Sentences with phrase «as a weapon of war»

Not only are the minerals gathered through abusive means and slave labor, they're also gathered where rape is used as a weapon of war over the mines.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

Parental alienation is another form of covert violence where children are used as a weapon of war by one parent to alienate the other parent.

Found lots of good stuff, but in particular were the McNamara Report (Oct 1966) and the senate records etc showing we first used weather modification as a weapon of war in 1968.

Subsequently, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has recognized rape as a war crime, 58 thus recognizing that «women are particularly vulnerable to persecution by sexual violence as a weapon of war.»

Let's not forget that the United States is so far the ONLY country in history to have actually USED a nuke as a weapon of war, rather than just a threat.

Anambra, where, according to the women of that state, mass rape was deployed as a weapon of war by the Fulani herdsmen, was particularly bad.

The ISIS group that has taken over several Iraq cities has also gained power over both its major rivers, allowing it to use water as a weapon of war

rocket Something propelled into the air or through space, sometimes as a weapon of war.

Perhaps as the weapons of war advanced in the Cold War, so did the need for Wonder Woman's armored protection.

In February 2013, the assistant U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Erika Feller, cautioned that the conflict in Syria is «increasingly marked by rape and sexual violence employed as a weapon of war to intimidate parties to the conflict destroying identity, dignity and the social fabrics of families and communities.»

Vivi eventually finds out that he is one of many black mages who were artificially created as a weapon of war.

Every week at Burma Campaign UK we receive more reports of how the Burmese Army is using gang - rape as a weapon of war.

According to Tearfund's Katie Harrison, who has visited many conflict and post-conflict situations around the world, rape is «constantly used as a weapon of war».

Language is enlisted not to communicate truth but as a weapon of war.

However, media's role has not always been positive, in some cases it has even been used as a weapon of war and a method to suppress freedoms, and escalate violent conflict.