Sentence examples for ongoing persecution from inspiring English sources

Did the pre-existing and ongoing persecution of gay men exacerbate the crisis?

Iran has long been condemned for its ongoing persecution of journalists, which has been stepped up in recent months.

Even in those countries where there is no active and ongoing persecution, Christians are second-class citizens at best.

There are around 440 pairs of golden eagles resident in the UK today, but behind this number is a story of vacant territories and missing birds, a history of decline and ongoing persecution.

The Burmese government's ongoing persecution of the Rohingya has, in the last two years, reached a level so untenable that the Rohingya are faced with only two options, to remain and risk annihilation or flee.

Myanmar demotion to the bottom tier is a strong indication that the US expects the country's democratically elected government to take action on human rights abuses, including the continued use of child soldiers, forced labour and the ongoing persecution of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

He immediately ended any ongoing persecutions and offered Christians full restitution of what they had lost under the persecution.

For more on this subject, I recommend: * The Council on Foreign Relations has a podcast with Ellen Bork, director of Democracy and Human Rights at the Foreign Policy Initiative, on "the relationship between China and Tibet and the ongoing religious persecution in Tibet".

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is one of many international organisations and NGOs to have condemned the continued use of the Sedition Act in general, and its use in this case in particular.Another group, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, accused the Malaysian government of "an ongoing systematic persecution" of the opposition.

"To light a Candle," another eye-opening film from Bahari utilizes dozens of heartbreaking interviews to tell the story of those Baha'is who have lost family members over the past three decades due to ongoing religious persecution.

Similarly, raising the profile of female farmers by explicitly referencing them in policy documents is far from a sufficient response to the ongoing and violent persecution of activists like Cáceres and Urquía.