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Compassion BenchmarkSaturday, June 6, 2026No. 53

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Bolivia's CODIFIED-IMPUNITY-ESCALATION crosses Developing to Critical in the pipeline's second band crossing in four days: President Paz signed a presumption-of-legality military-force law, 10 protesters killed and 365 arrested, superseding the June 5 proposal at a materially larger −10.0 magnitude; Venezuela confirmed at 18.0 as UN FFM crimes-against-humanity findings document already-priced harm amid a partial de-escalation; Haiti confirmed at near-floor 4.7 on record 1.5 million displaced, gang-driven.

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1,160 reviewed20 assessed1 score change12 forward watches

Today's numberCRITICALpriority signalBolivia
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codified-impunity-scoringreversal-evidence-thresholdband-crossing-methodology

The CODIFIED-IMPUNITY-ESCALATION ruling scores on the signed law as a durable state-conduct change — but the methodology has not yet specified whether judicial annulment of the law, absent toll reversal, is sufficient to reverse scores that also rest on attested deaths and detentions.

“If Bolivia's ACC and INT dimensional scores rest on the signed June 8 presumption-of-legality law as a codified impunity structure, does judicial annulment of that law — without any reduction in the attested death and detention toll — constitute sufficient evidence to reverse the dimensional moves that drove the Developing-to-Critical band crossing?”
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Lead signalcritical

Bolivia 28.4 → 18.4 (−10.0) — CODIFIED-IMPUNITY-ESCALATION: Signed Military-Force Law with Presumption-of-Legality Shield Crosses Developing to Critical

What the evidence shows
The new law would allow soldiers to use force against protesters, and also grants them a 'presumption of legality' in conflict situations.
Al Jazeera2026-06-07Journalism
Sources (3)
The new law would allow soldiers to use force against protesters, and also grants them a 'presumption of legality' in conflict situations.
Al Jazeera2026-06-07Journalism
from May 1 to June 2, the unrest resulted in 10 deaths, 37 injuries and 365 arrests
ABC News2026-06-08Journalism
The law gives the president a framework to declare an emergency and deploy the armed forces in operations intended to re-open highways and restore the movement of food, fuel and medical supplies.
JURIST2026-06-08Cross-referenced
What we found

President Arce Paz signed into law (June 8, 2026) legislation authorizing the military to use force against protesters and granting soldiers a presumption-of-legality shield — their actions deemed lawful unless proven otherwise. This codified impunity structure is a durable state-conduct change that pre-commits the apparatus to non-acknowledgment of harm, pulling ACC to 1.3 and INT to 1.5 and driving the entity across the Developing/Critical boundary.

Why it matters

The toll stands at 10 killed, 37 injured, and 365 arrested (independent public-ombudsman); 25 union leaders including COB executive secretary Mario Argullo face terrorism charges; La Paz and El Alto are near-fully blockaded amid Bolivia's worst economic crisis in four decades. This proposal supersedes the June 5 Bolivia proposal (28.4→22.8, −5.6, remained Developing): the signed-into-law impunity apparatus is materially distinct from and more severe than incident-level casualties alone.

CountriesAl JazeeraJournalism
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Score trajectory — bolivia
bolivia score trajectory: down from 30.9 (2026-05-26) to 6.3 (2026-06-14)
Forward watch12 upcoming triggers
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  • 6 days
    EU Returns Regulation (India, Jordan context)HIGH2026-06-12

    EU Returns Regulation enters force; documented EU-facilitated return without individual assessment where a third-country national faces persecution constitutes a scored signal under the RETURN-HUBS…

  • 9 days
    Oracle CorporationCRITICAL2026-06-15

    WARN Act last-working-day window closes for approximately 30,000 affected workers. Adjudicated finding on the remote-reclassification-as-WARN-avoidance theory in NJ state proceedings or the Washing…

  • 55 days
    Democratic Republic of CongoHIGH2026-07-31

    Ebola Bundibugyo peak window through July with confirmed Kampala cluster and 20% contact-tracing coverage. Documented deliberate state obstruction of the WHO response breaks the NATURAL-DISASTER-OV…

