Sentences with phrase «sanctioned violence against»

It shows a lack of understanding about the nature of systemic state sanctioned violence against black bodies.

One atheistic author has written an entire book about these many thousands of passages in the Bible in which God blesses, causes, commands, or sanctions violence against human beings (Steve Wells, Drunk with Blood: God's Killings in the Bible).

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In a recent discussion on «impunity» against the former corrupt political regime in Argentina, individual after individual present spoke out in shame against their silence in the face of oppression — each one felt that they had succumbed to the fear of repression, maybe of the possibility of «disappearance» — but now they recognized that their silence had sanctioned so much of the violence.

Obama: U.S., Germany united in sanctioning Russia for Ukraine crisis... As growing Ukrainian violence turned deadly Friday, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to seek harsher sanctions against Russia if Ukraine doesn't stabilize in time for elections this month.

The failure over the years to systematically and consistently enforce sanctions against individuals who flout established laws during elections has encouraged the impunity and violence that often characterize electoral contest in Nigeria, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu has said.

The attorneys at James M. Ventura vigorously defend their clients against a domestic violence charge and the sanctions that accompany this conviction.

Given that violence against adults, animals, and criminals to change their behavior is illegal, Gershoff questions why violence against children to change their behavior should be socially sanctioned, especially without clear and compelling evidence that it results in desirable outcomes.

Poverty, a lack of employment opportunities, a lack of institutional support from police and judicial system, the general tolerance of sexual violence within the community, and weak community sanctions against sexual violence perpetrators — all can come together to amplify individual and relationship risk factors.

Some definitions of physical abuse do not include perpetrator intent; others reflect motive rather than injury type.3 Additionally, definitions of physical abuse are culturally determined, and what is considered abusive in one society may not be in another.4, 5 In many societies, physical violence against children as a method of punishment is endorsed by parents, sanctioned by societal institutions (such as schools) and allowed by law.