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It is based on ethnicity and religion which gives rise to the violation of human rights in social, legal, cultural, and political spheres.

The Daily Mail says a spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, said: «The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis - à - vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.

These are positive advances in the background of large scale violations of human rights in periods of human history.

The film focuses on the stories of the individuals who testified before the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate violations of human rights in South Africa and beyond its borders between 1960 and 1994.

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On disappointment with Obama: «Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.»

«How do you feel about your involvement in a country that has been described as the North Korea of Africa with respect to human rights violations?»

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Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

Trump has also expressed admiration for Kim's leadership of North Korea, though human - rights groups have accused the government of numerous violations, including running prison camps that have been likened to Auschwitz in Nazi - controlled Europe.

New World Health Organization director - general Tedros Ghebreyesus announced in a recent speech that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe — who has faced allegations of human rights violations and «crimes against humanity» — would be a «goodwill ambassador» to the global health agency.

America imposed fresh sanctions on Russia in early August, building on previous penalties that focus on interference in the 2016 U.S. election, human rights violations, the annexation of Crimea and the alleged destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

His argument is basically that Canada's oil is ethically preferable to the oil produced in other places, considering especially places with serious histories of human rights violations.

CARACAS Rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez was killed in a police operation on Monday along with six other anti-government militants, the interior minister said on Tuesday, spurring opposition complaints of human rights violations.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

Her voice cracking with emotion, the mother of college student Otto Warmbier who died soon after being sent home from North Korea, says her family will keep speaking out about the country's human rights violations to «rub their noses» in what they did.

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.

«That Sudan continues to prosecute these men, and without even allowing them free access to their legal team, makes a mockery of the judicial process and is a clear violation of fair trial principles, as articulated in Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Sudan is a party.

the fact that most of the 911 hijackers were from there and despite the fact that they have the worst human rights violations in the world means nothing...

These considerations are made even more relevant because of present United States commitments to international treaties on human rights, which could conceivably, at some time, put United States positive laws relating to abortion and the judges who implement them at variance with and in violation of a future international consensus on that issue.»

Let us not underestimate the role of the international human rights project in training a spotlight on the appalling violations of human life, liberty, and dignity that occur every day in many parts of the world.

The meeting reflects a shift in US policy under President Trump as his predecessor, President Barack Obama, refused to invite Mr el - Sisi to the White House because of concerns about human rights violations.

The New York Times: Irish Poised to Revisit Abortion Law Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation of its own Constitution on the matter.

«The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights,» Congressman Smith told more than 600,000 people gathered in Washington DC for the 2014 March for Life.

Minnesota Department of Human Rights officials have stated that penalties for violation of Minnesota Statutes Chapter 363 include payment of a civil penalty to the state; triple compensatory damages; punitive damages of up to $ 25,000; a criminal penalty of up to $ 1,000; and even up to 90 days in jail.

In the words of the November 5, 1987 report released by the respected human rights organization Americas Watch, contra violations of the laws of war are «so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war.

In opposition to the blatant violation of human rights everywhere in the world, perhaps the faithful of all religious traditions will join together to do the will of God for the sake of all humanitIn opposition to the blatant violation of human rights everywhere in the world, perhaps the faithful of all religious traditions will join together to do the will of God for the sake of all humanitin the world, perhaps the faithful of all religious traditions will join together to do the will of God for the sake of all humanity.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

«We condemn Iran's continued violation of the universal right of freedom of religion and we call on the Iranian authorities to respect Mr. Abedini's human rights and release him,» U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay said in written statement.

«We need to continue exposing Iran's violations of Saeed's human rights until my husband is safely back in my arms,» the statement quoted her as saying.

In its pursuit of détente with what some realists judged to be an ascendant Soviet Union, the realism of the Nixon - Ford years downplayed, for instance, human - rights violations behind the Iron Curtain.

However, in the rural areas in the northeast and the north, there is a totally different world where people suffer from economic deprivation and environmental destruction - in other words, all kinds of human rights violations.

As Pope John XXIII wrote in his encyclical Pacem in Terris (1963), «Any government which refused to recognize human rights, or acted in violation of them, would not only fail in its duty; its decrees would be wholly lacking in binding force.»

But elsewhere it warmly endorses the teaching of John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae and explicitly names abortion and euthanasia as violations of human rights — although, admittedly, not in its own voice but in quoting another evangelical document.

On Christmas Eve 2009, Park, 29, crossed into North Korea in hopes of drawing attention to the Communist nation's human rights violations and persecution of Christians.

It's been reported that he was arrested on his way home from the town of Caibarién, where he was leading meetings with human rights campaigners who were discussing responses to a series of religious violations affecting Apostolic Movement churches in central and eastern Cuba.

But the last application, for a rally in favor of same - sex unions, must be accepted or the District of Columbia would accuse the school of a human rights violation.

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

While abundant, dramatic violations of human rights still dominate the headlines, the last half - century has seen explosive growth in human rights consciousness and activism and in international humans rights laws and institutions.

Every year, the State Department issues the «Trafficking in Persons Report,» a document that tracks human trafficking, slavery, the use of child soldiers and other human rights violations across the world.

The violation of human rights is the consequence of the power being in the hands of a few and its misuse by them.

Conservatives charge that radicals have ignored the evidence of a strong Marxist - Leninist element in the Sandinista government, and also ignored Nicaragua's growing list of human - rights violations.

Early in 2001 an international commission of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for international intervention in cases of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.

The EU Court of Human Rights may reverse a national vote in the next few years, declaring the election of a right - wing candidate a violation of human riHuman Rights may reverse a national vote in the next few years, declaring the election of a right - wing candidate a violation of human rRights may reverse a national vote in the next few years, declaring the election of a right - wing candidate a violation of human rihuman rightsrights.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

Why do not the Institute on Religion and Democracy and the National Association of Evangelicals condemn human - rights violations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Chile as vigorously and frequently as they do human - rights violations in Nicaragua?

This same battalion has been implicated in numerous human rights violations.2 Also, shortly before the murder of the Jesuits the U.S. - trained Salvadoran Air Force produced and distributed a leaflet saying:

«The perpetration of injustices and the violation of human rights, especially the right to life and to live in peace and security, sow fresh seeds of hatred and resentment,» he said.

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The systematic integration of the forces that are dominant in the globalization process intensifies human rights violations.