  • 55 days
    3M CompanyCRITICAL2026-07-31

    Phase-2 MDL deadline; merits adjudication or settlement of the Australia $1.43B PFAS claim or the Minnesota MPCA PFOS suit; ruling on military-contractor immunity defense. A modeled downgrade of −2…

  • 57 days
    All AI LabsHIGH2026-08-02

    EU AI Act GPAI transparency and systematic-risk documentation obligations take full effect. Fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global annual turnover. No assessed AI lab has published compliance…

  • 86 days
    SudanHIGH2026-08-31

    West and Central Africa lean season peak. Sudan and South Sudan sustain floor designation. Nigeria (21.9) at 1.9 points above Critical; further IPC Phase 5 area expansion or documented state obstru…

  • TBD
    BoliviaCRITICAL

    Judicial annulment or legislative repeal of the June 8 presumption-of-legality military-force law is the primary reversal signal from the proposed 18.4 Critical baseline. Further military deploymen…

  • TBD
    United StatesCRITICAL

    Appellate review of Murphy (D. Mass.) and Cobb (D.D.C.) deportation injunctions. Reinstatement of the rescinded 30-day post-release death-reporting requirement would be the first upward-direction s…

  • TBD
    IndiaHIGH

    Confirmation of 145-plus state-attributable enforced disappearances at scale beyond the priced refoulement pattern. Judicial findings on wrongful citizen expulsion also constitute a potential trigg…

  • TBD
    VenezuelaHIGH

    ICC warrant issuance or a renewed mass-detention wave reversing the release trajectory — new scored event. Sustained and verified prisoner-release trajectory covering the documented 884 political p…

  • TBD
    UnitedHealth GroupCRITICAL

    Merits adjudication or settlement of any of the three converging sovereign enforcement actions — DOJ MA-billing criminal probe, MA AG antitrust suit, AZ AG eight-insurer cartel suit — is the leadin…

  • TBD
    AnthropicCRITICAL

    DC Circuit ruling on Anthropic v. Hegseth (Pentagon supply-chain-risk designation). Favorable ruling triggers Functional/Established crossing from 59.1; adverse ruling produces downward movement.

Signal stack

15 signals
medium

Countries — Band Crossing: Bolivia Developing to Critical

Bolivia's codified-impunity law crosses the Developing/Critical boundary at −10.0; the second band crossing in four pipeline days and the cycle's sole scored movement

medium

Countries — Critical Band Confirmations and Methodology

Venezuela confirmed at 18.0 on accountability-documentation-of-past-harm discipline; Haiti confirmed at near-floor 4.7 on non-state-driven displacement

medium

Countries — Absolute Floor Cohort (0.0)

Five floor confirmations; Sudan deepened by UAE-documented RSF arms supply; UAE complicity in El Fasher genocide newly documented

medium

Fortune 500 — Boundary and Enforcement Cluster

Oracle WARN deadline nine days out; UnitedHealth enforcement density sustained across four converging sovereign actions; health-insurer price-fixing cartel pattern documented

medium

Health Emergencies — Ebola Bundibugyo PHEIC

Ebola Bundibugyo spreads to Kampala; Uganda sits at the Critical boundary with 8 of 9 new cases in the capital; DRC source outbreak at 515/91

medium

Latin America — State Repression Methodology

Bolivia's codified-impunity-escalation ruling distinguishes durable apparatus-level state conduct from incident-level casualties; extends the methodology applicable to Developing-band entities

medium

ICE Detention and Transparency — US Immigration Enforcement

ICE rescinds post-release death-reporting requirement; 18 detention deaths YTD reinforces open 06-04 proposal as same-regime continuation

medium

EU Regulatory Calendar

EU Returns Regulation enters force June 12; EU AI Act GPAI obligations take full effect August 2; both carry structured scoring triggers

Risk signals

Developments that may affect future scores. Watch items from the Jun 6 briefing.

