Sentences with phrase «forces against slavery»

Not exact matches

From life imprisonment for human traffickers to forcing pimps to pay compensation to their victims, Britain now has some of the world's toughest sanctions against modern slavery.

In the years leading up to the schism, southern Baptists desired to make slavery a non-issue, while abolitionist forces in the North (and among northern Baptists) desired the convention to take a moral stand against it.

Incidents of people being forced to work against their will under the threat of punishment, human trafficking, child slavery, and forced or early marriage are all considered forms of modern slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery International.

We read of Indonesian school girls targeted and beheaded simply because they were Christians; of Nigerian Christian men forced to chose between conversion to Islam or death, and of their wives and children forced to chose between conversion or perpetual slavery; of Pakistani Christians being burned alive in their homes; of Coptic Christians in Egypt and Chaldean Catholics in Iraq being fire - bombed, maimed and killed» and when not killed, hounded into exile; of «religious apartheid» and executions in Iran; and of unspeakable atrocities against Christians in the Sudan, the «scene of suffering as abhorrent as anywhere on any continent.»

My following comment below, is certainly not saying it is o.k for those people who are forced into slavery or the s - e-x trade, and are being «controlled» and / or abused by someone illegally against their will.

The NFL is NOT slavery, but the exact same forces are at play when you recall that it was against the law to teach a slave to read because the owners couldn't have them getting too smart.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

The challenges confronting the present generation of Africans may be unique in their own rights, however, it can not be in doubt that a concerted effort of the kind that delivered victories over slavery, oppression, subjugation and colonialism is needed today in equal measure to defeat contemporary forces such as neo-colonialism, racism, exploitation, unfair trade and poverty which are militating against our progress.

1 In the context of this publication, the definition of «Sexual Violence» will borrow from UN reports that defines it as: Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a conflict.

'' will borrow from UN reports that defines it as: Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men or children with a direct or indirect (temporal, geographical or causal) link to a conflict.

Crimes against humanity, which can often be gendered — for example rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution and forced pregnancy — are not a component of treaty law, they are characterized as international customary law.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South WForce breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wforce into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

The class action is based on allegations by the former miners that «international law norms against forced labour, slavery and torture were violated during the construction of the mine,» according to the ruling.