Sentences with phrase «of crimes against women»

The delegation, led by Nobel Laureates Wangari Maathai and Shirin Ebadi, called for a global end to impunity and a strengthening of laws that punish perpetrators of crimes against women.

«He had a history of crimes against women.»

Not exact matches

The bill makes some exceptions for fetal abnormalities «incompatible with life,» threats to the life of the pregnant woman, and survivors of rape and incest who report the crimes perpetrated against them within 45 and 140 days, respectively.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

= > The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is a United States law introduced into congress in 1999 which defines violent as sault committed against pregnant women as being a crime against two victims: the woman and the fetus she carries.

«Women's equality», «the freedom of sexual identity» and «reproductive choice» - the usual litany of the Church's crimes against the spirit of our age.

Mass slaughter follows; the rape, murder and dismemberment of one woman condones similar crimes against hundreds and hundreds of women.

@hebgb - i guess you are exactly right and America has NEVER had crimes committed against women, children, elderly, special needs nor have any «red blooded» americans ever blown up their own people... come out from the rock you live under and get some fresh air of reality.

«A gay boy killed himself and there was a investigation and a woman thrown in jail so where is the perpetrators of this crime or since it wasn't against gays thats ok»

ok well in the bible it is against divorce also but god forgives to but it is still wrong and yes i am from nc and i do live in catawba country where this took place but i do nt have to sit around and watch people make out with each other and u know lesbians and gays should read the bible more pentcosal think the same way about that it is wrong for a man and man to be togather and a woman and woman to be togather and some of you people are just plan stupid and i think that some of you just need to think it is god place to judge this pastor and it might be old fashion but back in the ol days we did nt have all this volice and all these crimes but look now there is alot of crime and volice and all we are doing is mad that a pastor said how he felt about gays and lesbiens

Just because being lynched is worse than being raped, doesn't mean that if one is vulnerable to both, one should do nothing to try to stop rape [Crimes Against Women: Proceedings of the International Tribunal, edited by Diana E. H. Russell and Nicole Van de Ven (Millbrae, California: Les Femmes, 1976), p. 89].

Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.

Baylor has been criticized for its acceptance of transfer Sam Ukwuachu, from Boise State, who was later convicted of raping a fellow Baylor athlete and Shawn Oakman, from Penn State, who would be reportedly investigated during his playing career at Baylor and arrested afterward for a separate incident, both for alleged crimes against women.

As a human rights activist, I assume you know the extent of the problem we are up against: that violence against women around the world is now both so routine and so extreme that the UN has called for «femicide» to be a recognised crime.

If such a person had committed crimes of violence against women and were imprisoned, they may have a legally protected right to be housed in a women's prison, solely on the basis of their self - declared gender identity.

In speech after speech, he lectures women on how many children to bear, calls abortion a crime against humanity, declares himself as the leader of all Muslims, and even made comments about certain TV shows, which he deemed incommensurable to traditional values.

A verdict could come tomorrow in the case against Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, two black women accused of fabricating a hate crime on a CDTA bus last year and assaulting white passengers.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

But in a letter this month to town and county elected officials in Nassau, Blessinger listed several cases nationwide in which Uber drivers were accused of crimes against passengers, including an alleged rape in March of a woman in Orange County, California.

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A Howard Beach newspaper publisher in debt to the mob attempted to threaten a woman out of pursuing sex assault claims against a Bonanno crime family associate, federal authorities said.

«The recent string of sexual assaults against women has shaken our community to its core and reminded us that we can't let up in our fight against crime, particularly when it comes to protecting women and families,» said State Sen. Adriano Espaillat.

Cuomo's ad uses images of medical examination rooms with distraught women, presumably victims of rape or incest who became pregnant as a result of the crimes against them.

I designed a bureau that increased the effectiveness of law enforcement to deal with crimes committed against women, children, and the elderly.

Today, as he did in arguing against the increase in officers last year, Mr. de Blasio pointed to the city's continually low crime rate: «I say, God bless the men and women of the NYPD for doing a great job.»

