Many Afghan observers argue this culture of impunity runs directly to the presidential palace.
French people now want to turn the page on a culture of impunity.
But the failure to merge the armies, coupled with the culture of impunity, opens the risk of renewed fighting.
This is dwarfed by the 4, 200 tonnes harvested last year, but is beginning to erode the smugglers' sense of impunity.
He said Afghans had suffered for far too long from a culture of impunity and the lack of rule of law.
The meeting will include the launch of a new UNESCO report on The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.
To end the culture of impunity, the National Congress has passed a law criminalising kidnappings, torture and illegal detentions, our reporter adds.
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It may even be the beginning of the end of a long, hellish period of impunity in the tragic heart of Africa.
Congress added a splash of impunity to the mix in 1996, when it passed a pro-Internet law known as the Communications Decency Act.
The conference is programmed within the framework of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.
Much more must be done for preventive mechanisms and for actions to address the root causes of violence against journalists and of impunity.
Mr Hague said that top of his "personal agenda" is another initiative, to end a "culture of impunity" over sexual violence and abuse during war.
The group challenged Mr Aquino to move quickly to enforce the new legislation, which it said would address the problem of impunity in the Philippines.
Consequently, the first UN Inter-Agency Meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 13-14 September 2011.
This working meeting aims to finalize a concrete Implementation Strategy 2013-2014 for the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.
This culture of impunity extends across PSC activity as well.
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Another problem was the culture of impunity surrounding auditing failures.
But Supreme Court Judge Walter Onnoghen said on Friday: "To allow the governors seeking tenure elongation will allow a culture of impunity in the system", AFP news agency reports.
But voters seem pleased that an era of impunity is ending: 72% told one poll that they approved of treating Mr Chirac as an ordinary citizen before the law.
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They will then define the implementation strategy for the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity for the next two years.
This means ending a culture of impunity for those responsible -- and the governments of the countries where such sexual violence occurs must be part of the solution, she said.
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These culminated in a draft version that was discussed during the 2nd UN Inter-Agency Meeting on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, which took place in Vienna in November 2012.
Talk of witnesses disappearing and plots hatched in secret may sound like the stuff of fiction but Kenyans have been burdened with a history of impunity that reformers are now trying to address.
We applaud the recent decision to include Nepal in the group of five first-phase countries to roll out the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity .
They pledged to work together and with relevant national authorities to ensure that the recommendations of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity were applied at country level.
The UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity represents the outcome of a process that began in 2010 at the request of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC).
The implementation of this Strategy on The Safety of Journalists and The Issue of Impunity will be coordinated by UNESCO in close cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR).
One major development in this international co-operation on press freedom is the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity , which was endorsed last year by the chief executives of all component UN bodies.
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