Example sentences of "[noun] by [art] [adj] rights [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It follows a campaign by a civil rights activist called John Bugg . |
2 | A report published in London on the same day by the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that over 200 people arrested in late 1990 had died or been executed in military or police custody . |
3 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
4 | A statement by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Feb. 5 said that the recent trials of Tiananmen dissidents fell " far short of international standards " . |
5 | The authorities categorically rejected a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International in May 1989 which accused them of torturing political prisoners by subjecting them to beatings or sexual abuse . |
6 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International prepared over the previous five years , and released on June 19 , concluded that government inaction had allowed the proliferation of death squads run by prison officers and off-duty policemen . |
7 | In November 1989 a government spokesperson described as " false and unfounded " a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International which contained allegations of human rights abuses and torture and ill-treatment of prisoners . |
8 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International of Oct. 31 , 1989 , claimed that more than 500 people had been tortured since the beginning of 1989 , and that the use of torture had continued " unabated " despite Turkey 's ratification of international agreements against torture [ see pp. 35984 ; 36565 ] . |
9 | According to a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , some 30 parliamentarians and other high-ranking officials were arrested in early December for advocating the introduction of a multiparty system . |
10 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International published on March 27 said that 650 political prisoners were held in Moroccan prisons and that many of them had been tortured . |
11 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International ( AI ) on Nov. 26 criticized the " unfair barriers " erected against asylum seekers in Europe . |
12 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , released to coincide with the anniversary and cataloguing a history of discrimination , violence and injustice , stated that " the mass killings of indigenous peoples may have reduced over the past 500 years but they have never stopped " . |
13 | Reports of atrocities by both sides were widespread and a report by the human rights group Amnesty International published in July 1990 ( which was angrily rejected by Narakobi ) was highly critical of the behaviour of the security forces . |
14 | The departure of Gates coincided with the release of a report by the human rights group Amnesty International which condemned the LAPD for routinely using excessive force and " cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment " particularly against black and Hispanic suspects . |
15 | The latest report by the human rights office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala was issued in late July and covered the first six months of 1992 . |
16 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
17 | There follows an attempted conspiracy by ‘ I-narrators ’ in the aim of increasing their prominence and defining their specific needs , a revolt by several characters against their authors ( most notably Oedipa Maas from The Crying of Lot 49 who declaims her views as a feminist despite Pynchon 's ‘ macho ’ stance ) , and finally , a protest by a gay rights group against the under-representation of homosexuality in literature . |
18 | Yesterday , the Soviet Union blamed Britain for the cancellation of a visit by a human rights delegation , saying British officials insisted on sending Mr Michael Bourdeaux of Keston College — someone they knew would not be given a Soviet visa . |
19 | On July 3 Sudan Radio denied a report in June by the human rights organization Amnesty International to the effect that at least 60 political prisoners remained in custody [ for April amnesty see p. 38136 ] . |