When is it appropriate, or not, for corporations to operate in countries without rule of law?

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Those are not possible without the rule of law.

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The Department of Justice has now sought a middle ground, a way to more loudly affirm the rule of law without threatening to put the lawbreakers, on whose survival the economy depends, out of business.

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Khalil al-Marzook, a senior Wefaq leader, was cautiously optimistic about the prince's comments on Friday but warned that "establishing the rule of law without civil and political rights is putting the horse before the cart".

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Respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms without distinction of any kind is a fundamental rule of international human rights law.

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