Not exact matches
Although further U.S. aid to El Salvador seems a foregone conclusion, some congress people hope to make it conditional on assurances
of open access to provide help to
civilian victims of the civil
war — a right recognized by international law.
In 1984, in the wake
of Argentina's return to
civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves
of victims of the country's «dirty
war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity
of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters
of the previous regime.
In a history
of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century
of violence: the two world
wars and hundreds
of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile
of those who suffer in
wars, which shifted from military to prevalent
civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 %
of civilians), beside to enormous level
of individual violence happen daily all over the world.
Both pieces deal with issues relating to
war, expressed primarily through the voices and perspectives
of civilians while focusing on both
war's
victims and its architects.
The potential number
of victims of global warming could far exceed the number
of civilian victims of World
Wars I and II.