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A flurry of domestic violence cases at the collegiate and professional level marred the integrity of the game off - field, as well as questionable handling of the cases by football executives.

Not exact matches

«The board has an obligation to prevent this violence from happening again and you can't say that you value women's rights at the same time that you say that these types of cases have to go into confidential arbitration,» Christensen said.

«Conflicts and natural disasters put these women and their babies at risk because of the sudden loss of medical support, compounded in many cases by trauma, malnutrition or disease, and exposure to violence.»

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

«If that is the case,» responded Borden Spears, a senior editor at the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, «the news media are seriously distorting reality; the proportion of violence in human experience, which the press claims to reflect, is not that high.»

Kristen Leslie, an assistant professor in pastoral care at Yale Divinity School, visited the academy in the summer of 2004 to observe basic training and help the chaplains respond to cases of sexual violence.

That is, if one's interlocutor is being threatened with violence, torture, or death at the same time as he is being confronted with a polemical argument, and if the outcome of the latter determines whether he is killed, tortured, forcibly converted, or whatever (this was, of course, the case for many Jews in medieval Europe), then it is exceedingly doubtful that the polemic is morally proper.

The undertone to all of these is that the perpetrator in each case saw violence to be his or her best opportunity at the moment.

Our democracy is a light, a beacon, around the world because we affect change at the ballot box and not because of these... outbursts of violence in certain cases.

On Rivers» general electoral anarchy: «Shocking cases of cold blooded killings and beheading, obstruction of votes, arson, voter intimidation, ballot snatching, missing result sheets, presenting of fake ballot papers, multiple thumb - printing, campaigning at polling units, compromise of ad - hoc staffs, absence of level playing environment, violence against media personnel and impunity were witnessed in different magnitude across the length and breadth of the state.

A top official at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who was found to have threatened female employees with physical violence and engaged in years of sexual harassment, racism and ageism was not disciplined by the agency, which instead punished two women who provided testimony about the case to the state IG's office.

At the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 17 September 2011, Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Jennifer Welsh, from the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), discussed the concept of the «Responsibility to Protect» or R2P in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and post-election violence in Kenya.

My report finds that whilst the Constitution has been referred to in only a limited fashion in cases involving the protection and enhancement of women's rights, notable exceptions include violence against women resulting from religious edicts: «In response to a spate of violence directed at young rural women as part of their sentencing by fatwa... the Supreme Court declared such sentences unconstitutional in 2001.»

While lamenting the increase in domestic violence and child abuse cases in the State, the Commissioner noted that, many of such cases are been reported at the Ministry on a daily bases.

For instance, 40 % quotas on all electoral lists, harsher punishments for men in cases of domestic violence, special judicial and economic assistance for women who are victims of gender violence, a requirement for corporations with more than 250 employees to have their own equality plan aimed at eliminating discrimination against women, etc..

Also at 1 p.m., the family of Akai Gurley joins families impacted by police violence to demand justice in the case of a police officer, in front of the Supreme Court of New York, 320 Jay St., Brooklyn.

Following the increase in cases of rape and violence against women and young girls, the Police High Command has established a forensic detection and investigation unit at the Force Criminal Investigations Department to ensure justice to those...

«Whether it's corruption in Albany, whether its domestic violence at home, people have to have confidence that the chief lawyer of the state is behind them — and that is not the case, whether it's the Moreland Commission, whether it's sexual abuse and domestic violence, our attorney general has been complicit.»

At 2 p.m., NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. will host a press conference to announce charges in two cases relating to gang violence and narcotics trafficking, NYPD Headquarters, One Police Plaza, 2nd Floor Press Room, Manhattan.

Following the increase in cases of rape and violence against women and young girls, the Police High Command has established a forensic detection and investigation unit at the Force Criminal Investigations Department to ensure justice to those violated.

She also expressed revulsion at Trump's appointment of Trump for President CEO Stephen Bannon — who was once charged in a domestic violence case in 1996 and who ran Breitbart News, a far - right website that flirted with racism and anti-Semitism — as his chief strategist and senior counselor, expressing agreement with the Anti-Defamation League.

Speaking at a press briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa on the activities of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) in the last one year, the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, said government, through the agency, equally handled a total of 192 cases.

«The problem in any specific case is that you can't really know for sure whether an incident would have happened had not there been, say, a lot of media violence exposure,» says psychologist Craig Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State Univiolence exposure,» says psychologist Craig Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Violence at Iowa State UniViolence at Iowa State University.

«With this research, I hope to establish that prisons, with appropriate policies and staff training, can address the mental health needs of prisoners with severe mental illness,» said Galanek, PhD, MPH a medical anthropologist and research associate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences» Begun Center for Violence Education and Prevention Research at Case Western Reserve.

