Sentences with phrase «of ethnic violence»

And the practical element of removing perennial instigators of ethnic violence from Kenyan politics should not be discounted either.

About 1,200 people were killed in a campaign of ethnic violence that followed.

[Campaign material produced by Harris Media for the President's campaign channels Kenya's recent history of ethnic violence to accentuate fears over the possible election of his rival.]

Not exact matches

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

Afghanistan has its own cultural rifts - between ethnic Pashtun and Tajik, for example - but it's rare to see such an explosion of religiously motivated violence.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

Those effected in the northern region of the young country live in an area that has suffered through three years of on - going ethnic violence, with fighting between rebel forces and the government claiming the lives of thousands.

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them since the recent violence which has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

At least six people have died in violence linked to the latest vote, including a man who was shot and killed in the Nairobi slum of Kawangware as security forces moved to quell fighting between gangs from different ethnic groups late on Friday, according to police.

He added: «He himself wanted to introduce the work of the meeting, thanking the participants gathered to pray and reflect together on what to do to meet the dramatic situation of Christians living in the Middle East and other religious and ethnic minorities who are suffering because of the violence raging throughout the region.»

According to the UN, roughly half of the Rohingya population have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks and the violence has resulted in the displacement of 30,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists as well as Hindus.

And yet the text also includes disturbing details: a young virgin drafted into a harem with hundreds of other women to be used at the perverse discretion of a powerful and impulsive king, a queen deposed for refusing to flaunt her body before a room of drunken men, ethnic tensions and violence, a genocidal plot, an impaling, and an ending that depicts with some detachment the violent revenge of the Jews.

The last group is that of the ethnic - power politicizers, who claim not only that their group is beautiful, but also that the preservation, maintenance, enhancement and survival of their group depend upon the achievement of political power, whether it be through benign quotas, proportional representation, community control, caucuses — or in a few cases, outright secession, rebellion or the use of violence.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

Most obviously, the politically instigated ethnic clashes of 1992, 1997 and 2007 created perception in some communities that elections and violence go hand in hand.

Sources for each of these figures are, respectively: Human Rights Watch, «Divide and Rule: State - Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya» (1993), p. 1.

The proximity of these two electoral blocks is, nonetheless, likely to embitter the electoral campaign as candidates reinforce ethnic loyalties through hate speech and the possible organisation of violence.

It now seems likely that the verdicts on the six won't be announced until next year — until which time Uhuru Kenyatta, one of those accused of inciting ethnic violence, remains in the post of Deputy Prime Minister.

There is a common sentiment in Cameroon that if the Beti «ethnic» group (Biya's Bulu «ethnic» group is a subgroup of the Beti) were to cede political power, violence would ensue.

Given the previous willingness of Kenyatta and his allies to use violence to manipulate voters» insecurities, it may be that Kenyatta wins the election by destabilising the voting period and depicting his coalition as the more national, rather than ethnic, option.

Thus it fails to point out the existence in the Holocaust of religious intolerance and violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, as the UN resolution does in third item above.

Given the closeness of the contest and the high stakes involved for participants, there is a possibility that the practice of ethnic hate speech, the rigging of ballot boxes and the organisation of intimidating practices results in large - scale violence, as witnessed in the previous election.

Condemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

«Therefore, we are going to reinforce and reinvigorate the fight not only against elements of Boko Haram which are attempting a new series of attacks on soft targets, kidnappings, farmers versus herdsmen clashes, in addition to ethnic violence fuelled by political mischief makers.

Oral Questions - Action to encourage women and girls to take part in sport and improve the profile of women's sport in the media - Baroness Massey of Darwen; Addressing the under - representation of women, especially black and ethnic minority women, on FTSE 100 boards - Baroness Howells of St Davids; Ensuring the action plan for ending violence against women and girls is delivered consistently in schools - Baroness Prosser

When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

No ethnic group has monopoly of violence and no ethnic group should be a monster to others.»

