Sentences with phrase «victims of the war in»

For example, the United States has not signed or ratified the protocol and only after the war did the former Yugoslavian states separately sign on.75 The ICCPR can not be interpreted retrospectively, thus successfully denying victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia from reporting past atrocities.

Not exact matches

In The Antitrust Paradox, Bork wrote, «[T] he modern law of horizontal mergers makes it all but impossible for the predator to bring the war to an end by purchasing his victim.

In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorallIn Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorallin the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

It is like someone writing... the victims of Mai Lai should have done more to stop the war in Viet Nam.

Let's say we are in a room listening to the harrowing stories of war rape victims.

For the victim of war struggling to connect with a God who allows so much evil in the world, the bad news is that mankind's rebellion has turned the planet into battlefield; the good news is that God loves the world and has a plan to ultimately heal, restore, and redeem all of creation.

And yet there are Islamic charities working in many places in this world to care for victims of war and natural disasters, without regard to the victims religion or nationality and without needing to convert them.

War is a particular demonstration of the power of sin in the world and a defiance of the righteousness of God as revealed in Jesus Christ and him crucified» Yet the conference accepted the idea that criteria exist by which some wars can be regarded as just: to defend international law, or to vindicate «an essential Christian principle» such as the defense of «victims of wanton aggression.»

To see justice through and not abandon either the victims or the defeated enemy requires patient endurance in the face of the hardship and costs of war and its aftermath.

The charity's UK office has provided more than # 92,000 to help widows, victims of the war, young people who have lost their jobs, and families in particular need.

In raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violencIn raising our voice in defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violencin defence of persecuted Christians, we wish to express our compassion for the suffering experienced by the faithful of other religious traditions who have also become victims of civil war, chaos and terrorist violence.

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability..In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability..in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability..in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

Beings who will one day vanish from the earth in that ultimate subtraction of sensuality called death, we spend so much of our lives courting it: fomenting wars, watching with sickening horror movies in which maniacs slice and dice their victims, or hurrying to our own deaths in fast cars, cigarette smoking, or suicide.

Kawasaki was himself a victim of wartime prejudice and spent most of the war years in the relocation center at Camp McCoy in Wisconsin.

«Calling millions of Christian victims of bloody civil wars «martyrs» is a bit like calling all the victims of 9/11 «heroes,» he wrote for The Washington Post in 2013.

Grass had gained attention during the Nicaraguan civil war by arguing everywhere he could that the Sandinista commissars were victims of a demonic American imperialism equal to Russian Communist oppression in Poland.

Both procedures sculpted Operation Desert Storm, which was presented as (1) a desert campaign of World War II, Hollywood - style, complete with tanks in the sunset, and tearful homecoming, parades; and (2) the Nintendo War, a game without victims or purpose.

Many Americans, more motivated by fear of the unknown and self - preservation than compassion for war victims, ignore facts in favor of rhetoric.

Such an effort is found in the sending of aid in the spirit of Christ to the victims of communist tyranny and to other persons made hungry and shelterless by war.

«Nuclear war is rejected in Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.&raquin Church teaching because nuclear weapons can not ensure noncombatant immunity and their awesome destructive power and lingering radiation can not be meaningfully proportionate,» he said, citing Pope Benedict XVI's 2006 World Day of Peace message, in which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.&raquin which the pope said, «In a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.&raquIn a nuclear war, there would be no victors, only victims.»

In Greece - especially Athens - the victims of pederasty were not only prisoners of war, the abducted, or slaves.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Here was the inception of the largest exploitation in all history of one race by another — with the heartless barbarity of the tribal wars whose victims were sold to the European slavers, the incredible suffering of the trans - Atlantic passage, and the cruelties inflicted in the plantations of the New World.

And he notes that there is a contradiction between those metaphors that speak of God's forgiveness and care for Israel and victims and those that tell of divine participation in war and punishment.

How many human beings have become the victims of religious wars, how frequent the oppression of other religious consciences, how numerous are the martyrdoms suffered in courageous confession of individual faith!

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Furthermore, the Vatican's role in helping Nazi war criminals flee justice via their «Ratlines» is well docu.mented, as is their funnelling of Nazi gold stolen from their victims.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.

