Sentences with phrase «holding perpetrators»
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The firm is dedicated to holding perpetrators and the institutions which empower them accountable for their actions.
Sean Aughey is part of the legal panel of a new international inquiry tasked with strengthening the framework for the protection of children in conflict and holding perpetrators of abuses to account.
After my ears burst into cherry - red flames of anger, I was holding the perpetrators over the rubbish bin and stopped with a crazy thought — what if I wore earrings as brooches?
60th District State Senate Candidate Amber Small is hoping Tuesday night's rally in Niagara Square will be among the first steps to passing legislation aimed at holding perpetrators of child sex abuse accountable for their crimes.
«Regarding attacks on religious groups, the government failed to take steps to hold perpetrators accountable or protect the vulnerable.»
If we refuse to use moral language in our discussion, we lose our ability to hold the perpetrators of such acts responsible for their actions.
«Hate speeches and electoral violence have become more frequent in the past because there was no political will to hold the perpetrators accountable.
«As the next State Senator for the 58th District, Leslie will be a powerful ally in the fight to hold perpetrators of sexual abuse accountable, regardless of when the crime occurred.»
I urge the FCC to conduct a thorough investigation into these robocalls and hold the perpetrators responsible for their potentially illegal actions.»
We advocate for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.
The formal system can in theory hold perpetrators of violence to account, yet in practice sexual violence cases are rare due the preference of women for more accessible and culturally relevant customary law.
Yet, as we can see in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rape and sexual assault is used as a tool of war, rarely are international instruments invoked to prevent or stop the atrocities or hold the perpetrators accountable.
A call for the industry to avoid silence when witnessing harassment and hold perpetrators — no matter how big their book of business — accountable
The criminal justice system also doesn't hold perpetrators directly accountable to victims — but civil cases do.
We hold perpetrators and institutions accountable.
It is a timely reminder that if you or someone you know is, or has been, subject to behaviour of this type you have readily - accessible legal protections to hold the perpetrators to account, and help prevent similar future events.
WHO WE ARE: SurvJustice is a D.C. - based national not - for - profit organization that increases the prospect of justice for all survivors through effective legal assistance that enforces victim rights and holds both perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence accountable in campus, criminal and civil systems.
We advocate for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.
Despite the documented direct effects of physical abuse on the health of children, the recognition that early childhood trauma is a leading predictor of adult morbidity and early mortality, and the enormous indirect costs of funding the social and legal systems required to investigate abuse, protect children, hold perpetrators accountable and treat affected families, available public resources have not adequately addressed the problem.
But with no identifying information, the police struggled to hold perpetrators accountable.
This is emotional child abuse and we need to have a way to hold perpetrators accountable to the law.
Not exact matches
Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.
As a man who would be encountered with another man holding a knife to his wifes throat and him aiming and shooting the perpetrator dead - the violence was only a means to justice.
Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.
«And we will do all we can to see that the perpetrators are held accountable.»
The concept of victims holding power over perpetrators has been used by Catholic hierarchy as early as the 15th century.
Some of the people held him responsible for the murder of Uthman and demanded that he should prove his noncomplicity by punishing the perpetrators of the outrage.
Sources tell the outlet that this kid wasn't the perpetrator actually holding the knife during the attack, but he was present.
Recall that the Economic Community Of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice had in December 2012 ordered the government to hold oil companies and other perpetrators of the environmental damage accountable, ensure reparation for the collective harm done to the communities; restore within the shortest possible time the environment of the Niger Delta; and prevent the occurrence of damage to the environment.
Senate President Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, stated that perpetrators of violence during the supplementary election in Bayelsa State must be held accountable...
«Civil society groups have play a key role in holding government and parliaments accountable but without a strong civil society in Nigeria, the problem of high - level official corruption and other cases of violations of human rights would go unaddressed, and perpetrators would continue to enjoy impunity.»
As a result, alleged perpetrators of abuse are often not held accountable for their crimes.
Rest assured that reports of these cases will be investigated and the perpetrators held accountable.
«We believe any time that an individual comes up with the courage to go after their perpetrator that abused them in any way, including and especially sexually as a child, they should have the recourse and the legal ability to go after these perpetrators, these monsters,» Kennedy said, «hold them accountable, put them in jail.»
«This is about holding those abusers, those perpetrators of this despicable, despicable abuse accountable, giving them jail time and giving closure to these victims and allowing these victims to have some recourse at the end of the day,» Kennedy said.
Greenberg said he's also prepared to work with other abuse survivors to hold public events to «tell the residents (of the districts) that their senator voted for perpetrators over survivors and victims of sexual abuse.»
The perpetrators were not only left unpunished for their atrocities but they were considered heroes by many and to this day hold positions of power within the country.
The standoff, with the fugitive holding a hostage and Dredd giving him an ultimatum (life in cryogenic sleep without parole or death), results in Dredd firing an incendiary round into the perpetrator's mouth; the results are as unpleasant as one might imagine.
And the grand finale: They go to a Brooklyn courthouse and hold a mock trial of a perpetrator of the Rwanda genocide.
Holding «peace circles», discussion circles that seek to facilitate group conversation in order to determine how to meet the needs of both the victim and the perpetrator back into the classroom, and to give the perpetrator the opportunity to amend their wrongdoing, can work wonders in facilitating a positive learning environment for everyone,» Ms. Rustad mentions.
It added that «those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held accountable.»
The annual luncheon, held at the ASPCA Adoption Center, celebrated our NYPD Partnership and recognized those who have played critical roles in preventing, investigating and prosecuting cases of animal cruelty and neglect in 2017 — roles like that of Deputy Chief James Luongo, whose commitment to this partnership has elevated the issue of animal welfare for all members of the NYPD; Detective Walter Brant, who is an NYPD Community Affairs Officer and has consistently worked to engage the public with the ASPCA's message through community events like National Night Out; Police Officer Danielle Venuto, whose work and dedication to animal welfare has extended to the rescue and successful placement of dozens of dogs; or Detectives Matthew Edelman and Jonathan Kalman, who saw a Facebook ® video of animal cruelty and took immediate action that resulted in the arrest of a perpetrator and saved the life of a cat named Chester.
The opening moments of Become Human see Connor enter an ongoing hostage situation, where a young girl is being held at gunpoint as the perpetrator teeters upon the edge of a rooftop.
The perpetrator (s) would be held up as soundrels or heroes by the respective sides, a cause celebe.
The IRS targeting conservative groups, Clinton Foundation and national security scandals, FBI pseudo-investigations and whitewashing, bureaucrats imposing $ 1.9 trillion in economy - crushing regulations that ruin families and communities — with virtually no perpetrators ever held accountable.
And hold the ring of perpetrators to account
I'd much rather see conduct like Drew's criminalized so that the perpetrator is held responsible rather than shifting the blame to the Web site owners, and forcing all of the rest of us users to bear the cost for their misconduct.
How are you going to claim compensation for your loss and ensure that the perpetrators are held responsible for their actions?
Therefore, the Code is only engaged by an employer's (or supervisor's) actions or inaction and it is the employer, rather than other perpetrators, who may be held liable.