Sentences with phrase «rights abuses»

While this is seen as an attempt to prevent human rights abuses, cobalt has never been added to the list.

Well no, not many of us have, but when, hopefully, the time comes for you to invest your hard earned savings we are sure you would like to invest with an ethical organisation, rather than unwittingly funding the usual suspects such as the Arms Trade, Tobacco Industry or Human Rights Abuses.

It is much the same argument that not buying clothes made from sweatshops just means that people will be out of jobs, not that sweatshops — or rather, poverty and human rights abuses — will go away.

I first learned of efforts to use satellites to monitor human rights abuses while trudging through a ground blizzard in sub-zero darkness behind Harry Bader, a remarkable character who, at that time (December, 2003), was studying the warming of North Slope tundra.

It's problematic for the Kimberley Process because the human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's diamond mines are, like the country's other political problems, quite blatant.

«The Focus Is On Zimbabwe, But It's A Global Issue Rapaport was referring to the KP certification of more than $ 200 million worth of diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields, which are notorious for human rights abuses, including state police and private security guards «shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs» on local miners.

Whilst referencing the long art - historical tradition of depicting the Stations, «Repetition is Truth» also offers a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses.

The work is part of a long history of artworks depicting the Stations of the Cross and offers a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses.

Displayed in an aerial view, the newspaper's scrupulously hand - drawn international section is open to a full - page banking ad, one for a home furnishings sale and smaller stories about Chinese human rights abuses and the legacy of French colonialism; the open paint can, its circular lid and the angled stick between them create a double - image of a percentage sign — %.

The judging jury particularly praised the research agency for its ability to develop «highly innovative methods for sourcing and visualising evidence relating to human rights abuses around the world, used in courts of law as well as exhibitions of art and architecture,» explains Tate.

The series is based on the Stations of the Cross, but is also a broader commentary on the universality of human rights abuses and people's capacity for cruelty towards each other.

These pioneering photographs publicly exposed the violent consequences of human rights abuses at the turn of the century, and are exhibited alongside newly commissioned work from acclaimed contemporary Congolese artist Sammy Baloji who continues to investigate the colonial legacies and fractured histories that haunt contemporary Congolese society.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

She explains that fast fashion is an incredibly lucrative industry with companies typically outsourcing production to factories in countries that have lenient labor laws, leading to exploitation of workers and human rights abuses.

Many urgent, big «P» political topics are in there, including surveillance, human rights abuses and state accountability (Forensic Architecture); post-colonialism, migration and histories of the Left (Mohaiemen); social injustice (Thompson) and identity (Prodger).

The list is more overtly political than in previous years, featuring artists tackling issues of post-colonialism and migration, queer identity, human rights abuses and racial violence.

Alongside the dinosaurs, creatures whose extinction is their most notorious characteristic, figures like Step Off — whose seemingly decorative bands at the neck, knee, and ankle take on the suggestion of shackles — can be understood both as contemporary and as incarnations of centuries of human rights abuses.

That week, Mr. Simchowitz appeared on the Approval Matrix, at the upper corner of Highbrow and Despicable, right above an item about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.

Finally, Kill Screen's Will Partin did much more than simply review Prison Architect, instead tackling its large - scale failure to either model or critique the U.S. prison system and its human rights abuses.

Pusher, a tabletop game created as a political art protest against the human rights abuses in the Philippines, uses a childlike aesthetic and fun gameplay to highlight the grotesque horror of the murders of anybody branded as a «pusher» or drug dealer by a repressive government.

The chapter hosted Lewis Bollard, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) policy advisor, who spoke on Ag - Gag laws, and Liz Hallinan, Compassion Over Killing director of policy, who talked about animal and human rights abuses in factory farming.

Maathai has not only worked within Kenya's government in official capacities, but has also persisted as a vocal critic of its corruption, and its environmental and human rights abuses.

It appears that publishers have allotted Africa the slot for supplying the West with savage entertainment (stories about ethnic cleansing, child soldiers, human trafficking, dictatorships, rights abuses and so on).

Ken Saro - Wiwa was a gifted novelist who created a force unique to Nigeria: a mass nonviolent movement among his ethnic group, the Ogoni, to fight the environmental and human rights abuses caused by the alliance between the oil industry and Nigeria's corrupt autocracy.

