Sentences with phrase «as human rights abuses»

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Doing business in a country that faces allegations of human rights abuses such as Eritrea carries with it a certain amount of reputational risk.

«If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to stop these human rights abuses and restore the situation, he's got the ability to,» Hamm told Bloomberg in an interview in his capacity as head of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

«This is a systemic critique, pointing out how the board must accept responsibility for excessive political spending, inadequate energy policy, our changing climate, toxic hazards, and human rights abuses,» Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said.

As Canadians recognize, there are human rights abuses in Asia.

Your god as you describe it plainly would be an ASS HOLE, for threatening eternal torture for «sins» of a short mortal lifetime, and would be convicted of human rights abuse by any reasonable set of jurors.

Fidel Castro is a controversial and divisive world figure, lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but viewed as a dictator who has overseen multiple human rights abuses by his critics.

The state's right to invade this area of human relationship is justified only when it can be shown that rights beyond the realm of familial authority are being violated, as, for example, when children are being abused.

If you examine human rights abuses, you will usually find religion as the cause.

Some humanitarian organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have undoubtedly done good over the years, drawing needed attention to startling abuses of power in renegade regimes from Asia to the Americas.

The cocoa commodity market is rife with poverty and human rights abuses, including child slavery, as well as environmental impacts such as rainforest destruction.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

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He is the author of the award - winning book Politics in Ghana — 1972 - 1979, in which he depicts, inter-alia, the military as the bane of Government and Politics in Africa and recounted instances of human right abuses, conflictual politics, economic mismanagement and national decadence.

The Ministry has disbanded a number of witch camps, particularly, in the three northern regions as part of efforts to end human right abuses.

«Guantanamo Bay, which was an international abuse of human rights, acted as recruiting sergeant for dissidents and alienated Muslims and alienated many other people across the world,» said Mr Hain, speaking on BBC1's Sunday AM programme.

As for the «human rights» ensemble, just clearing their throats to bellow «fragrant abuses!»

«The Chinese authorities» list of human rights abuses is as long as your arm - torture, forced labour, internet repression, unfair trials, and of course the death penalty.

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

This era was also overshadowed by severe human rights abuses committed by members of the armed forces, including the «false positives» scandal, in which peasants were killed and then dressed up as guerrilla fighters to artificially inflate the body count.

As seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, difficulties providing soldiers with adequate resources may result in deteriorating discipline, corruption, defection, and human rights abuses.

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

Craig Murray served as the British ambassador to Uzbekistan and resigned over allegation of human rights abuses.

Until Monday night, Eric Schneiderman was regarded as a model progressive in the #MeToo era — a powerful Democrat who, as New York's attorney general, sued Harvey Weinstein for civil and human rights violations over the movie mogul's alleged abuse of women.

Here's an overview of how much Americans google the word «constitution» (BLUE), as compared to «poverty» (RED), «climate change» (YELLOW), «child abuse» (GREEN) and «human rights» (PURPLE).

«Council reaffirms the strong condemnation by the AU of all act of violence, committed by whomsoever, as well as of human rights abuses, including killings, extra-judicial executions, violations of the physical integrity of persons, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and / or degrading treatment, and arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, violations of the freedom of the press and freedom of expression and the prevalence of impunity,» the AU said.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday instructed the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, and governors of affected states to immediately commence investigations into the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in Internally Displaced Persons Camps as contained in a report by the Human Rights Watch.

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations,...

The Defence headquarters yesterday debunked new Amnesty International report accusing the Nigerian military of human rights abuse and war crimes against the Boko Haram terrorist's organization as unfair and...

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, yesterday launched a rebranded, re-kitted and re-equipped Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and the new Nigeria Police Complaint Response unit (CRU).

Following what he described as the public's concern about the less than professional working ethic, unorthodox dress code and accusation of flagrant abuse of human rights its operations, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, yesterday launched a rebranded, re-kitted -LSB-...]

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers.

The actions of these agents of state, observers say, are reminiscent of the executive lawlessness and human rights abuses that characterised the nation's military era, including the period that President Muhammadu Buhari spent in power as a military dictator.

The government has demanded an apology from a UN official who described a change to housing benefit as an abuse of people's human rights.

The government has demanded an apology from a UN official who described a change to housing benefit as an abuse of people's human rights and recommended that the policy be suspended.

When weak countries such as Zimbabwe practise human rights abuses, Britain is quite rightly in the fore of criticism against them.

As aniconic image of human rights abuse, it is hard to equal: a hooded man with electrodes attached to his fingers stands precariously on a small box.

McKinnon's lawyers had argued that sending him to the US would breach his human rights, be an abuse of the English court process and should be barred as his extradition was sought «for the purpose of prosecuting him on account of his nationality or political opinions».

As the number of «political» diagnoses increased during the mid-1960s, so did the activities of the Soviet human rights campaigners in bringing psychiatric abuse to the attention of the outside world.

perhaps it's not as revolutionary as other types of political action, but i'd like to think that supporting designers who produce their clothing thoughtfully and locally is a statement against the human rights and environmental abuses that are perpetuated by fast - fashion brands.

District 9 is an incredibly effective parable about human rights abuses against refugees, while also functioning as a thrilling science - fiction action film.

Human Rights Watch report3 notes that while its research hasn't found «a pattern of abuse that could be considered systematic» the rights body «findings raises serious concerns about abuses by AMISOM4 soldiers against Somali women and girls» with survivors of sexual exploitation expressing feelings of «powerless» to fearing «retaliation or retribution, as well as the stigma and shame that the abuse could bring» and others, despite being engaged in exploitive relationships feared loosing «their only source of income» (HRW, 2014, September, pRights Watch report3 notes that while its research hasn't found «a pattern of abuse that could be considered systematic» the rights body «findings raises serious concerns about abuses by AMISOM4 soldiers against Somali women and girls» with survivors of sexual exploitation expressing feelings of «powerless» to fearing «retaliation or retribution, as well as the stigma and shame that the abuse could bring» and others, despite being engaged in exploitive relationships feared loosing «their only source of income» (HRW, 2014, September, prights body «findings raises serious concerns about abuses by AMISOM4 soldiers against Somali women and girls» with survivors of sexual exploitation expressing feelings of «powerless» to fearing «retaliation or retribution, as well as the stigma and shame that the abuse could bring» and others, despite being engaged in exploitive relationships feared loosing «their only source of income» (HRW, 2014, September, p. 25).

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

But ongoing human rights abuses in ethnic areas, such as forced labour, rape, displacement, and portering in Kayah, Karen, Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine states, continue unabated as the army's presence in those areas continues to disrupt the lives of local people (dm IRIN 2013).

We are focusing our efforts to prevent the abuses by empowering the people through Human Rights Education, as knowledge is power.

Maathai has not only worked within Kenya's government in official capacities, but has also persisted as a vocal critic of its corruption, and its environmental and human rights abuses.

Pusher, a tabletop game created as a political art protest against the human rights abuses in the Philippines, uses a childlike aesthetic and fun gameplay to highlight the grotesque horror of the murders of anybody branded as a «pusher» or drug dealer by a repressive government.

The exhibition, organized by the High Museum of Art in collaboration with Los Angeles — based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino, considers the historic gesture of gold medal sprinter Tommie Smith as he raised a fist at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico to protest abuse of human rights around the world and in response to the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

Alongside the dinosaurs, creatures whose extinction is their most notorious characteristic, figures like Step Off — whose seemingly decorative bands at the neck, knee, and ankle take on the suggestion of shackles — can be understood both as contemporary and as incarnations of centuries of human rights abuses.