Legitimizing violence against women as a weapon of patriarchy

Fears that it may be used as a weapon may not be totally unfounded.

Clearly, Ak Zhol used accusations of impropriety as a weapon against the government parties.

For the purpose of this Act, nuclear weapons include nuclear explosive devices that are not intended for use as a weapon.

The research by the FSP should also go toward understand men's mentality and use of power as a weapon to suppress women.

Hundreds of thousands were killed as a result of the Red Terror, forced deportations, or from the use of hunger as a weapon under Mengistu's rule.

This is the first time in our recorded history of over 2,500 years that we have experienced the sea as a veritable weapon of mass destruction.

Fact is, I acknowledge the old theological rift and the communal differences but I emphasize their modern political weaponization. Iyad El Baghdadi ( iyad_elbaghdadi) January 13, 2016

The warring parties habitually use the rape of women as a weapon of war, so as to humiliate and terrorize the population.

Public information was even used as a weapon to provoke the overthrow of sovereign States, in flagrant violation of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Up to 500,000 were killed as a result of the Red Terror, from forced deportations, or from the use of hunger as a weapon under Mengistu's rule.

Influence on the United Nations Several studies suggest that foreign aid is used as a political weapon for the U.S. to elicit desired actions from other nations.

The original type of Szabla, or Polish sabre, was used as a cavalry weapon, possibly inspired by Hungarian or wider Turco Mongol warfare.

She is also a contributor to Women Under Siege, a project that examines sexual violence as a weapon of war.

In particular, the rape of refugee women as a weapon of conflict and the abduction and humiliation of refugee children continued to be routine features of displacement situations.

And in that disconnected state, yeah, we can build factory farms with no windows, destroy marine life and use rape as a weapon of war.

SWAN and SHRF argue that rape is used as a weapon in the Burmese military s war against ethnic minorities.

It is disheartening that sexual and gender based violence, including trafficking in persons, continue to be used as weapons of war in conflicts.

The ruling coalitions can finally afford, at least temporarily, the luxury of populism that opposition parties used as their main weapon in the last few years.

Yes, the IMF ought to develop a voluntary code of conduct for SWF s, but it should not be used as a weapon to enforce financial protectionism.

Failure at today s London conference is also likely to be used as a rhetorical weapon against the large Western governments, and to provide a rationale for implementing new forms of state capitalism.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, marauding gangs purporting to be freedom fighters, and the government armies they fight, have for decades used rape as a weapon against defenseless women.

The right to food and the right to health are fundamental human rights, but the denial of humanitarian access is increasingly used as a political tool, and even as a weapon of war.

Indeed, Georgia is Russia s choke point in its policy of using oil and gas as strategic foreign policy weapons, which it has done repeatedly.

Gender based sexual violence obstructs peace and development, particularly when it is a weapon used by military dictatorships against their own peoples.

Parallel to this, the use of land, water, food, the demolition of homes and the destruction of the general economy as a weapon against the occupied population have resulted in a deterioration of the living conditions in the OPT.

But in other ways Russia has been unhelpful using energy resources as a political weapon, for example, and in their resistance to positive political changes in neighboring countries.

The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.

Reports from many conflict zones indicate that rape continues to be used as a weapon of war and, yet again, there has been little indication that the perpetrators will be held accountable by the Government.

At the end of 1984, such activities included research on wheat smut with a view to finding suitable measures for crop protection, as well as investigating this agent as a possible weapon that would cause economic loss.

The scandal looked like an obvious weapon to be used in the war of rival models of business organization critics portrayed Parmalat as the latest manifestation of a crisis of European style family capitalism.

So back in Abidjan, I was given a chance to lead a workshop with local cartoonists there and I thought, yes, in a context like this, cartoons can really be used as weapons against the other side.

I went to Congo with MSF, and contributed to a book and an exhibition that focused attention on a forgotten war in which millions of people have died, and exposure to disease without treatment is used as a weapon.

The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.

Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey s EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island s north.

A report reflecting the joint judgment of US intelligence agencies warned last year that the use of water as a weapon of war or a tool of terrorism would become more likely in the next decade in some regions.

Anthrax was first tested as a biological warfare agent by Unit 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the 1930s some of this testing involved intentional infection of prisoners of war, thousands of whom died.

Such abuse of power is inadmissible, and we expect ASEAN to address the military s use of rape in the conflict in Burma.

Despite serious problems with extraction, production and depletion (production at three of Russia s four major fields is already declining), the propensity to use hydrocarbon resources as a geo strategic weapon trumps economics.

How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate in a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Such tactics are misguided. The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.

In late 2014, Russia cut off Ukraine completely, again signaling its readiness to use gas supplies as a weapon of foreign policy. The EU rushed in to broker a settlement that some contend was against Ukraine's interests.

Revaluation of its currency is necessary in part because the undervalued renminbi has become yet another a source of friction in Asia, as many in the region now believe the Chinese are using their currency as a policy weapon.

If the parties to a transaction could prove who had signed and what had been signed, there was no need for a separate abstract reliability test, which could trap the incautious and serve as a weapon for non parties seeking to attack the transaction.

In his famous 2002 speech on the potential of deflation in America, Bernanke suggested that Franklin Delano Roosevelt s 40 devaluation of the dollar in 1933 1934 shows that exchange rate policy can be an effective weapon against deflation.