Megawati promised to pursue human rights violators, but few actions have been taken to enforce this promise.

Specifying platforms including Facebook and Twitter, the bill proposes that violators be jailed for 1 3 years.

The International Tribunal in The Hague was intended as a Sword of Damocles for human rights violators in the Balkans.

In that regard, we support the implementation of the Secretary General's recommendation aimed at identifying violators and adopting sanctions against them.

But a society s decision to waive punishment for human rights violators is not necessarily a sign that its moral awareness remains stunted.

At the same time, regulators increased inspections, closed down some 180 food manufacturers and now post the names of violators on their Web site.

Here America found itself allied with some strange bedfellows that it normally rebukes as chronic human rights violators Cuba, China, Iran, Libya, Sudan or Zimbabwe.

Today's UN, which entrusts the protection of fundamental human rights to countries that are themselves among the prime violators of these rights, is no longer acceptable.

Equally noteworthy is the adoption by the Council of measures to identify and punish violators of arms embargoes as well as those who support such violations.

For several other violators such as China, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia the CHR couldn't even muster the will to put their abuses on its agenda.

Internet services that do not comply with the law will be added to a registry of violators and could be blocked at the behest of Russia's Internet watchdog, Roscomnadzor.

If it were up to Orbach, all human activities on the high seas would need a permit from a regulatory body with the authority to monitor and sanction violators.

The law also proposes the creation of so called black lists of sites violating the automated information system List of violators of the rights of the subjects of personal data .

We shall punish the violators with a three strikes method , where strike 1 is a notification, strike 2 is a warning and strike 3 is subject to a criminal case.

According to Venice s advisor for tourism, Paola Mar, data on fines will be sent to the embassies of the home countries of the violators in order to warn their fellow citizens against similar mistakes.

The Concertación has dealt prudently with the political legacies of the dictatorship, gradually rescinding the self serving rules that Pinochet created to protect himself, the military, and the right, and making some progress in prosecuting human rights violators.

Violators of international law must be made aware that the Middle East is subject to the same norms as other regions, and that the principles of democracy belong as much to its people as to those of more politically developed nations.

First time offenders will receive a fine of up to S 1,000 (about US 800), while repeat violators will be detained for up to three months and a fine not exceeding S 2,000 (about US 1,600) can be imposed on them.

Here America found itself allied with some strange bedfellows that it normally rebukes as chronic human rights violators Cuba, China, Iran, Libya, Sudan or Zimbabwe. Yet, without US support, the initiative was overwhelmingly endorsed in late July by the UN's Economic and Social Council.

However, the deep wounds of the past few years of violence will not heal unless serious efforts are made by the government in Jakarta to bring human rights abusers to justice. Megawati promised to pursue human rights violators, but few actions have been taken to enforce this promise.

The General Administration of Quality and Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine conducted a survey and reported that nearly one fifth of all products made in China for domestic use did not measure up to safety and quality standards. At the same time, regulators increased inspections, closed down some 180 food manufacturers and now post the names of violators on their Web site.

During the last annual session of the CHR, held in Geneva last spring, the body voted one by one to ignore severe human rights violations in such places as Russia Chechnya, Zimbabwe, Iran and Equatorial Guinea. For several other violators such as China, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia the CHR couldn't even muster the will to put their abuses on its agenda.

And without better intelligence and backing from the UN Security Council to impose significant, timely, and certain penalties on nuclear violators, the IAEA will have difficulty in fulfilling its security mandate. So, although the IAEA will continue to play a vital role, it will be more of a band aid than a cure for the atomic risks that we will all have to assume.

Vieira de Mello who has had a distinguished career in the UN system and is a brilliant diplomat must be willing and able to draw on his own region and on others to make sure that the UN human rights system serves the victims rather than the violators. But he will also need to entice the West into becoming more pro active and the US in particular into re establishing its role as a constructive rather than destructive force in human rights affairs.