Wiktionary:Word of the day/July 17

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justice delayed is justice denied proverb

If a wrong is not corrected within a reasonable time, it is as though the wrong were not corrected at all. Today is the Day of International Criminal Justice, which was instituted in 2010 by the states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to recognize the importance of international criminal justice.

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