Sentences with phrase «violence against minorities»

The social network said that IRA had made numerous posts and pages that were pro-Trump, pro-border security, anti-police violence against minorities, and similar topics.

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.

Point being that relativism isn't a very applicable standard to use when we're talking about violence against minorities.

increasingly controlled by rightwing Hindu extremists who condone and in some cases actively support violence against minorities, especially the Muslim minority.

Although these claims are not new, his repetition and vitriolic delivery has been a catalyst for increased violence against minority communities.

But what is to be done when visibility incites violence against the minority?

Not exact matches

Indeed, we have seen a large increase of reported incidents of violence against Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, ethnic minorities, and the LGBT community since the election last week.

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.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

The President has faced criticism in recent months for acknowledging that American history, and indeed Christian history, includes racism, violence, injustice, and oppression — particularly against minority and indigenous people — a reality some would rather sweep under the rug.

Their suffering justifies the majority in using violence against the oppressive minority.

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

Some Christians have tolerated violence against gays, women and children, minorities, etc., for a very long time.

(UPDATED) Violence against religious minorities continues to rise, but some Christians have decided to fight back.

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.

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says more than 600 acts of violence against religious minorities, including Christians, have happened since May this year.

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.»

He said the violence against Christians and other religious minorities had left him «in dismay and disbelief».

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.

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When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.

If you want to stop the violence against cops, start vigorously prosecuting cops who willy - nilly assassinate and / or brutalize minority citizens in America.

This trend toward scientific omission has reinforced local social stigma and violence directed against this minority.

Far - right extremists are those who adhere to such beliefs and commit lethal acts of violence against both political targets and social minorities.

Not unlike «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» offered up its own eerie supernatural tale of minorities rising up against a brutal white oppressor — a 2018 movie in»60s Cold War drag, its themes driven home via passages of exquisite if strenuous lyricism and a few sadistic jolts of violence.

This swell of nationalism swiftly spilled over into violence against local ethnic minorities, and director Abe Forsythe has made a very funny speculative fiction about the day after the carve - up.

«The Hood Maker» pits Game Of Thrones» Richard Madden as a cop with a psychic partner (Holliday Grainger) in a world that has just passed laws allowing telepathic scanning of all people, triggering outraged violence against the superpowered minority.

Among them were Tarana Burke (founder of the resurgent #MeToo movement), Saru Jayaraman (a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers), Billie Jean King (tennis champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association), and Marai Larasi (executive director of Imkaan, the group working to end violence against black and minority women).

Bond: Marai Larasi, (right) arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson (left) and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls

Marai Larasi, arrived as a guest of Tessa Thompson and she is the executive director of Imkaan, a British black feminist organisation which campaigns against violence towards black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls.

Recognize violence and discrimination against students with disabilities, and those from indigenous, minority and other marginalized communities.

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Installation art was also popular with political activists; in Barbara Kruger's 1991 installation at Mary Boone Gallery in New York walls, ceilings and floors were covered with material relating to violence against women and minorities.

Notorious for insulting women, gay people and ethnic minorities and inciting violence against them, he is promising, if elected, to put an end to the demarcation of indigenous and quilombo territories and to stop the public funding of NGOs.

Human rights advocates and journalists have made the case that Facebook was being used to spread misinformation in the country, adding fuel to ethnic violence against a Muslim minority group called the Rohingya.

Civil society and rights groups in Myanmar said Facebook has failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incites violence against the country's Muslim minorities, neglecting to effectively enforce its own rules.

The social media behemoth has been «used to convey public messages but we know that the ultra-nationalist Buddhists have their own Facebooks and are really inciting a lot of violence and a lot of hatred against the Rohingya or other ethnic minorities,» Lee said, cited by The Guardian.

Last week, language was inserted into Ohio's Mid-Biennium Review budget bill that would have restricted Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funds as well as funds from the Violence Against Women Act, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, the Infertility Prevention Project, and the Minority HIV / ADS Initiative.

They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.

A minority of people have tried to couch sexual violence against women as being part of Aboriginal customary law.

By James Guay, LMFT Due to societal prejudice, discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people, rates of depression, anxiety, suicide attempts, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use and physical health disparities, are common among sexual and gender minorities.