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His latest arrest is part of a broader pattern of intimidation and attacks by Congolese authorities against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society, including those campaigning against abuses in the mining sector.

Registration also helps protect against abuse in social media and in search engine advertising, in securing domain names, in deterring and enforcement against cyber-squatters, and in preventing the import of counterfeit goods.

Not exact matches

New York attorney - general Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed The Weinstein Company as part of a probe into whether studio officials had violated the law in their handling of abuse claims against its disgraced co-founder Harvey.

In speaking out against gun violence, the shooting victims have endured online abuse and have become the subject of conspiracy theories.

He has also raged against the US's legacy of abuse in the Philippines during the colonial period in the first half of the 20th century.

In various ways, Facebook and LinkedIn have acknowledged at least a modest obligation to police their ad platforms against abuse.

Born in Uganda to missionary parents in 1962, he grew up largely in British Columbia, and remains Canadian enough to proudly describe the abuse he absorbed one evening last spring at Madison Square Garden, when he wore his Montréal sweater to the Canadiens final, losing game against the New York Rangers in the NHL playoffs.

«Since protecting users is a top priority for Google, we have detailed policies against deceptive or misleading use of trademarks in ad text and take swift action when we see this type of abuse on our platform,» the representative said.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

The dispute involves a lawsuit filed against Royal Dutch Petroleum over claims that the oil company was complicit in abuses committed by the Nigerian government against its citizens in the oil - rich Niger Delta.

In response, Facebook defended its regulations against online abuse.

Raisman has filed a lawsuit against both organizations, claiming they «knew or should have known» about abusive patterns by Nassar, a disgraced former national team doctor now in prison for sexually abusing young athletes.

Trump used some of his toughest language yet against North Korea in a wide - ranging address in Seoul on Wednesday that lodged specific accusations of chilling human rights abuses, although he offered no evidence to support the accusations.

The petition, created by an anonymous person on Tuesday, reads: «If you believe The Weinstein Company should completely dissolve after 30 years of sexual abuse against innocent women please join me in signing this petition to honor the victims and their bravery.»

The first line of defense against elder financial abuse may be to raise awareness in our communities about the warning signs, common scams and preventative measures that might protect us from these crimes.

And even in cases where abuse is well documented — as in Ellen Pao's unsuccessful sexual harassment lawsuit against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — the men responsible are rarely punished, and the overall picture rarely improves.

This is to ensure that adequate protective nets are in place to guard against any abuse or misuse of data.»

That centralizes the potential for and magnitude of abuse, with Big Data used to discriminate against groups, steer vulnerable people to financial scams, and meddle in U.S. elections.

On Tuesday night, after the abuse allegations against Porter were made public by the Daily Mail, Kelly said in a statement: «Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed.

For centuries, he argues, courts in the United Kingdom, United States, and elsewhere recognized that wealthy people could use third - party lawsuits as a weapon against those they disliked — and had rules in place to prevent this power from being abused.

On September 8, 2016, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a $ 185 million fine against Wells Fargo for the fraudulent creation of millions of credit and deposit accounts by its employees, who abused their access to existing customer information in order to meet aggressive sales quotas and incentives.

The company later filed two lawsuits against Qualcomm in China, alleging its supplier abused its market position and failed to license standard essential patents on fair terms.

The Florida case against Ferraro stemmed from allegations of abuse during his time as a U.S. Navy chaplain in Key West.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

And yeah, they abuse the system — they just backed a * State * down from bringing charges against them by the simple expedient of tying them (WBC) up with counter-charges in court.

Last week, an alleged victim of priest abuse in Wisconsin announced a lawsuit against the Vatican itself.

Some people say that it is pointless, as it can not actually do anything, but in my opinion it does do something; it shows moral and emotional support for those supporting the fight against child abuse.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

If priests aren't taking a stand against the practice of having children kneel in front of lesser men... they are just wasting time and allowing the abuse to continue.

In 2015, Cardinal Cormac admitted feeling ashamed of his response to sex abuse allegations levelled against a priest Michael Hill in the 1980In 2015, Cardinal Cormac admitted feeling ashamed of his response to sex abuse allegations levelled against a priest Michael Hill in the 1980in the 1980s.

Vatican officials failed to take action against a priest accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls in Minnesota despite repeated warnings from a local bishop starting in 2005, attorneys for one of the alleged victims said Monday.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

In addition, the list also names archdiocese clergy still facing public accusations of child sex abuse, as well as those who died before public accusations of sex abuse against them could be fully investigated or were leveled in the first placIn addition, the list also names archdiocese clergy still facing public accusations of child sex abuse, as well as those who died before public accusations of sex abuse against them could be fully investigated or were leveled in the first placin the first place.

«If, against my intention, I've hurt the Jewish people's feelings and those of the victims of child abuse, I'm truly sorry and ask forgiveness,» the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa said in an interview published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).

The former teacher at St Colman's College in Newry from 1967 to 1976 is also allegedly linked to a catalogue of physical and emotional abuse against pupils.

Participants in the conversation from all walks of life should seek to describe authentic human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body of principles and a consensus about the best applications of genetic knowledge emerge.

Milligan's first substantive charge against Pell is that he was complicit in a sex - abuse coverup in the diocese of Ballarat, Victoria during the 1970s and early 1980s.

I didn't write about Commenders with this current situation in mind, but because I have generally been seeing an increased level of push - back against them from the spiritual abuse survivor community over the past five years.

Comments by Larry Nassar accuser Rachael Denhollander in a Christianity Today interview have revived debate over a dismissed abuse lawsuit against Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) dating back to 2012.

In short, a belief that we're better people because we're (Christian, American, Educated, Atheist,...) leads us to avoid preventative measures against abuse, and justify abusive behaviours when they do occur.

I'm not a lawyer, but have had to do some research on SLAPP / anti-SLAPP because threats of defamation lawsuits against those who speak out seem to arise regularly in situations that involve alleged spiritual abuse.

Back in 2014, Nathaniel Morales, a former youth leader at SGM's flagship Covenant Life Church in Maryland, was convicted on five counts of sexual abuse against three underage male victims between 1983 and 1991.

A concern for compassion and justice for the victims, however, does not excuse a lack of faithfulness to the truth, and frequently the occasion of sexual abuse by Catholics has itself been abused in the service of dishonest propaganda against the Catholic Church, and our Priests in particular.

In the RCC, the abuse has NOTHING to do with the actual religion & the church has taken much, much action against all the abuse and abusers.

Gay men and lesbian women are physically and psychologically abused, they are excluded from families, frozen out of churches and discriminated against in a variety of legal ways.

I've been frustrated by the bloggers with influence who have used their voice and influence in this situation in a manner similar to Warnock, basically instituting the «always be nice» and «don't talk rules» against those who have experienced abuse.