Sentences with phrase «act against humanity»

There is no excuse for murder, violence or any harmful act against humanity!
Not every christian is the same but every christian shares a belief in a god that apparently committed horrible acts against humanity.
Such cowardly actions are acts against humanity, and acts against America.
Time and time again, studies have shown that people who commit violent acts against animals will likely and most often times do, go onto commit violent acts against humanity.

Not exact matches

But this year, in an even fiercer act of rebellion, Cards Against Humanity removed the game from its online shop entirely, offering, instead, a $ 6 box of bullsh*t — «literal feces, from an actual bull,» the company's website read on Nov. 28, according to the CBC.
At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity
Today the Islam religion is questionable, due in part the acts of terrorism against humanity carried on by its members supported by their leaders, the moral question is larger then religion and life and its asinine leaders.
On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»
I don't indorse this sort of thing but reason and appeals to humanity haven't stopped their terrorism so maybe if every act of terror they commit against us is met with an act of terrorism against them they'll stop.
While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).
What checks and balances can be devised to prevent abuses and protect the wider interests of humanity against the premature, unwise, or diabolical acts of those in charge?
Mirror's premise is that using contemporary values, Andrew Jackson would be guilty of crimes against humanity and that the US has a long history of what today we would consider criminal acts.
The nature of the God in whom I believe, and the nature of my faith will never... I repeat, WILL NEVER... cause me to act in a way that is detrimental to humanity, or to harm others, or to commit crimes against humanity.
THAT «S what defines Islam today... CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY... a religion of promised murder and the lowlifes that act on the command of this «peace - loving prophet» that would slit your throat given half a chance if you stood up and challenged this phony.
On Monday October 6th, just days after Chris Grayling published Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, a foreign leader was already using them to defend himself against charges of crimes against humanity.
In 2014, a United Nations Commission of Inquiry on North Korea's human rights conditions found that the North Korean government's «act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation» amounted to crimes against humanity.
As a result, we have committed heinous acts of treason, criminality, and terrorism against humanity.
Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
SERAP believes that causing unspeakable hardships or aggravating the suffering of large numbers of Nigerians ought to constitute an inhumane act of a nature amounting to a crime against humanity, for which the most appropriate forum of redress is the ICC.»
Committee on Conscience»... mandate is... to alert the national conscience, influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity
Despite no previous acting experience, Katie Jarvis is the heart and troubled soul of Fish Tank, the gripping coming - of - age drama from Andrea Arnold and the most exciting new release in a week also highlighted by the arrival of Storm, Hans - Christian Schmid's thriller about crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s, and the on - screen return of Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness.
Further, rape in genocide must be understood to be what Andrea Dworkin coined as «gynocide;» the destruction of women as women, as a group or as members of the group.86 MacKinnon urges that grounds like ethnicity and sex be joined so that crimes against humanity like suttee, FGM, honor killings and rape perpetrated in rape / death camps can be defined as what they really are: «destructive acts against women «in part» on ethnic grounds combined with sex.»
According to the definition in article 7 of the widely accepted Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court crimes against humanity are murder; extermination; torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice (21).
It is therefore not surprising thatOHCHR, after a thorough inquiry, came to the conclusion that the above - mentioned barbaric acts against refugees constituted war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly crimes of genocide, subject to confirmation by a competent international criminal court or tribunal.34 So far, no charge has been brought forward.
During the Nuremberg Trials, the Allied prosecutors were doubtful they could convict Nazi doctors of «crimes against humanity» — since those accused had carried out acts based on theories of eugenics that had been practiced for decades in the United States.
For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.
These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.
So, hopefully that understanding can speed up the correction of what has developed, leading others, particularly the genuinely caring and deserving among the wealthy, to act more aggressively to protect humanity from the damaging sub-set of the population, particularly against the interests of the damaging undeserving wealthy ones.
When Trump, in his June 1 Rose Garden Speech, withdrew from the Paris Accord, saying «I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,» Moore was left with small change, calling it «a crime against humanity» and warning that «this admitted predator has now expanded his predatory acts to the entire planet.»
Article 1 (F) provides that the Convention does not apply if there are serious reasons for considering that a person has committed a crime against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity (1F (a)-RRB-, a serious nonpolitical crime (1F (b)-RRB- or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations (1F -LRB-(c)-RRB-.
(h) «The crime of apartheid» means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1 [crimes against humanity], committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;
The rational debate considers what measures are needed to track and, if necessary, take action when Canadians head overseas to join up with a group like Islamic State, thus almost inevitably becoming implicated in such international crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and nationally criminal acts of terrorism.
Interestingly, albeit Due Process and Crimes Against Humanity issues; as I recall, the Third Reich had promulgated legislation which permitted summary punishment were the police to catch a transgressor in the act or red - handed.
By s 51 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 (ICCA 2001) the UK has made genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the ICC treaty criminal offences against UK law triable in UK courts where such offences are committed by UK nationals or residents.
However, Tremeear's also includes the DNA Identification Act, the Firearms Act and the Interpretation Act, while Martin's opts for the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, a statute rarely used in Canada.
This could be the case if such acts consist of direct and public incitement to commit genocide, or hate speech as an underlying act of crime against humanity (if made in conjunction with other acts that severely deprive individuals of their human rights).
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