Sentences with phrase «grave violations of human rights»

What is clear is that the UNSC is endowed with great powers which can and should be used consistently to address grave violations of human rights, where the evidence is clear and compelling.

Last friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying «grave violations of human rights» continued to increase in 2017 while...

Last friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying «grave violations of human rights» continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were never prosecuted by the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The problem is so severe in Canada that the committee found the situation to be a grave violation of human rights.

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Leading around 150,000 people in prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow - capped mountains of Araucania were both blessed by God and cursed by man, having been the site of «grave human rights violations» during General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 - 1990 dictatorship.

The protesters would also accuse Mr. Buhari government of committing grave human rights violations across the country, and for not prosecuting those who perpetrated them.

The protests would be coming days after the United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The security forces in the DRC are notorious for their record of grave human rights violations, especially sexual violence during conflicts between logging companies and forest communities.

Ten years ago the Canadian government launched a public inquiry to look into whether the actions of Canadian officials had contributed to the torture and other grave human rights violations that a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, had experienced while he was illegally imprisoned in Syria for a year in 2002 and 2003.

Garzon v. Spain, ECtHR: Produced an expert opinion with James Crawford SC on permissibility under international law of application of limitation periods in respect of grave violations of international human rights law.

Similarly, Indigenous peoples in developing countries have suffered grave human rights violations (including expulsion of traditional territories, forced relocation and the use of force to deny them access to resources needed for subsistence) under conservation schemes which purport to protect the forests, wildlife, or wilderness but not the people who have co-existed with them for centuries.

This shell game of numbers and statistics is meant to blame the victim and deflect attention away from Canada's continued inaction to address this crisis which the United Nations has called a «grave violation» of our basic human rights.