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SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan told Facebook Inc on Thursday that it should consider establishing a special team to respond more quickly to threats of sectarian violence in countries such as Myanmar that are at high risk.

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Persecution and Forgotten, a report of oppression in specific countries, warns that Christians in these countries will not survive if this violence continues and highlights «unspeakable atrocities» such as Christians in North Korea being starved, hanged on crosses over a fire and others being crushed under steam rollers.

, a report of oppression in specific countries, warns that Christians in these countries will not survive if this violence continues and highlights «unspeakable atrocities» such as Christians in North Korea being starved, hanged on crosses over a fire and others being crushed under steam rollers.

In many poor countries, due to such worsening social conditions, there is increasing social discontent, crime, violence, and civil war.

Since the special events held in 1993 in India, Britain, Japan, the USA and some other countries to mark the centenary of the World's Parliament of Religions there has been growing emphasis on the practical work that people of different faiths can do together to address the critical issues of today, such as violence, poverty and pollution.

The IWD otherwise known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace has since gained international recognition and celebrated world wide in different forms and even gained the status of a holiday in some countries such as Ukraine The day has also been marked under various themes encompassing peace and security, human rights, gender based violence, conflicts and hunger, education, gender equality, empowerment and affirmative actions, inclusion of woman in decision making, the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and many more.

2015 is just a week old, but we have already seen two worrying trends for Syrians fleeing the violence of war: first, an increase in restrictions imposed on those seeking to settle in neighbouring countries such as Lebanon; and secondly, even more refugees boarding boats and taking risky journeys in the Mediterranean.

In a kinder, saner country, we might even mention some of the things the right to family life has achieved, such as keeping elderly couples together when one of them is taken into care, or keeping domestic violence survivors with their children when defending them against their abuser.

Extreme weather such as droughts and floods could hurt agricultural production in some countries, leading to violence there or elsewhere by people who are desperate for food.

«We believe some factors contributing to the higher risk may include long - term exposure to poor living conditions and stressors in transition countries including anxiety, racism, domestic or personal violence and major life events, such as a death in the family — to name a few,» said Dr. Wanigaratne.

The research team was therefore able to calculate how the incidence rose and fell in each country in relation to violence, while controlling for other factors such as economic development, refugee influx, and the year of the region's broader epidemic, which generally peaked in 1996.

The election was monitored by numerous international missions representing over 170 countries, and regional bodies such as the OAS and UNASUR supported the result, while encouraging a dialogue between the government and opposition to prevent any further post-election violence, which had claimed seven lives in the days following the contested poll.

Coming from countries plagued by war and violence such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea, daily many risk their lives through this perilous journey either by crossing the Mediterranean or through the Balkans (from Greece to Hungary) in hope for a better future.

As I wrote in the AJC, the exhibition documents a building anger that would erupt in 1967 both on the streets and in large - scale canvases such as «American People Series # 20: Die,» a «Guernica» of sorts depicting the violence happening across the country in a bloody tableau.

These materials are used to produce sculptures, installations and performances that provide a poignant and visceral comment on her country's attitudes towards death and the extreme violence perpetrated in areas such as Northern Mexico, where cartel wars and murders of women are endemic.

Horrifically timely in light of the escalating violence and doomed gun debate facing our country at the moment, these loaded metaphors hit upon our inherent attraction and repulsion to such artifacts, isolating them in the aesthetic frame of the objet trouve.

But still the attack seems to belong to another era, an age of outrage, violence and censorship before sculpture became such a familiar, not to say popular, art form in this country.

By contrast, a report to the Scottish Parliament in 2003, A Critical Examination of Responses to Prostitution in Four Countries: Victoria, Australia; Ireland; the Netherlands; and Sweden, found that countries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence againCountries: Victoria, Australia; Ireland; the Netherlands; and Sweden, found that countries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence againcountries (such as the Netherlands) which had legalised and / or regulated prostitution had seen a dramatic increase in all aspects of the sex industry and a corresponding increase in organised crime and violence against women.

According to monero's website, the decentralized network has dozens of active nodes in countries with well - known censorship issues, including Russia and China, plus a few in countries with religious violence and military tensions such as Israel and Turkey.

Healing has also emerged in these countries as a significant process for empowering Indigenous communities and creating improved partnerships to address the legacy of family violence and abuse (including legacies of past government processes, such as the residential schools system in Canada).

Knowledgeable Muslims throughout the world such as therapists and community leaders I have worked with who are from Pakistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia similarly have told me of the dire in their countries to teach skills that would be antidotes to domestic violence.