Her photographs range from victims of Bosnian genocide, warring Brazilian families, human exhibitions in America and the living dead in India.

They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

President George W. Bush did it in a memorable 2004 ad showing firefighters taking remains up the ramp out of ground zero, which created an uproar among some — but not all — victims» relatives (and was also a media distraction the campaign welcomed off of the economy and the wars).

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimeIn May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimein absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

They are often the silent victims who are left to battle with the consequences of conflict and war both in and outside of prison.

When RT (Russia Today), the global broadcaster funded by the Russian state, ran the headline «Concert Held in Ruins of Palmyra to Honour Victims of Syrian War,» it failed to mention that the Syrian government, Russia's ally, had slaughtered the majority of those vVictims of Syrian War,» it failed to mention that the Syrian government, Russia's ally, had slaughtered the majority of those victimsvictims.

Some victims of the Nigerian Civil War had in 2012, dragged the federal government before the regional court praying for an order for the removal of remnants of war instruments in 11 states of the South East, South South and parts of the North CentrWar had in 2012, dragged the federal government before the regional court praying for an order for the removal of remnants of war instruments in 11 states of the South East, South South and parts of the North Centrwar instruments in 11 states of the South East, South South and parts of the North Central.

Victims of poverty and war in Africa deserve the same «generosity and solidarity» from the British people as those who have suffered in the Asian tsunami, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.

Of the N88bn, the sum of N50bn is for the compensation of the victims, while N38bn is for the purpose of the destruction of the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneOf the N88bn, the sum of N50bn is for the compensation of the victims, while N38bn is for the purpose of the destruction of the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof N50bn is for the compensation of the victims, while N38bn is for the purpose of the destruction of the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof the victims, while N38bn is for the purpose of the destruction of the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof the destruction of the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof the landmines and rebuilding of public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof public buildings affected by the war, which took place between 1967 and 1970, mainly in the South - East geopolitical zone and some parts of the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zoneof the South - South and the North - Central geopolitical zones.

Other purposes the amount will serve include compensation of the victims, and the reconstruction of public buildings in some parts of the states affected by the war.

John Chilcot was accused of «betraying» victims of the Iraq war and putting the military covenant at risk today, as anger grew in Westminster at the delay to the publication of his report.

Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and veteran of the war in Iraq, said he would boycott a moment of silence on the House floor in honor of the Vegas victims, saying it «becomes an excuse for inaction.»

In February 2003, prior to the war in Iraq, he visited the USA to give a speaking tour opposing the impending war and laid a Union flag and wreath in commemoration of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks at Ground ZerIn February 2003, prior to the war in Iraq, he visited the USA to give a speaking tour opposing the impending war and laid a Union flag and wreath in commemoration of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks at Ground Zerin Iraq, he visited the USA to give a speaking tour opposing the impending war and laid a Union flag and wreath in commemoration of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks at Ground Zerin commemoration of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks at Ground Zero.

We will strive to ensure that no victim is left behind, including the 219 Chibok girls who have, since their abduction in April 2014, served as a global symbol of the war against Boko Haram and a reminder of the horrors that it has inflicted on innocent Nigerians.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $ 7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

«Even in Egypt, despite hearing many tales of war, we never find such substantial archaeological evidence of its participants and victims,» UCD's Molloy says.

In 1984, in the wake of Argentina's return to civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regimIn 1984, in the wake of Argentina's return to civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regimin the wake of Argentina's return to civilian rule, President Raul Alfonsín and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo - a nongovernmental human rights organization - requested technical assistance in exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regimin exhuming mass graves of victims of the country's «dirty war» and in applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regimin applying genetic screening techniques to determine grandpaternity of children born in detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regimin detention or abducted from their parents and adopted by supporters of the previous regime.

Their modus operandi — death by stretching — involves many worker ants pulling on the victim in a lethal tug - of - war, culminating in the arduous trek up a tree with quarry in tow.

Doctors believe he is one of a small but growing number of Vietnamese children who are third - generation victims of the toxic pesticides — in particular Agent Orange — that were sprayed over the country by the US Air Force at the height of the Vietnam War 30 years ago.