Sentences with phrase «crime against a group»

Last week the FBI reported a 6 % increase in hate crimes against all groups, with a 67 % increase in hate crimes against just Muslim Americans.

The bill would make it a felony instead of a misdemeanor to commit a hate crime against a group of people.

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«Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.»

Tel Aviv - headquartered artificial intelligence startup Cortica has partnered with India's Best Group to help investigating agencies in their fight against crime and terrorism through mass surveillance solutions, Digital Trends reported.

Following the UN's report of ISIS» ghastly crimes against humanity, rogue vigilante hacker group Anonymous has released a video declaring a new campaign against the extremist outfit.

ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.»

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Consti > tutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

The group has released a statement which reads: «Trident is an illegal and immoral waste of money, a crime against humanity and God.

Hate crimes are defined as criminal acts committed against those who belong to certain social, religious, ethnic or other group.

(that is the same «mentality» that lead to violence against doctors and nurses, violence against funerals, priests crimes, bishops crimes, Jame Jones in Guiana, Wacko (wacko), violence against other groups..

(CNN)- Showcasing alleged hate crimes, physical threats and profiling, a diverse group of ethnic organizations has coalesced to bring attention to what they call discrimination against Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs and others in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

Publically inciting violence against a particula group of children has to be some sort of crime, can we please charge this guy?

Experts from groups such as the Family Online Safety Institute and the Crimes Against Children Research Center told the New York Times that predators don't typically pursue children after seeing their photos online.

Despite its innocuous title, the Statute Law represented an attempt by the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to clamp down on the activities of civil society groups that had supported his prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

And these campaigns were not just fought by religious groups — the campaign against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill in 2004 united Rowan Williams, the NSS and evangelicals like the Barnabas Fund in its opposition.

Small, but noisy neo-Nazi groups, the violent Skinhead subculture and a number of racist and xenophobic incidents and hate crimes led to formation of the black clad underground militias, known under the short term «Antifa», and a wide tolerance and support for their violent and oppressive behavior against the general public.

Mr. Dasuki, who was arraigned before Justice Sani Yusuf, alongside a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Group General Manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Kura, and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital, had on Monday filed for bail after pleading not guilty to the 19 - count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

In 2012, for example, 1.3 million violent crimes — including rape and physical assault — occurred against people with disabilities and that number has been steadily increasing since 2008, making people with disabilities one of the most harmed groups in the United States.

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian National Summit Group, Mr. Tony Uranta, says the propaganda tactics being employed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the fight against corruption could trigger massive and violent social unrest nationwide.

A civil society group, under the aegis of Independent Human Rights and Crime Monitoring Group, has warned the Nigerian Army against human rights abuses in tgroup, under the aegis of Independent Human Rights and Crime Monitoring Group, has warned the Nigerian Army against human rights abuses in tGroup, has warned the Nigerian Army against human rights abuses in the...

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

According to GAW, «it is unfortunate that rather than face the reality and point out the state actors that are exporting suffering across the world, AI is pursuing a sick obsession of defending killer groups like the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and even accused the military of being harsh in its operations against Boko Haram even when it admitted that the terror group was committing crimes against humanity».

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin has restated the Armed Forces commitment to protect Nigeria's borders against trans - border crimes and to checkmate the security challenges in the North East posed by remnants of the Boko Haram terrorist group.

A group, Kaduna Concerned Citizens has stated that it will commence the process of recalling the Senators from the State for their heinous crime against the...

It means looking out to guard against people who profit from dividing us; it means guarding against self - centered politicians whose utterances highlight our differences rather than what we have in common as a people; it means protecting our young people from militant and terror groups who through fake religious teachings may indoctrinate and recruit our youth to commit crimes.

Among the other groups calling for the law's adoption were New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Giffords Law Center, which was founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

Many people - including members of the media who perpetuate this stereotype against Fulanis are simply ignorant and as a trained journalist, I am scandalized when I see news headlines associating crime with an ethnic group.

