paul, lived as Torah-observant Jews for the whole of their lives. And he urges that God himself would punish any king who tried to interfere with the Jews' practice of Judaism. These ideas preserved space for Jewishness in Christian culture, space that in the much more toxic culture of the Christian Middle Ages, helped save Jewish lives. Although that, too, was an unintended consequence. He could not possibly have...
...Abdur Rashid, a 67-year-old retired government servant in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "But it was really unfortunate to see that even before the operation [to clear out the attackers] was finished, the Indian government stated that Pakistan is involved. It sounds that the entire incident was concocted to punish Pakistan." See images of Mumbai after the siege...
...closest to breaking the deadlock in the 71st minute, when Roswess hit the post with a header.After 90 minutes of scoreless soccer during regulation, and another 10 minutes in an uneventful first overtime period, the game went into double-OT.“We didn’t punish them in the first half when we had the wind, so we had to battle against the wind in the second half and in the first OT,” Clark said. “It was an uphill battle, but we were able to hold...
...Although it is more appropriate to punish than to cure pedophilia, the use of chemical castration as a punishment is vastly unjust. As a member of the EU, Poland has a responsibility to maintain a legal system that respects human rights—even those of criminal pedophiles. Yet even those in positions of power have failed to fulfil this responsibility. In September, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said, “I don’t think you can call such individuals—such creatures—human beings. I don’t think you can talk...