broken time ripost | delayed riposte

In conclusion, since the year 2000, while lost time injuries in Canada have been steadily declining, fatalities have remained fairly constant, with over 900 deaths each year.

Instead of passive fatalism, will the minister restore her budget, end the war on science, and get back in the game?

M. whereas many human rights defenders, intellectuals, religious figures, journalists and civil society activists have lost their lives, disappeared or been tortured at the hands of the regime’s security services, and whereas they are also increasingly becoming targets of crimes committed by several rebel groups; whereas 2011 Sakharov Prize winner Razan Zeitouneh – one of the most vocal early leaders of the uprising against the Syrian regime and an advocate of non-violence and civil resistance – was abducted, together with her husband Wael Hamahed and human rights activists Nazem Hamadeh and Samira Khalil, by an unidentified group of gu ...[+++]nmen from the Damascus suburb of Douma in December 2013 and has disappeared;

3. Calls for the stepping down of Bashar al Assad whose regime has failed to meet its responsibility to protect its population according to the International Law and lost any legitimacy; recalls the main findings of the report of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria which stated that crimes against humanity may have been committed in the country; takes the view that clear mechanisms for accountability must be at the heart of the UNSC’s efforts to end the Syrian crisis while endorsing once again the call by UN Human Rights Commissioner for referring Syria to the ICC with the aim to conduct independent and impartial investigations into the events in Syria, to hold account all suspected perpetrators of such grave crimes and to avoid mo ...[+++]re victims; urges at the same time the UNSC to put in place an UN arms embargo against the Syrian regime;