Sentence examples for attacks against defenders from inspiring English sources

Amnesty International reports that killings by the security forces have increased and says a "wave of attacks" against defenders of human rights is under way.Frank La Rue, who heads a presidential commission on human rights, acknowledges the gravity of the situation.

"We've registered an alarming increase of threats and attacks against defenders in the region, in large part due to authoritarian policies and militarization," she noted.

However, as backers of numerous projects involving attacks against environmental defenders, bodies such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank muse use their significant influence to ensure that their own activities – and those of their borrowers – aren't fuelling violence.

"The international community has been turning a blind eye for years to attacks against human-rights defenders and journalists in Congo," says HRW's Anneke Van Woudenberg.That may now be harder to do.

"Because they have the support of the United States, they have the support, or the silence, of the international community, that is seen here as a green signal, that's why they are proceeding — more repression, more attacks against human rights defenders".

After strong resistance against the 60th (London) Division's attacks against the Ottoman defenders at Sheria (supported by a light-horse charge on 7 November), the position was captured by infantry just before dusk on 7 November.

It is putting pressure on states to improve their records across a whole range of human rights issues including freedom of association, attacks against human rights defenders and rights for lesbians and gays.

We know that threats and physical attacks against human rights defenders are particularly common in Latin America, and according to a report by Global Witness, Honduras is "the most dangerous country per capita to be an environmental activist... with 101 deaths between 2010 and 2014".

Meanwhile, threats and attacks against survivors and their defenders go on.

The basis of the algorithm depends on how an attacker attacks to a defender by four different associated techniques.

While the U.S. 3rd Battalion with artillery support conducted frontal attacks against the position to pin the defenders, the U.S. 1st Battalion attempted to flank the Gifu on the east.