Impunity

See: Denialism, Above the Law, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Justice, Legal Remedy, Political Corruption, Patronage, Judiciary, Jurisdiction, Immunity from Prosecution.

References

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/impunity Retrieved:2021-5-13.
- Impunity means "exemption from punishment or loss or escape from fines". In the international law of human rights, it refers to the failure to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice and, as such, itself constitutes a denial of the victims' right to justice and redress. Impunity is especially common in countries that lack a tradition of the rule of law, suffer from corruption or that have entrenched systems of patronage, or where the judiciary is weak or members of the security forces are protected by special jurisdictions or immunities. Impunity is sometimes considered a form of denialism of historical crimes.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-05-13/age-impunity
- QUOTE: ... The fight against impunity — the capacity of actors to commit crimes without facing justice — and for accountability provides an agenda at once more practical and inclusive than previous efforts to bring values into foreign policy. ... In 1998, the French jurist Louis Joinet laid out four principles for preventing impunity: the right to know about crimes and abuses, the right to justice, the right to reparations, and the right to nonrecurrence of those crimes or abuses. All four “Joinet Principles” are currently under threat. Governments are barring journalists from conflict zones and shutting the Internet down. The International Criminal Court is under fire. And reparations and nonrecurrence are in the realm of fantasy.