Sentences with phrase «cases of violence»

The said crime and other recent cases of violence caused trauma and stress among residents of Houston, as per The Washington Post.

As more cases of violence continue to rise, the education sector is increasingly worried on the fear and trauma it may cause school children.

Children are traumatized with the rising cases of violence all over and as a response, schools are training students, parents, caretakers and teachers on how to cope with trauma and stress.

This omission has the effect of rendering a very important part of the MRP Laws — the power to protect families in cases of violence — useless.

NWAC also developed a national database to track cases of violence against Indigenous women.

In murder cases and even «less serious» cases of violence against a member of the community, it is common to see the family of the victim in the front row of the courtroom during the trial.

According to him, he would ensure that no Nigerian was put through the brutality of abduction, violence in whatever form or forced marriage, even as he challenged all stakeholders to rise up and take a decisive action to stem what he termed, the unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against Nigeria children.

In a nod to the campaign's new emphasis on the racial dimension of the primary fight, the Clinton camp also said new legislators in Mississippi — the state with the highest percentage of African - Americans in the nation — would back her on Wednesday based on «her commitment to fight for women, families and African Americans as President,» and, to drive home the point, the campaign said three mothers of African American men killed in high - profile cases of violence, would campaign for her in the coming weeks.

He noted that decisive actions would be taken to stem what he described as unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against children.

The Mission «noted with concern the isolated cases of violence during the electoral process in some parts of the country,» and commended the security forces, especially the Liberia National Police for arresting the situation.

Some states like Delta, Imo and Oyo had witnessed cases of violence and ballot box snatching during Saturday's APC congresses.

Disturbed by the worsening cases of violence in Ikorodu area of Lagos, the police have accused traditional rulers and chiefs in the area of collaborating with...

«CWEENS, through OBSTEC, records, documents and responds to cases of violence against women and girls.

A Non-Governmental Organization, Christian Women for Excellence and Empowerment in Nigeria (CWEENS), on Friday said Plateau state have recorded 482 cases of violence against women and girls in the last two years.

In an assessment of the strategy to improve the way prosecutors tackle cases of violence against women and girls, Starmer will reveal that in the past year the Crown Prosecution Service has reported its highest conviction rate for domestic violence.

There have been several reported cases of violence being perpetrated by supposed members of the NPP against some members of the NDC.

(CNN)-- CNN's Erin Burnett examines two recent cases of violence against women.

For the most part the persecution seems to have taken the form of the enmity of the surrounding population finding vent in isolated cases of violence.

In April 2014, John Dayal, a leading human - rights activist in India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliament.

But democratic scruples prompted the declaration that this was not a case of violence but of justice.

We have discovered the oldest known case of violence between two groups of hunter gatherers took place there, with ten excavated skeletons showing evidence of having been killed with both sharp and blunt weapons.

The fossil fuel industry is a proven funder of anti-science propaganda and in Shell's case of violence against civilian populations.

Not exact matches

«The board has an obligation to prevent this violence from happening again and you can't say that you value women's rights at the same time that you say that these types of cases have to go into confidential arbitration,» Christensen said.

Nonetheless, a lawyer for two women injured in Charlottesville said that the leaked chats could form «the crux of the case» because they demonstrated a desire for violence.

This is the root of sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous human beings with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for male sexual desire, that our bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).

Illinois, for example, has had no cases of toddler shootings since January of last year, even though Chicago is infamous for its gun violence.

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Since Ghomeshi published his case, several women — including Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy DeCoutere — have come forward with public accusations of violence against the host.

Men are the aggressors in the majority of cases, but violence can break stereotypical gender norms also.

A flurry of domestic violence cases at the collegiate and professional level marred the integrity of the game off - field, as well as questionable handling of the cases by football executives.

The guidelines say that while videos of violence and even death should be marked as disturbing, in many cases they do not have to be deleted because they can «help create awareness of issues such as mental illness,» and because Facebook doesn't want to «censor or punish people in distress.»

From allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to the court case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi stemming from complaints of abusive behaviour both inside and outside the workplace, recent high - profile cases of harassment and violence have made it clear that many organizations struggle to uphold appropriate standards of conduct within their ranks.

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.

In the Michigan case you have an avowed member of a protest movement engaging in an unambiguous act of political violence.

Every day, in every region of our planet, we register new cases of systematic violence and persecution against Christians.

Slade, that's only the case if within your definition of «hope» you include some pretty horrid violence, which the Christian book of nasty has plenty of.

«The Secretary - General is also concerned about allegations that UNMISS did not respond appropriately to prevent this and other grave cases of sexual violence committed in Juba.

Muchembled explains both the development of dueling among the nobility and rural revolts against the centralization of authority as reactions against state repression of traditional codes of violence: «In each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.»

«Conflicts and natural disasters put these women and their babies at risk because of the sudden loss of medical support, compounded in many cases by trauma, malnutrition or disease, and exposure to violence.»

Manly violence went from being tolerated to discouraged in Western Europe (the United States is another case entirely) through the building of a disciplinary state by those whose interests the violence threatened.

In the case of Christianity, the violence started the other way around, against the Christians

In 2009, 8548 cases of domestic violence were reported in the four provinces of Pakistan.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

But this is a hard case for me, because in the context of Uganda (as in other countries where Lively et al. are active) there is a nexus between political advocacy and systematic violence that does not exist in, say, Baltimore.

In this case, on page 13 of Jonathan Riley - Smith's The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam, in a discussion of Augustine, just war, and medieval thought, we read: «The second was the conviction that violence was ethically neutral.»

In his case it was simply a question of violence.

The commission recommended that the United States «integrate concern for religious freedom into bilateral contacts with India... and encourage the strengthening of the capacity of state and central police to implement effective measures to prohibit and punish cases of religious violence.»

Indeed the champions of violence present their case humanistically, so to speak.

The Babri - mosque affair, the Gujarat riots, and the murders in Orissa are but three well - documented cases of Hindu - nationalist violence directed against Muslims and Christians.

Second, since in such cases Christians merely add their voices to a chorus that is already fully staffed, since they bring to it nothing new (that is, nothing Christian) and simply string along on the path cut by others (chiefly, the path of violence)-- can it then be said that their participation has any value?