Sentence examples for community repression from inspiring English sources

STEVEN L. DENLINGER is a memoirist, journalist and screenwriter whose stories center around themes of community, repression and redemption.

Self-empowerment of the community against state repression and police brutality.

Photo caption: An indigenous woman in Monte Olivo, Guatemala, whose community has suffered repression linked to an IFC-backed project (Photo credits: Santiago Botón, TeleSUR Guatemala).

Project South connects movement lawyers with grassroots organizations to advocate for immigrant's rights and defend Muslim communities against state repression.

Not long ago autocrats could invoke the notion of "national sovereignty" and avoid any interference from the international community during the internal repression of their citizens.

Through political organizing and civic activism, human rights documentation, and efforts at inter-ethnic cooperation, the democracy movement provided evidence to both the domestic population and the international community of the ongoing repression of the military as well as the enduring thirst for freedom of the Burmese people.

Dam-affected communities have often suffered repression and human rights abuses.

Four former soldiers are accused of disappearing a 14-year-old called Marco Antonio Molina Theissen in 1981 — at the height of the army's repression of communities seen as potentially sympathetic to the guerrillas.

But over the last five years, amid the ratcheting up of government repression, the exile community has gone quiet.

Huala, currently detained in Argentina for the illegal posession of firearms, claims that the disappearance of Maldonado is just another instance of a long running policy of repression against his community by "para-police groups" in Patagonia.

Continuous repression as a community within social and political life in Pakistan has led some to blame themselves for their problems.