The group in its statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online and signed by Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, Said that, «Budget padding in fact is corruption, as it is implicit in corruption offences such as abuse of office, attempt to embezzle, divert, and misappropriate public funds, conspiracy to act corruptly, and illicit enrichment, which are recognized under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party, and included in national legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act.»

Freedom of religion was the foundation of our nation, so it is atrocious that people are committing crimes against particular religious groups.

Helmut Brucher, who is a member of the German Conservation Association and the Euro - group Against Bird Crime, placed the birds in a temporary home in Germany while deciding where they could be set free.

Because samples are stored and compared against DNA collected at crime scenes, police may be more likely to pursue crimes committed by members of overrepresented groups.

Lantern - jawed Brolin stars as a heroic detective in post-war Los Angeles assigned by his superior (Nick Nolte) to assemble a group of incorruptible badasses to wage war against the crime empire of Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn as a sneering heavy with the coiled body language of the boxer he once was, and a heart of pure evil.

This, in turn, becomes a hostage situation as they're locked in a green room, and with the help of insider Amber (Imogen Poots), they try and protect themselves against a group of white supremacists, led by a man named Darcy (Patrick Stewart), who want to kill them to wipe away any witnesses to their crime.

Set to debut in 2016, the series will follow a group of street - savvy teenagers in the South Bronx during the 1970s as the cultures of hip - hop and punk collide with new forms of music against a backdrop of violence, crime and other political / social issues of the era.

Further, rape in genocide must be understood to be what Andrea Dworkin coined as «gynocide;» the destruction of women as women, as a group or as members of the group.86 MacKinnon urges that grounds like ethnicity and sex be joined so that crimes against humanity like suttee, FGM, honor killings and rape perpetrated in rape / death camps can be defined as what they really are: «destructive acts against women «in part» on ethnic grounds combined with sex.»

In her address, the Co-ordinator of the Belize Movement for Peace and Reconciliation, Cynthia Ellis - Topsey said that a group of capable people will join forces to fight against the crime problem.

Noah Charney is an art historian and writer, and the founder and president of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group devoted to issues of art crime.

The group just wrapped up a two - day symposium in Montreal at which more than 100 experts in international law explored ways to use legal tools, most of which are oriented toward doling out justice among those alive now, to avert what amount to crimes against the future.

A manifesto published by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group proposes detailed reforms in 16 areas of law, ranging from actions against the state, to crime, to mental health and welfare benefits.

The Serious Crime Bill tackles female genital mutilation, makes provision about involvement in organised crime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against chilCrime Bill tackles female genital mutilation, makes provision about involvement in organised crime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against chilcrime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against children.

(h) «The crime of apartheid» means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1 [crimes against humanity], committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;

A person who, in a disseminated statement or communication, threatens or expresses contempt for a national, ethnic or other such group of persons with allusion to race, colour, national or ethnic origin or religious belief shall, be sentenced for agitation against a national or ethnic group to imprisonment for at most two years or, if the crime is petty, to a fine.

At the Kostopoulos Law Group, we have successfully defended clients against a variety of criminal charges including assault, battery, marijuana possession, identity theft, shoplifting, sex crimes, theft, weapons possession, white collar crime, and more.

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a complaint on behalf of SNAP, a survivor support group, at the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging that senior Vatican officials — including the current Pope — have committed crimes against humanity on the basis that «Vatican officials tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world.»

The rational debate considers what measures are needed to track and, if necessary, take action when Canadians head overseas to join up with a group like Islamic State, thus almost inevitably becoming implicated in such international crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and nationally criminal acts of terrorism.

American Bar Association Center for Human Rights Working Group on Crimes Against Humanity (invited by Ambassador David J. Scheffer), member, 2016 - present

The defendant appealed against conviction for an offence of racially aggravated threatening behaviour, contrary to the Public Order Act 1986, s 4 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (CDA 1998), s 31 (1)(a), arguing that the phrase used was not capable of demonstrating hostility based on membership of a racial group.