Risk

Bolivia's signed presumption-of-legality military-force law represents a codified impunity structure that pre-commits the apparatus to non-acknowledgment of harm; the proposed 18.4 Critical baseline rests on the law remaining in force.

Risk

Two open band-crossing proposals (Bolivia 06-06 at 28.4→18.4 and United States 06-04 at 23.4→17.5) are now accumulating corroborating evidence simultaneously — the highest simultaneous band-crossing-proposal count in the current cycle sequence.

Risk

Ebola Bundibugyo has reached Kampala with 8 of 9 new Uganda cases in the capital; Uganda sits 0.3 points above Critical at the boundary, with documented deliberate state obstruction as the conversion trigger.

Risk

Oracle's WARN Act sign-or-forfeit window closes June 15 — the most proximate hard trigger date across all assessed entities — with the remote-reclassification avoidance theory carrying 0.6 points of boundary buffer.

Risk

India's 145 reported disappearances among approximately 5,000 deportees document a potential new harm category — state-attributable enforced disappearances — beyond the priced refoulement and expulsion pattern already encoded at 15.6.

Risk

Sudan's active-perpetration floor is deepened by the UAE's documented arms supply to the RSF — an external-actor-complicity pattern that reinforces the conflict-driven genocide evidence without producing a new proposal from the absolute floor.

Risk

EU AI Act GPAI transparency and systematic-risk documentation obligations take full effect August 2, 57 days from this cycle, with no assessed AI lab having published compliance documentation.

Risk

Venezuela's partial de-escalation trajectory (post-Maduro prisoner releases) has not yet crossed the threshold to a scored improvement; a reversal of the release trajectory or an ICC warrant issuance would each constitute a new scored event.

Score movements

Entities with score changes this cycle, followed by confirmed positions.

20 assessed
1.6 above Critical
Countries
Bolivia

President Paz signed law authorizing military force with presumption-of-legality impunity shield; 10 killed and 365 arrested.

28.418.4-10ACC −0.50
BoundaryAl JazeeraJournalism
Sources (3)
Al Jazeera2026-06-07Journalism
ABC News2026-06-08Journalism
JURIST2026-06-08Cross-referenced
0.0 above Critical
Countries
Venezuela

UN FFM confirmed crimes-against-humanity findings document already-priced harm; partial de-escalation as political prisoners released post-Maduro.

1818EQU 0.00
Countries
Haiti

IOM records 1.5 million displaced — a record — driven by gang violence amid near-collapsed state.

4.74.7BND 0.00
0.3 above Critical
Countries
Uganda

Ebola Bundibugyo spreads to Kampala; 8 of 9 new cases in the capital; WHO PHEIC active; 0.3 points above Critical.

20.320.3SYS 0.00
Boundary

Next signal: — Ebola peak window; documented deliberate state obstruction of the WHO response breaks the exogenous-overlay hold at the boundary

Countries
United States

ICE rescinded 30-day post-release death-reporting requirement; 18 detention deaths YTD at the highest rate in two-plus decades.

23.423.4ACC 0.00
Countries
India

Deportee count reached ~5,000; confirmed citizens expelled without verification; 145 reportedly disappeared; UN condemned.

15.615.6EQU 0.00

Next signal: — EU Returns Regulation enters force; confirmation of state-attributable enforced disappearances at scale constitutes a newly scorable event beyond the priced 15.6 baseline

2.5 above Critical
Countries
Iran

612 executions YTD; 49+ hanged since late May; 124th consecutive week of anti-execution protests across 56 facilities.

2.52.5BND 0.00
2.3 above Critical
Countries
Democratic Republic of Congo

Ebola Bundibugyo reached 515 cases and 91 deaths; Uganda spread active; CDC worst-case 20,000; contact tracing at 20%.

2.32.3SYS 0.00

Next signal: — Ebola peak window through July; documented deliberate state obstruction of WHO response breaks the natural-disaster-overlay hold

Fortune 500
UnitedHealth Group

DOJ criminal probe, AZ AG eight-insurer cartel suit, MultiPlan grand-jury subpoena, and Lifepoint federal complaint sustain near-floor enforcement density.

