Sentences with phrase «from oppressive regimes»

In one group of works, she unflinchingly probes the torments resulting from oppressive regimes in Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and South Africa.

The desire to leave somewhere else is insufficient in as much as a myriad of other nations will take refugees from oppressive regimes the world over.

León Ferrari illustrates the global nature of the exhibition with his La Jaula (The Cage)(1979), which he created while in exile from an oppressive regime in his native Argentina.

Do I set up a file on this «potential terrorist» who fled from an oppressive regime?

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Initially, RCDA had support from some of the oldline churches, but that dried up when leaders decided that embarrassing news about Communist behavior got in the way of a «peace and justice» agenda that required cordial relations with the oppressive regimes of the East.

Britain is set to reintroduce «internal exile», a hallmark of the world's most oppressive regimes, in the wake of the increased security threat from terrorism — despite parliamentarians» deep discomfort about the move.

Many of the interpreters (numbering over 40) who provide this specialised interpreting service have fled the same conflicts and oppressive regimes as Freedom from Torture clients, and some of them are torture survivors themselves.

Their findings from missions like this, disseminated in the news media and at conferences, illuminate oppressive regimes and can influence national policies.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Persepolis (PG - 13 for sexual references, profanity, mature themes, violent images and brief drug use) Feminist animated adventure, set at the dawn of the Iranian revolution in the late seventies, chronicles the resistance to the oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime displayed by a defiant young girl (Chiara Mastroianni) followed from the age of 9 to 24.

Set in a world where an oppressive government regime has outlawed clothing, it follows a group of martial artists fighting to bring down The Man before their improbable breasts cause their spines to give out and erupt from their bodies like the chestburster in Alien.

After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from the oppressive grasp of the Communist regime.

Liberating dance from the realm of solely elite, highly - skilled and trained athletes, the medium holds the potential to act as a form of subversion against oppressive regimes and capitalistic ideals — so it's not surprising that movement became a primary facet of artistic practice at the height of counterculture in the»60s.

This exhibition features a group of four videos, originally shot on Super 8 film, from the 1970s and early 1980s that use the body to express the experience of living under an oppressive regime.

This exhibition of work by São Paulo — based artist Anna Maria Maiolino features a group of four videos from the 1970s and early 1980s that use the body to express the experience of living under an oppressive regime.

Nilo Cruz's simple and effective play recounts the plight of two sisters who hope to obtain freedom from the oppressive Castro regime.

Two to three percent, as James Coan from the Baker Institute Energy Forum reminds us in a column for the trade publication FuelFix, is all the difference that Americans will see in their carbon footprint if they open up pipelines, like the pending Keystone XL, to the oil sands, instead of importing conflict oil from the oppressive and persecuting regimes of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.

Yet this pipeline would destroy Europe's climate targets, divert billions in funding away from renewable energy and increase fossil fuel reliance on Azerbaijan — an oppressive regime.

This pipeline would destroy Europe's climate targets, increase energy dependence on oppressive political regimes, divert billions in funding away from democratic renewable energy solutions and have unacceptable impacts on the communities in its path.

From 1996 to 1998, Odigha remained underground, until Abacha's death ended his oppressive regime.

While Facebook assures western powers, from Germany to the United States, that it will do everything it can to help them defend their democratic processes from malicious actors, it continues to aid, in one way or another, oppressive regimes across the world.

to the United States, that it will do everything it can to help them defend their democratic processes from malicious actors, it continues to aid, in one way or another, oppressive regimes across the world.