Sentence examples for halt violations from inspiring English sources

Democrats do not want to rely entirely on the department, but say that individuals and civil rights groups should be able to file suit to halt violations.

These include: clear directives by those in positions of authority within armed forces and groups to halt violations against children, meaning that children must not be recruited into the fighting, nor targeted.

A prominent Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Shabir Ahmed Shah, welcomed the invitation, but said the Indian government must first release political prisoners, rescind security laws and halt rights violations first.

President Bush was presented with a letter signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.

Reversing such discrimination must be a priority for the new government "to halt ongoing violations and prevent further ones taking place against Myanmar's ethnic and religious minorities," Zeid said.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Working conditions at Foxconn's gargantuan Chinese factories that assemble Apple Inc's slick gadgets have barely improved despite pledges this year to halt labor violations, workers' rights activists and employees said on Thursday.

The consent decree, as it is known, is essentially a settlement in which the city agrees to take steps toward halting its violations.

"Action plans are critical to commit parties in conflict, to halt the violation of children's rights," she said.

Concerned about the loss of nearly three million factory jobs since January 2001, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. is asking President Bush to impose punitive tariffs of up to 77percentt on China or to elicit a pledge to halt all such violations.

Last week, a federal judge, citing labor law violations, halted new cost-cutting measures the city had imposed last year to make convention venues like the McCormick Place more attractive to event organizers.

Inexcusably, he has done nothing to halt gross human rights violations by the army against civilians, especially ethnic minorities.