10.210.2ACC 0.00
0.6 above Critical
Fortune 500
Oracle Corporation

WARN Act June 15 sign-or-forfeit window nine days out; ~30,000 workers affected; NJ and Washington proceedings active.

20.620.6EMP 0.00
Boundary

Next signal: — WARN Act last-working-day window closes; NJ state proceedings and Washington class action on remote-reclassification avoidance theory

Countries
Russia

June 2 Kyiv attack killed 22 civilians including children; Putin rejected peace talks June 6; 60,659 UN-verified civilian casualties since 2022.

00BND 0.00
Countries
Myanmar

June 1 junta airstrikes on Kyaung Cha Twin IDP camp in Rakhine while residents slept; 2 killed, 5+ wounded.

00BND 0.00
Countries
Sudan

UAE documented arming the RSF; UN confirms 6,000+ El Fasher killings with hallmarks of genocide against Zaghawa and Fur.

00EMP 0.00
Countries
Yemen

HRW and Amnesty demanded release of 73 UN and CSO staff held in Houthi detention; WFP terminated 365 staff contracts.

00BND 0.00
Countries
Israel

856 Palestinians killed since Oct 2025 ceasefire; aid trucks cut from 4,200 to 590 per week; 37+ aid groups banned.

00BND 0.00
Countries
Botswana

Rotation confirm; formal repeal of anti-LGBTQ+ Penal Code provisions in March 2026; stable Established band.

67.567.5EQU 0.00
Countries
Namibia

Rotation confirm; EQU 2.5 laggard on priced extreme income inequality and land disparities; Functional band stable.

5050EQU 0.00
Countries
Mongolia

Rotation confirm; balanced profile with no laggard below 3.0; air-pollution and mining-governance challenges priced.

54.754.7SYS 0.00
Countries
North Macedonia

Rotation confirm; EQU 2.0 laggard on rule-of-law weakness and Roma discrimination flagged in EU enlargement reviews.

35.935.9EQU 0.00
Countries
Albania

Rotation confirm; EQU 2.0 laggard on Roma discrimination and elite-corruption scandals; EU accession frontrunner.

35.935.9EQU 0.00

Evidence ledger

Primary sources reviewed in this briefing cycle. 3 sources linked.

boliviaTier 4 · Journalism2026-06-07
The new law would allow soldiers to use force against protesters, and also grants them a 'presumption of legality' in conflict situations.
Al Jazeera2026-06-07Journalism

Bolivia's legislature passed and President Paz signed a law authorizing military force against protesters with a presumption-of-legality shield.

boliviaTier 4 · Journalism2026-06-08
from May 1 to June 2, the unrest resulted in 10 deaths, 37 injuries and 365 arrests
ABC News2026-06-08Journalism

State-attributable lethal force and mass detention: 10 killed, 37 injured, and 365 arrested during the protests.

boliviaTier 2 · UN/IO2026-06-08
The law gives the president a framework to declare an emergency and deploy the armed forces in operations intended to re-open highways and restore the movement of food, fuel and medical supplies.
JURIST2026-06-08Cross-referenced

The signed law codifies a framework for emergency military deployment against the protest blockades.

Floor designations

·8 entities at composite 0 with documented evidence pattern

Composite scores resolving at zero — methodology disclosure

These entities have all 8 dimensions resolving at the lowest behavioral anchor (1.0/5.0) across multiple assessment cycles. Read the methodology.

Ai Labs

Character AI

Floor
BNDACCEMPINT

Ai Labs

Palantir AI

Floor
AWREMPACCEQUINT

Ai Labs

xAI/Grok

Floor
AWREMPACCINT

Countries

Israel

Floor
AWREMPEQUBNDACCINT

Countries

Myanmar

Floor
AWREMPEQUBNDACCINT

Countries

South Sudan

Floor
AWRACTEQUACCSYSINT

Countries

Sudan

Floor
AWRACTEQUBNDACCINT

Robotics Labs

Ghost Robotics

Floor
BNDACCINT

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