«Every kit holds the potential to solve a heinous crime,» says Linda Fairstein, one of the foremost experts on crimes against women and a vice chair at Joyful Heart.

The Winter Soldier Investigation ----- On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to discuss war crimes Former Territorial Army male soldier, 28, becomes Britain's first transgender Muslim woman and is now MARRIED.

Rodriguez committed his series of crimes over a two month period against a woman he was dating.

The documentary follows the lives of lawyers and activists that charged Mayor Akeyesu with crimes against humanity, and shows interviews with the women who were brave enough to speak out against...

Bride Wars is a crime against women, while Catch and Release, Susannah Grant's hyphenate debut, is a more Catholic breed of misanthropy.

It's the story of hardworking women trying to get by in this economy, set against the surreal, bright, gritty landscape of Florida and the luscious, absurd, extreme excesses of the crime world.

A did - he or didn't - he exploration of the legal system and our attitudes toward powerful men who commit crimes against women.

It's all held together well by Oplev, who must lead his actors through some very tough moments involving vicious crimes against women, while also keeping the storyline, adapted by screenwriters Arcel (King's Game) and Heisterberg (Midsummer), the main focus, without becoming confusing in terms of mystery.

Red Riding: 1980 follows more or less the same formula as the first installment: an illicit sexual relationship complicates an investigation of, and provides a disturbing commentary on, a series of grisly crimes against women.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

In Art. 5 (g) of the ICTY statute, rape is only established as a crime against humanity, not as a tool of genocide.76 Like other domestic and international forums, the ICTY is hindered by «legally institutionalized sex inequality,» 77 is easily manipulated by the historical denial of sexual and reproductive harm to women and is obligated to grant institutional deference to states.

Further, rape in genocide must be understood to be what Andrea Dworkin coined as «gynocide;» the destruction of women as women, as a group or as members of the group.86 MacKinnon urges that grounds like ethnicity and sex be joined so that crimes against humanity like suttee, FGM, honor killings and rape perpetrated in rape / death camps can be defined as what they really are: «destructive acts against women «in part» on ethnic grounds combined with sex.»

For example, 33 of 50 U.S. states regard spousal rape as a lesser crime with the perpetrator charged with related crimes such as assault, battery or spousal abuse.9 In some countries, women are even criminalized for the behavior perpetrated against them.

Beck then published gritty crime novels (the newly discovered Shetani's Sister is due soon), and as his books sold in the millions (and his publisher ripped him off), he spoke out against racism, violence, and the exploitation of women.

Linda Fairstein — lawyer, former prosecutor, and author of twenty - two books — is one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children.

The pair are friends with the best - selling crime writer Karin Slaughter (whose psychologically complex thrillers are driven by her outrage about the epidemic of violence against women) and with Emily Giffin, Atlanta's modern - day Jane Austen.

The crimes against women are rising with the passage of everyday.

Today women are not safe even in prestigious institutions of the world; we can hear in news such crime cases against them every other day.

In this video performance, intended to remind people of serious crimes committed against women, women become advocates of representative individual stories, presented here as noisy, combative protests.

Public and private property of the enemy — Protection of persons, and especially of women, of religion, the arts and sciences — Punishment of crimes against the inhabitants of hostile countries.

Ensure adequate oversight of officials responsible for responding to and investigating crimes of violence against women, and ensure that administrative, disciplinary or criminal measures are available to hold such officials accountable.

By contrast, a report to the Scottish Parliament in 2003, A Critical Examination of Responses to Prostitution in Four Countries: Victoria, Australia; Ireland; the Netherlands; and Sweden, found that countries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence against women.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

After conducting DNA testing on crime scene evidence, we uncovered a DNA profile that «hit» in the CODIS federal DNA database to a man with a long history of violence against women and children.

Masipa's decision also sparked anger outside the court, particularly among those campaigning for women's rights in a country with high levels of violent crime against women and children.