Sentences with phrase «on child soldiers»

And according to Canadian Press on April 29, the U.S. military commission hearings on child soldiers that had been halted by U.S. President Obama in January have now been rescheduled to start June 1st.

Bacigalupi takes on child soldiers, global warming, the soul - numbing impact of violence, and even the current political discord in this disturbing and propulsive page - turner.

Not exact matches

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

This followed a truly remarkable evening on Friday during which Stephen Harper posted on Facebook that the government's settlement with Khadr was «simply wrong;» his son Ben Harper tweeted a donation to yet another Ezra Levant website collecting money for the children of the soldier whose death is at the heart of the Khadr affair; and Laureen Harper followed suit.

Dog tags are available on the Project: AK - 47 website, featuring the name, age, location and rank of a specific child soldier.

«In theory, under [the CSPA], the U.S. government is supposed to be able to block military aid that otherwise would have gone to the states on the basis of their child recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldchild recruitment,» explains Tim Molyneux, the Child Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldChild Rights Program Manager at Child Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldChild Soldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child sSoldiers International, an international advocacy group that works to end the use of child soldchild soldierssoldiers.

And since 2008, nearly all of the penalties meant to be levied on countries that use child soldiers have been waived.

Militaries that use child soldiers or [use children for] training or supportfor peacekeeping operations and so on and so forth... In many cases, we're not actually talking about arms sales, it may just be training and other stuff.»

When someone lives through severe trauma, like a soldier seeing his best friend torn to bits by a grenade or a child hiding in a closet witnessing ISIS behead his family, we expect that trauma to live on in a person's life.

He's allowed to be the vindictive God of the Hebrew's raining death on women and children alike, then all of a sudden he is turning the other cheek and healing the soldier ear.

Consider this one, which opens the prologue: In Warsaw in the fall of 1939, a pair of Nazi soldiers were harassing a Jewish child on the street.

And the same is true of the popular use of the word «sacrifice», as when a mother dies for her child or a soldier on the field of battle.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

When Israeli soldiers killed a woman and her six children on Lebanese territory, which they have occupied in violation of all UN resolutions, this is not called terrorism.

I pushed it back together and decided to soldier on with a Julia Child «Never apologize!»

After the bombs on the Paris Metro and a TGV line in 1995, there were no significant Islamist attacks until the fire - bombing of the Charlie Hebdo office in November 2011, and the killings of three French soldiers (all of North African origin) and three Jewish children (and one teacher) by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse four months later.

With images of child soldiers and mutilated bodies flashing on the screen, Jason says in voiceover, «I could» t explain to Gavin the truth of what Joseph Kony does.

First let's take a look at the definition of the word Realpolitik: Politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives Under that definition there are two possible reasons: Avoiding a situation where European soldiers / border guards shoot unarmed men, women and children Helping prevent further destabilization...

Ntaganda, who has been charged with war crimes for conscripting children under the age of 15 as child soldiers, is reliant on Rwanda for weapons, ammunition and young Rwandan recruits.

The movie is a drama based on the experiences of Agu (played by Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed West African country.

On Monday, about 300 ex-child soldiers including 70 women and 40 children had gathered at the four - storey building, which houses the ruling Maoist party.

No fewer than 144 ex-Maoist child soldiers have been arrested by Nepal police following protests at the headquarters of their former party on Tuesday, a spokesman for Kathmandu police office, disclosed.

Former General Officer Commanding 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Kamaldeen Role on Saturday commended late Brigadier General Solomon Giwa Amu, the former Aide De Camp (ADC) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for his impact in the education of children of soldiers in the barracks community.

«Hamas is a terrorist organisation and I utterly condemn their rocket attacks on Israel and the murder of Israeli soldiers, but that can not excuse the scale of the loss of life of innocent Palestinian civilians, including children, that we are seeing,» Miliband said.

They encourage unsuspecting youths, our youths to be their foot soldiers on the social media to abuse and curse people while their own children are sipping tea in England or America or elsewhere.

