Sentences with phrase «as social violence»

Even newer than this development is the nascent discovery of sexual dimensions in issues that previously had not appeared to have sexual connections, such as social violence.

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«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

«Every mayor here talks as if they are the tourism secretary... and doesn't plan for residents so that they can live with a little dignity,» said Celina Izquierdo, of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory, which monitors security issues.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

For example, anonymous social apps such as Whisper, which have faced pressure to step up content policing efforts, rely on TaskUs employees to manually flag inappropriate messages — nude photos, threats of violence, etc. — and keep them off its networks.

Profits from Solms - Delta estate, which produces 30,000 cases of wine annually under labels such as Cape Jazz and Africana, allow the workers and tenants to pay for health care, school fees, and a social worker to tackle issues of alcoholism and domestic violence.

Surviving students at the school quickly spoke out on social media and to news cameras about the violence and, more broadly, about political leadership that they saw as having let them down.

Although Global Times acknowledges that sexual violence is a problem in China, as it is in other countries, it also stresses that «social movements can only play a limited role in reducing sexual harassment.»

As Piereson usefully reminds us, they followed the lead of a mainstream media that bathed Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's subsequent murder in a torrent of introspection about an America fearful of the world, terrified of social change, and addicted to violence.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Domenach writes that violence must be condoned as a means of combating social injustice or of coping with the violence of others — provided, however, that it be used for the benefit of others, not for that of its practitioner.

In a statement, El - Gamal said the money would «in part fund social service programs such as domestic violence programs, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services.»

Canada is far less religious than the US (way more atheists per capita), and yet has fewer abortions per capita, far less gun violence per capita (despite being just as ethnically diverse), is a peacekeeping country, less divorce per capita, has universal health care, more social safety nets, and Canadians are considered much nicer than Americans.

This social structure, an extreme form of what characterizes several other parts of Latin America, is such a formula for social unrest that Colombia will experience continuing violence as long as it remains unchanged.

The questions of peace and security over against violence are to be understood on economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on social and political levels.

The privatization of crimes and violence and crimes as a domestic issue made these violations invisible, denying them their public face and any political significance or social reparation.

Just as Jesus rejected both the politics of the Sadducees and the revolutionary violence of the Zealots, so his followers must embody not with their weapons but with their lives a counter social ethic.

This doesn't matter when we're trying to ignore a national debate on the color of a blue / gold dress, but it definitely matters when we're scrolling past stories of sexual violence as if they're any other social media moment — intimate, distant, easily discarded.

The violence employed against the Minjung by the oppressive powers is not only physical but also economic, social, political and cultural; it is psychological and communal, corporate and spiritual, as the exercise of power becomes ever more sophisticated.

The question of peace and security over against violence is to be understood on the economic, cultural and spiritual levels as well as on the social and political levels.

Neither Catholic speaker critiqued atheist philosophies and the dehumanising consequences they engender, the loss of freedom, hope and social cohesion, and the violence that often characterises not just Marxist atheism but humanist secularism, as in the French Revolution, for example.

Within such a paradigm we would begin to analyse an issue such as media and violence in terms of its effects first on the broader symbolic environment that is needed for constructive social life, rather than just on isolated and selected individual actions.

Broadcasting was deregulated during the early 1980s, and as long as deregulation remains in effect, there is no way that the public can expect an industry that is engaged in a constant «business war» over ratings to take seriously its social obligation to reduce the amount of violence in its programming.

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

Rooted as it is in male sexism, homophobia undermines male friendships, bolsters the oppression of women and contributes fearsomely to our social violence.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

The church as a spiritual community ought not to adopt the tools of violence for social change even though the world always presupposes violence.

Marx seems to encourage his followers to engage in violence as an instrument of social change, whereas Jesus seems to command his disciples to renounce violence.

Still, there are signs that Chilean Pentecostalism is gaining awareness of itself as a major actor in popular strategies to confront social problems, such as alcoholism and family violence.

Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

She has also had various media and public appearances speaking on a wide range of issues from multiculturalism, Islamophobia and racism to social issues such as sexual abuse, generation conflicts, domestic violence and gender.

Karly has experience as a social worker supporting children and families who are survivors of domestic violence, and families who are experiencing homelessness.

I think that services outside the home, such as the police or therapy or social services, will be needed when kids reach the stage of violence.

According to the study, more parental monitoring led to less total screen time for kids and reduced exposure to media violence, which in turn led to benefits such as improved sleep, lower BMI, better school performance, improved social behavior, and reduced aggression.

And it is important for them to be aware of some of the negative aspects of electronics and the internet, such as violence in games and movies, bullying and sexting in social media, before they encounter them.

In other groups such as urban gangs, «subcultures of violence» exist where higher levels of violence are accepted as a social norm.

In these groups, male violence is seen as a positive way of restoring social reputation or economic position.

The Night Social Media Exploded Over Ferguson and Watch: The Night Social Media Lit Up as Violence Flared in Ferguson.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

Like crime, war and social violence have been seen as pathological, a failure of normalisation and normativity.

Finally, as President Ben Ali fled and the country risked disorder and random violence, people across the country used social media to dispel misinformation and organize themselves to counter security forces, regime - supporters and looters alike.

In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

The ad highlights his family and personal ties to the district and his trips around the area, part of a 163 - town campaign as well as his stances on Social Security, health care, as well as combatting opioid addiction and gun violence.

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

By Shittu Ahmed Obassa Some stakeholders in social mobilisation have described music as a potent tool in tackling crime, especially in violence prone areas.

Terrorism is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations as «the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives» (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry

The Council Conclusions stress that harmful use of alcohol is recognised as an important risk factor in the need to reduce the burden of alcohol - related avoidable deaths, chronic diseases, injuries, violence, health inequalities and other social consequences to third parties.

A poster campaign by Northumbria Police which referred to perpetrators of domestic violence as «he» has been slammed as sexist on social media over the last few days.

The move comes as social networks are under pressure from governments around the world to use technology tools to lock out individuals promoting religious violence, and others who use the platforms to recruit and launch attacks.