Sentences with phrase «violence against groups»

She says there's a documented «deeply troubling history» of violence against groups that defend a women's right to choose abortion, including murders of abortion providers, like Buffalo obstetrician Bernard Slepian, as well as clinic bombings and arsons.

Whatever our philosophy, we had better use it to moderate the tendency that is in all of us to look to violence to settle issues between groups in a world whose technology makes violence against groups ever more likely to destroy all who participate in it, or advocate it, along perhaps with nearly everyone else.

You seem to fall into the camp that says violence against groups you disagree with is acceptable, I get it.

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On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

Heather Copelas, a spokesperson for retailer Jordan's Furniture Inc., based in Avon, Mass., says that in 1999 her company joined a group called Employers Against Domestic Violence.

The numbers underscore why major health industry trade groups like the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association, and others have all endorsed legislative reforms they believe can help turn the tide against gun violence.

A statement to commit violence against a vulnerable person or group such as «heads - of - state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists» counts here too.

Facebook looks for «credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller).»

«Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people,» the company wrote in statement on Thursday.

In October, the site implemented a ban on content that «glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.»

In March, United Nations investigators concluded that disinformation campaigns facilitated by Facebook have played a «determining role» in inciting violence against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority ethnic group.

Today's attack prompted the student wing of a Pakistani Islamic group Jamaat - e-Islami to protest against the Taliban's violence.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

I constantly hear of large groups of gays protesting against the rights of Christians to marry other Christians, telling adolescent Christians they are immoral and committing acts of violence against Christians.

Regardless, I do not advocate violence against or between the religious groups.

Violence against Christians in the Punjab is sadly nothing new: observers mark over 30 group incidents against Christians since September 11, 2001.

When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

Doesn't anyone see what is coming — is it not obvious, war is coming, and it will be middle america against these religious groups, and they already love violence and know how to kil.

Whether violence was widespread or not, accusations of violence were a standard feature of Christian polemics against rival Christian groups.

Human rights groups within and outside your neighborhood protest against the violence.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

(that is the same «mentality» that lead to violence against doctors and nurses, violence against funerals, priests crimes, bishops crimes, Jame Jones in Guiana, Wacko (wacko), violence against other groups..

Muslims unite against the intolerance within your religion and publicly denounce the violence, create groups that promote peace and anti-jihad sentiment and then come back to the table and ask for the same rights we have.

I When we think of violence, what first comes to mind are violent acts by individuals or groups against individuals.

This has lead to prejudice, oppression, exclusion, and an alarming rate of violence committed against and suicide from within this group.

I read those Old Testament accounts and, similar to Jeremy, see that they reveal the heart of man, the wickedness that lies within him, not the violence and hatred of God against certain people groups.

«In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.»

By design, terrorism is an unpredictable use of violence against an individual, group, community, or nation to attain the goal of the perpetrators.

Premier spoke to Natalie Collins, who started Spark - a group that equips churches to prevent violence against women.

Many other groups (such as Minneapolis's Organizing Against Pornography, state chapters of Women Against Violence Against Women, and local rape centers) have slide shows available for study groups.

Gun violence is common in parts of Nigeria's oil - producing Niger Delta region, where various militant groups take up arms against multinational companies to demand a share of oil proceeds.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

Publically inciting violence against a particula group of children has to be some sort of crime, can we please charge this guy?

Sociologist and theologian Elaine Storkey, author of Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, explains that a global pandemic affects women regardless of culture, region or country, or even to particular groups of women in a society.

Equality of all persons is a central and inescapable component of justice, and it deserves special focus because of the world's history of exploitation and violence against women, children, minority groups, and anyone considered as «other.»

You seem to think there is no reason to prevent violence against a marginalized group of people unless there is a compelling economic interest.

At some point, when feuding threatens to dissolve a community, spontaneous and irrational mob violence erupts against some distinctive person or minority in the group.

White supremacist groups have been threatening violence against protesters.

Which brings us back to your question: If violence against a ideological group is allowed, that introduces a large amount of variance (Who is considered part of the group?

The problem with supporting violence against an ideological group, lies in the nature of society and the unspoken rules that are required for it to function.

Indiscriminate violence against minorities as well as other Muslims by extremists groups who abuse the Islamic faith negates every visionary word Jinnah had uttered about the future secular and peaceful destiny of the country on the eve of its creation.

Fed - up New Yorkers who can't join the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence in Washington, D.C., next week can head to the Upper West Side on March 24, where anti-gun violence groups are inviting anyone who wants to support the Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivors to gather.

While the situation in Indonesia looks different from that of the Philippines, it follows a similar trajectory of increasing violence and discrimination against specific social groups.

«The reality is the only people supporting microstamping are a handful of unelected police chiefs beholden to politicians including Schimel and fringe groups like New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups.

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I certainly wasn't expecting to be woken up in the morning by a member of the group telling me that I should leave that very moment, because the group was threatening physical violence against me.»

Grisanti earlier today was endorsed by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, a group that has prominently supported the SAFE Act.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.