Sarah Symons is the Founder and Executive Director of Made By Survivors — an international nonprofit organization employing and educating survivors of slavery and other human rights abuses, through the artisanship of jewelry design and metalsmithing.

Then again, if you want to join one of the most exclusive clubs without the typical human rights abuses or the political infamy that often accompany a Landaulet's owner, this may be your ticket.

Among their many motives to seek asylum in other countries are appalling human rights abuses, perpetrated through state - sponsored violence.7 At global level, the Rwandan refugee population is virtually estimated at 300 000.8

The first movement of Rwandan refugees arrived in South Africa in December 1996 after escaping forced massive repatriation, perpetrated by Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon without regard of said refugees» fears of a personal, real and foreseeable risk of persecution or torture and of probable human rights abuses back home.

This move was criticised by a number of human rights organisations due to the fact that there is an oppressive regime in Rwanda with a high record of human rights abuses.

Many of those she helps recount stories of abduction, forced labour, beatings, murder, rape and other human rights abuses.

Our mission is to assist spontaneous collective political and social action leading to the improvement of people's life quality and the end of injustice and human rights abuses.

But ongoing human rights abuses in ethnic areas, such as forced labour, rape, displacement, and portering in Kayah, Karen, Shan, Kachin, and Rakhine states, continue unabated as the army's presence in those areas continues to disrupt the lives of local people (dm IRIN 2013).

Human rights abuses against ethnic civilians, such as forced labour, rape, pillage, land grabbing, and exploitation were first reported in ethnic areas the 1970s and 1980s, after which more than 150,000 people8 had fled to Thailand to seek refuge in camps by 20109.

Recognize that the transition to renewable energy does not justify or require a massive increase in mega hydro dams, biofuels and major monoculture biomass plantations that cause displacement, food insecurity, human rights abuses and deforestation;

Internally Displaced Persons IIDPs) in Mogadishu face risks to their lives, safety, security and dignity and are at disproportionate risk of gross human rights abuses especially women and unaccompanied children.

The displaced Somalis who fled to Mogadishu have been subjected to a range of serious human rights abuses, including rape, beatings, ethnic discrimination, and restrictions on access to food and shelter and freedom of movement.

«In My Country,» directed by John Boorman, dramatizes the actions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was formed by President Nelson Mandela to offer amnesty to those who had committed human rights abuses under apartheid, provided they told the whole truth and could prove they followed orders.

December 9, 2013 • On Monday, federal prosecutors announced indictments against 18 current and former deputies of the L.A. Sheriff's department for corruption and civil rights abuses inside the nation's largest municipal jail system.

That detail is emblematic of the problem with «E-Team,» a documentary that purports to chronicle the sober and urgent work of those who ferret out human - rights abuses, but instead plays like a portrait of a rather glamorous marriage.

District 9 is an incredibly effective parable about human rights abuses against refugees, while also functioning as a thrilling science - fiction action film.

The palm oil industry in SE Asia is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the SE Asia, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

Juan S. Gallardo, past co-chair of the Committee on the Welfare of Scientists of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, has compiled a list of US Government agencies and Congressional committees that are concerned with human rights abuses.

The AAAS Science and Human Rights Program (SHRP) calls attention to human rights abuses involving scientists and scientific communities through the circulation of Action Alerts issued by professional associations on behalf of their colleagues or by human rights organizations.

«While we are concentrating on providing a domestic source for these elements, our work could also serve to mitigate environmental problems and human rights abuses associated with the mining of these elements around the globe.»

Despite the fact there are other groups that now use geospatial satellite imagery for human rights work, Wyndham says AAAS was a pioneer in exploiting satellite technologies to shed light on human rights abuses.

The internet is awash with potential evidence of human rights abuses in some of the world's most pressing conflicts.

In essence, these hold that states must protect people against human rights abuses, including environmental abuse, while companies must respect those rights and show due diligence when trading with others, and that those who are harmed must have proper redress.

Methods of citizen science are being opened up to projects in social science to study discrimination and human - rights abuses and to support local peoples in better representing themselves to outsiders.

Approximately 600,000 people are detained in compulsory drug detention centres without due process in East and South East Asia each year, despite reported human rights abuses and lack of evidence that they effectively treat addiction.

Ball spent 12 years in designing software that turns information on human rights abuses into databases that can be used worldwide.