In this very unusual case, our emotions don't distinguish between gratuitous violence and acts aimed at promoting the general good.»

«Even though this genetic predisposition is a strong risk factor for violence, it still needs other factors to bring it out, in this case alcohol,» says Han Brunner at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently trained a machine - learning algorithm on nearly 29,000 domestic violence cases to see how it might perform.

While poring over cases associated with violent crime at the bureau, Mitchell also noted «a trend in that this violence was taking place in communities of color and poor white communities,» he says.

For the study, published online in May in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 423 male students at a large Midwestern university (not Case Western Reserve) completed extensive questionnaires in 2012 - 13; their responses were anonymous to protect their privacy.

Case numbers of guinea worm disease are at an all - time low, but violence in South Sudan could lead to a resurgence next year.

He wants to leave behind his life of violence and drifting — «I'm out,» he says at one point, in case we were wondering — and to find the kind of human connection that his temperament and his job have denied him up to now.

At times, Brooks seems to be over-sympathizing and romanticizing these two killers, but based on this film as well as the equally phenomenal «Capote», it seems like the Perry Smith character (in this case played by Robert Blake) had a heart and was truly sorry for his heinous act of violence.

Let It Fall takes a unique and in - depth look at the years and events leading up to the city - wide violence that began April 29, 1992, when the verdict was announced in the Rodney King case.

This riveting 1976 film is at once a thriller, a psychological case study, an exploration of the eroticism of violence, a polit...

The Mummy Rated PG - 13 for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 16 % Universal Studios really wants to get this monster movie thing going again and in this case they throw a huge budget at The Mummy by bringing on Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe (as Dr. Henry Jeckyll).

Unlike the William Golding novel, there's nothing at stake here, and yet many of the kids act like complete psychopaths, resorting to violence, manipulation, and in some cases, torture.

By situating the audience perspective at the borders of grotesque violence, both at a remove in the case of the CCTV cameras and in decontextualizing, arresting close - ups with the help of cinematographer Tom Townend, Ramsay conveys a more ruminative position on the effects of violence.

In IDP camps, there are cases where the perpetrator is allowed to remain in the community through a community settlement out of fear that the perpetrator would be given a lengthy service in the formal justice system, putting survivors at risk of reprisals and further sexual violence.

Students linked to a domestic violence case performed at lower levels academically and were more likely to have been involved in a disciplinary incident than other students in the district.

It would take five years before the case would be put in front of a second jury and leave them to decide whether Arias was a cold, calculating killer or the victim of extreme domestic violence at the hands of an abusive boyfriend?

«Seinen,» however, has a lot of different connotations; while ostensibly denoting a comic For Mature (male) Readers, the banner can encompass basically anything from borderline porn to stories aimed at 40 - year old salarymen, or — in the case of some of the material in Weekly Young Jump — shonen manga with just a little too much sex or violence, or even just plain vanilla shonen manga the editors figure will have a better shot with a slightly older audience.

Dr. Barbara Boat, a speaker at CHAI's conference on the connection between violence toward people and toward animals, presented the case of a five - or six - year - old girl who had been severely abused, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Tom Flanagan testifies at a speaker forum sponsored by Massachusetts State Rep. Katherine Clark of Melrose as to the importance of including provision for animals in the issuance of temporary restraining orders in cases of domestic violence.

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If you or or someone you know needs help housing their pets while seeking shelter from domestic violence, please ask that person's case worker or advocate to contact us at [phone] or [email protected].

In some cases, 60 % of domestic violence offenders also abused animals at some point and 70 % of the most violent prisoners in a study of federal prisons, had serious animal abuse in their histories.

This approval process, along with the localisation process can take a very long time and so some games may not be released until long after they have released in the West, or in the case of Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China they may end up being banned at the last minute due to cultural insensitivity and violence issues.

This event will look at the project «The Ayotzinapa Case — a cartography of violence» as a starting point for a larger discussion on Forensic Architecture's working methods and media technology as a tool to counter official versions of events.

Similarly, while some domestic violence cases remain within scope (those with leave to remain as a partner of a settled person or in the UK as the partner of an EEA national) this leaves many migrant clients who are here with different forms of leave or no leave at all in a very vulnerable position.

Lord Walker remarked that in a case such as Austin: ``... it seems to me unrealistic to contend that Art 5 can come into play at all, provided, and it is a very important proviso, that the actions of the police are proportionate and reasonable, and any confinement is restricted to a reasonable minimum, as to discomfort and as to time, as is necessary for the relevant purpose, namely the prevention of serious public disorder and violence» (at [61]-RRB-.