Mercer's annual survey has been designed to cater to the multinational companies and governments that use the study's results to help determine appropriate compensation packages for employees sent abroad.

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Our policymakers and diplomats should attend to this, proposing methods, for example, by which the assets abroad of violators of the Protocol could be seized to satisfy victims' claims as adjudicated in an appropriate forum.

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