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The police presume the murderer escaped out from [...]

Indeed, rape is the only violation for which communities tend to stigmatize the victim rather than prosecute the perpetrator, and where victims feel shame.

In that context, we renew our demand to implement the recommendations of the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/HRC/12/48), identify those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip and bring them to justice, and prevent the continuation of impunity, in compliance with Assembly resolution 64/10.

We welcome the constructive role that such a team can play in building the capacity of countries in conflict situations and of those emerging from conflict, enabling them to bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes of sexual violence.

Armenian author Markar Melkonian, in his book dedicated to his brother and one of the perpetrators of the Khojaly massacre, gave a detailed account of how Armenian soldiers had killed the Khojaly town civilians.

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[...] [...] perpetrators of crimes, and their accomplices, [...]

[...] [...] responsible for crimes held accountable.

[...] while a criminal murderer of Cuban athletes [...] [...]

He called on the Government of Algeria to conduct a detailed and independent investigation into his killing and to bring those responsible to justice.

[...] [...] Colonel Qadhafi’s murderers would be tried [...]

Both the Taliban and Hezb-e Islami of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar claimed responsibility for the attack, but the actual perpetrators remain unknown.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in follow-up to the recent mapping report, the Government is preparing to establish a special chamber to investigate serious violations of international law, including mass killings, sexual violence and displacement, and to prosecute the perpetrators.

Although media coverage of killings of women has generally perpetuated stereotypes and prejudicial biases, it has provided contextual information, including, inter alia, the victim-perpetrator relationship and any history of violence.

In doing so, we reiterated our commitment to ensuring that there is no impunity for perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

(e) On 12 July, Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother of President Karzai and former Head of the Kandahar Provincial Council, was assassinated by an Afghan National Police commander who was well known by Ahmed Wali Karzai and his family.

Strengthening the rule of law must be accompanied by efforts to ensure sufficient capacity and bring to justice the perpetrators of the most serious crimes.

Third, the General Assembly has called for putting an end to colonialism, in resolution 1514 (XV), and for suppressing the crime of apartheid and punishing its perpetrators, in resolution 3068 (XXVIII).

On 5 July, a member of the Assembly of Kosovo belonging to the Serb community, Petar Miletić, was shot at by unknown perpetrators in front of his house in northern Mitrovica.

It sets out the elements of an accountability regime aimed at influencing the conduct of perpetrators and would-be perpetrators.

We are convinced that it is the ideal and necessary means for urging the Syrian authorities to immediately cease their violent offensive against the civilian population so that an independent inquiry can be launched into all human rights violations committed during the protests and calling for punishment of those responsible for violence in all its forms.

Again, he was allegedly subjected to severe physical and psychological torture by what he believed were the same unidentified persons he had encountered in the “dark prison”.258 135.

[...] officers realize the murderer was the roommate [...] [...]

Thus, further action should be taken by the relevant United Nations organs and bodies, including the Security Council, in order to bring the Israeli perpetrators of those crimes to justice and to put an end to Israel’s impunity and above-thelaw attitude.

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In Afghanistan, women‘s rights defenders continue to be regularly threatened and intimidated, and high-profile women, mainly political activists, have been assassinated, and their killers have not been brought to justice.82 The Taliban‘s interpretation of sharia law is used to justify harsher punishments for women seen to be mixing with men outside their immediate families.83 A common means of intimidation and control of local communities, mainly women, is the use of night letters.

These and other acts of violence, which unfortunately have not subsided in recent months, emphasize once more the need for determined, jointly shared political action against the perpetrators, wherever they may derive their support from.

That will not only promote accountability among the various actors, but also demonstrate the Council’s intolerance for impunity as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring that perpetrators are brought to justice through national or international legislation and that victims are granted redress.