Sentences with phrase «rape on democracy»

This is a rape on democracy.

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Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

We therefore call on the National Assembly to review the section of the constitution that empowers the state governments to conduct local government elections with a view to avoiding a rape of our democracy,» it said.

If we still subscribe to the importance of the golden thread — that proof beyond reasonable doubt in criminal justice is a core value of freedom and democracy — then of greater importance than myth - busting on victim typology is the continuing, but now statutorily discredited, need for warnings about the dangers of false rape allegations.