Deliberate heritage destruction, which attempts to remove all traces of the past, is often used as a tool of ethnic and sectarian violence.

This article is part of this week's Science special issue on human conflict, which traces the trajectory of violence and war throughout history, exploring racism, ethnic conflicts, the rise of terrorism, and the possible future of armed conflicts.

The authors provide a comprehensive review of all forty identified scientific studies of the effects of psychological therapies for survivors of torture and trauma (e.g., refugees from ethnic violence).

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

His recent work quantitatively analyzes the origins and impacts of market crashes, social unrest, ethnic violence, military conflict and pandemics, the structure and dynamics of social networks, as well as the bases of creativity, panic, evolution and altruism.

It offers an atmosphere free of racial violence in ethnic black singles to find.

FLUSHED AWAY — ** 1/2 — Animated comedy starring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and others; rated PG (violence, vulgarity, ethnic slurs).

With representative voices for each period, from those who covered it to those who survived it, Belzberg illustrates how the early efforts of linguist - turned - activist Raphael Lemkin resonate through the modern attempts to curtail ethnic violence and establish a global framework for prosecuting its most egregious offenders.

(In English, Mandarin and Japanese with subtitles) In the Land of Blood and Honey (R for sexuality, nudity, violence, rape, ethnic cleansing and profanity) Angelina Jolie directed this romance drama set during the War in Bosnia and revolving around a Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) who reencounters a Muslim ex-girlfriend (Zana Marjanovic) now being held captive in a POW camp.

Lee Daniels» The Butler (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, smoking, profanity, ethnic slurs, mature themes and disturbing images) Forest Whitaker stars in the title role of this father - son saga, set against the backdrop of the African - American struggle for Civil Rights, recounting the real - life story of a butler who served in the White House under eight presidents.

This swell of nationalism swiftly spilled over into violence against local ethnic minorities, and director Abe Forsythe has made a very funny speculative fiction about the day after the carve - up.

Honeydripper (PG - 13 for ethnic slurs, brief violence and suggestive material) Danny Glover stars in this historical drama, set in rural Alabama in the Fifties, as the owner of a nightclub struggling to keep his place afloat by catering to the changing musical tastes of his clientele.

Excellent (4 stars) Rated R for sexuality, drug use, pervasive profanity, ethnic slurs and graphic violence Running time: 111 minutes Studio: Plan B Entertainment Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment Blu - ray Extras: Audio commentary with writer / director Barry Jenkins; Ensemble of Emotion: The Making of Moonlight; Poetry through Collaboration: The Music of Moonlight; and Cruel Beauty: Filming in Miami.

Hacksaw Ridge (R for graphic violence, gruesome images and ethnic slurs) World War II docudrama recounting the battlefield heroics of Army Medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who saved 75 fellow G.I.'s lives during the fight for Okinawa.

You'll have to go back to GoodFellas to find a Marty movie this fun, this enamored of language, of ethnic slurs, of «Gim me Shelter,» of explosive violence.

Bond: Marai Larasi, (right) arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson (left) and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls

Marai Larasi, arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls.

This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition - rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo.

Linked with a long history of religious and ethnic intolerance, racial and social inequality, and severe national tensions, diversity has undoubtedly bred hatred, prejudice, discrimination, and violence in some people over the course of history, says Senior Lecturer Todd Pittinsky in his new book, Us Plus Them.

This century has brought barbaric episodes of large - scale violence and trauma: the Holocaust, the Cambodian killing fields, the unprecedented state - terror generated by the Latin American counterinsurgency campaigns, the organized ethnic cleansings and sexual assaults in the former Yugoslavia, and the carefully orchestrated interethnic bloodbaths in Rwanda and Burundi.

The Center on the Developing Child is particularly concerned about the needs of children who face the cumulative burdens of poverty, maltreatment, violence, racial and ethnic discrimination, and family mental illness.

We are particularly concerned about the needs of children who face the cumulative burdens of poverty, maltreatment, violence, racial and ethnic discrimination, and family mental illness.