Sentences with phrase «crime against the nation»

It will not do so — and this is its crime against the nation.

They reasoned that the property even of citizens who had committed the highest crimes against the nation should not be wholly confiscated.

«Unspeakable crimes against our nation in monstrous corruption and the abuse of people's mandate in reckless abandon... very reckless», she added.

Not exact matches

Crimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on TuCrimes verging on genocide were being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, and those crimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tucrimes bore «the fingerprints of the Myanmar government and of the international community», the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide said on Tuesday.

This summer, when some 120 nations voted to establish a permanent international criminal court for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. found itself one of only seven countries, including such bedfellows as China and the Sudan, to vote against the new court.

Do you really think any social program the governemnt could possibly administer will matter to you when you are surrounded by religous Zealots hell bent on punishing our «Evil» nation for its Crusades and crimes against Allah and are blowing themselves up at a mall, hospital, or airplane near you in exchange for a bevy of beautiful virgins?

He explained to them why he was in Rome and indicated those in Jerusalem responsible for his predicament, all the while avowing his innocence of any crime against the Jewish nation.

«At that time this was against the resistance of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

«We are living in a time where our nation is divided and crimes against first responders and police officers continue to be pervasive,» said Sen. Fred Akshar.

In 2014, a United Nations Commission of Inquiry on North Korea's human rights conditions found that the North Korean government's «act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation» amounted to crimes against humanity.

In addition, the example of defectors from North Korea fleeing the atrocious crimes against humanity committed in the nation, as they search for a more prosperous life south of the 38th Parallel, or further afield, reinforces the clarion call to decouple areas from «hegemonic territorial divisions» (Phillips, in Powell et al., 2016:9).

Meanwhile, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu has called on Nigerian workers to join in the fight against corruption as they are the greatest victims of the mismanagement of the nation's wealth.

Calling on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the heinous crime being committed by the military against Nigerians in the Southeast, Governor Fayose said there was no law in Nigeria empowering the military to declare any organization as terrorists and to kill unarmed people.

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

[Anyone] who, in public and against the facts, ascribes to the Polish Nation or to the Polish State, responsibility or co-responsibility for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich, [as] defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, signed in London on August 8, 1945 -LSB-...], or for other offences which are crimes against peace [or] humanity or [that are] war crimes, or who otherwise grossly reduces the responsibility of the actual perpetrators of said crimes, is subject to a fine or [to] imprisonment for up to 3 years.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in October 2003 and requested that the Secretary - General designate the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as the Secretariat for the Convention's Conference of States Parties.

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.

UNITED AGAINST HATE: LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND RIVERDALE JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS RALLY AGAINST RECENT WAVE OF ANTI-SEMITISM Senator Klein highlights the IDC's Religious Freedom Package aimed at combatting hate crimes Bronx, NY — As anti-Semitic hate crimes sweep the nation -LSB-...]

A UN Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity can be established by the United Nations General Assembly resolution on Burma, which is passed every year.

Members also met with Rob Wainwright, executive director of Europol, the organization that assists 28 European Union nation in the battle against international crime and terrorism.

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

Today we learn that Milosevic has been indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for being personally responsible for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules oCrimes Tribunal for being personally responsible for crimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules ocrimes against humanity, including murder, deportation, and violation of the rules of war.

In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true - life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel «The Wettest County In The World», the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.

He is on his way to the United Nations to make a speech, while the Security Council is discussing whether to bring charges of crimes against humanity upon him.

Just recently, late November 2013, we have witnessed a presidential fraud in Honduras, which comes to legitimize a previous coup d'etat, and all the human rights violations and violence being suffered by the peoples of Honduras, in particular against the first nations and Garifuna peoples, and in favor of the rule of organized crime in the region.

Less than a week after Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, this heinous attack is a crime against the future of all children and the nation of Pakistan.

While this law is mostly ignored, antiquated laws can nurture antiquated values, creating hatred towards and even crimes against LGBQT people on mainland Belize (this problem remains in several other Caribbean nations as well).

Mr. Jean Ziegler, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, repeatedly denounced biofuels as «a crime against humanity.»

If the Abbott Government does even less they will be committing one of the greatest crimes against the planet that any nation has ever been guilty of.

On 24th April 2006, Dutch timber baron Gus Kouwenhoven will go on trial in The Hague on charges of committing war crimes against Liberians and violating a United Nations (UN) arms embargo.

The proposal for the United Nations to accept «ecocide» as a fifth «crime against peace», which could be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC), is the brainchild of British lawyer - turned - campaigner Polly Higgins.

Article 1 (F) provides that the Convention does not apply if there are serious reasons for considering that a person has committed a crime against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity (1F (a)-RRB-, a serious nonpolitical crime (1F (b)-RRB- or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations (1F -LRB-(c)-RRB-.

Genocide or getting rid of a culture or nation in its entirety, crimes against humanity, and war crimes are some offenses that are governed by it.

This can include nations claiming jurisdiction over crimes in nearby bodies of water and to specific categories of crimes (such as sexual offenses against underage victims) committed by or against citizens while abroad.

Although details of the specific allegations will not be released until later in their statement of claim, the notice of action indicates that our nation's armed force may soon be held to account for not preventing crimes, such as sexual assault and harassment, against its military members by their own comrades.

The United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the UK and over 100 other countries, condemns torture as an international crime of the utmost gravity, but it also requires each state to ensure that its legal system provides every victim with «an enforceable right to fair and adequate compensation».

The new «Holocaust Law» allows Poland to litigate against: «Whoever claims, publicly and contrary to the facts, that the Polish Nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich...».

Unlike the ICJ — the principal judicial organ of the United Nations — which hears cases brought by individual States, the ICC tries individuals charged with grave crimes under the Rome Statute, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

In 1933, Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin made a presentation to the Legal Council of the League of Nations conference on international criminal law, for which he prepared an essay on the Crime of Barbarity, positioned as a crime against internationalCrime of Barbarity, positioned as a crime against internationalcrime against international law.

1Article 2, International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention 1930; Article 1, Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 2Article 3, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000)

Many suddenly feel empowered to discriminate against others based on race, creed, sexual orientation, or gender identity, as evidenced by the rising number of hate crimes committed in the nation.