For contrast, consider the resonance phenomenon — like a child pushed on a swing or soldiers marching on a bridge.

The people on whom these experiments were run were soldiers, prisoners, those considered to be mentally defective (both children and adults), hospital patients with terminal illnesses, and pregnant women — if the women were poor.

Preference was given to soldiers with venereal disease, over soldiers with infected wounds and children with infectious diseases, because they were needed on the battlefield and had the best chance of recovery.

The Family Advocacy Program offers a breadth of valuable services to families, such as parenting classes, child care services, and classes focused on a soldier's reintegration into home life.

«Since the end of the data collection period in 2007, the Army has enacted myriad programs to meet these kinds of challenges head on, and we will continue working to ensure services and support are available to soldiers, families, and their children.»

«While incidents of child abuse and neglect among military families are well below that of the general population, this study is another indicator of the stress deployments place on soldiers, family members and caregivers,» said Karl F. Schneider, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.

With its focus on Central African youth in peril, interludes of dreamy stylization and non-native directorial perspective, «White Shadow» will routinely be compared to Kim Nguyen's recent, Oscar - nominated child - soldier study «War Witch» — which also, as it happens, featured a significant albino character.

Shocking and wrenching scenes abound — a Jewish worker is dropped to his knees as the Nazi commandant tries to shoot him in the head with a gun that repeatedly misfires, Jews are forced to strip and run around a compound in order to prove themselves healthy enough to live as workers, a soldier plays a piano in an apartment building as his comrades roam from room to room, randomly firing on men, women and children...

Soldiers chase a group of adults and children in a warehouse type dwelling, shooting them with a combination sleep - drug and tracking device (please see the Substance Use category for more details); the people fall to the floor, asleep, and we see a tiny ball bearing stuck on the skin at the neck or shoulder; one woman rolls down a staircase (she is unharmed and awake), and a little girl cries and runs off screen.

It pulls no punches whatsoever and provides remarkable, revealing interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese; from soldiers to politicians to civilians on both sides, and extremely disturbing footage showing the aftermath of the rash of American bombings within Vietnam, where innumerable innocent civilians were killed, including many children.

Paramount among studios trying to cash in on Chinese box office boom with film transplanting ancient clay soldiers to modern world, writes Ben Child

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As if getting out was trippy enough with soldiers murdering everyone in sight, a Psycho Mantis - like child floating through the halls, and a «Man on Fire» lumbering about; Snake soon finds himself being chased by a demon riding a unicorn.

As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point - blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents.

Raiden was once feared as the child soldier «Jack the Ripper» on the front lines of the First Liberian Civil War

Based on the highly acclaimed novel, director Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation brings to life the gripping tale of Agu (newcomer Abraham Attah), a child soldier torn from his family to fight in the civil war of an African country.

The Forbidden Room / Canada (Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk)-- A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

The Florida Project couldn't have started in a more euphoric key than Kool & the Gang's «Celebration», while the year's most misunderstood film, Ang Lee's bitingly satiric Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, deploys Destiny's Child's «Soldier» like a sensory attack on shell - shocked soldiers.

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Beasts of No Nation is based on the highly acclaimed novel by Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala, bringing to life the gripping tale of Agu, a child soldier torn from his family to fight in the civil war of an African country.

Child soldier turned hip - hop artist Emmanuel Jal talks about war in South Sudan and his tragic childhood on Russia Today when, out of the blue, the FOX Engine and MGSV appear.

Starring Idris Elba and newcomer Abraham Attah, the film is based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, centering on the young Agu (Attah), a child soldier tragically separated from his family and forced to join a band of rebels in the civil war of an African country led by Commandant (Elba) who takes in... Read

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldier all get more than they bargained for as the wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

The details: Based on the Uzodinma Iweala novel of the same name, Beasts Of No Nation follows a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced to be a child soldier in an unnamed African country under the watch of a brutal commandant (Idris Elba).

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