Sentences with phrase «international outrage by»

In April, it sparked international outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from their boarding school in Chibok, in Borno state, like Damboa.

The group has waged an eight - year war to create an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, and provoked international outrage by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls known as the Chibok Girls in April 2014.

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But international sportsmen as well as other Mariles partisans are outraged by the brutal manner in which the eviction was carried out.

Our report finds continued violations of The International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes, which was adopted by the World Health Assembly after outrage in the 1970s over aggressive formula marketing in developing countries.

The Chibok abduction sparked international outrage and became the most infamous act by the Islamist Boko Haram group which has killed 20,000 people and uprooted at least 2 million in a brutal eight - year campaign that shows no sign of ending.

The Global Amnesty Watch, an organization out to address the use of international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) by some big countries to undermine their territorial integrity, sovereignty and the national laws of the country said, it is rightly concerned that the plots to destabilize otherwise stable countries is gathering pace instead of slowing down in the face of global outrage over the damage being done.

While such a move would require a protracted legal process, complete with appeals and checks against international law, the letter sparked outrage at British plans to «storm» the embassy, prompting many observers to brand it an own goal by the Foreign Office.

Mr Corbyn sparked international outrage last week by comparing Israel to ISIS terrorists and failing to speak up while Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth was verbally abused.

Welcome to the 1st International Marriage Network — an Within weeks, legislators in Tennessee — humiliated by the outrage around the country — passed a bill that set the minimum age of marriage at 16.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.