• The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan, a coalition of free expression organizations that includes the Committee to Protect Journalists, has launched a website , Facebook and Twitter pages to highlight the country's long record of repression. (cpj.org)
  • In the new report, Life detained: Politically motivated arbitrary detentions continue in Venezuela Amnesty International denounces the Nicolás Maduro government's persisting policy of repression and documents the cases of nine people arbitrarily detained under this policy. (amnesty.org)
  • The evidence shows that Nicolás Maduro's government's policy of repression and the human rights crisis continue to jeopardise the rights to life, liberty and protection from harm in Venezuela. (amnesty.org)
  • The EPRDF government's heavy-handed repression has been accepted by the West because the Ethiopian army is a key ally for the US in the war against al-Shabab in Somalia and north-east Africa. (socialistworld.net)
  • Systemic and violent political repression is a typical feature of dictatorships, totalitarian states and similar regimes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Siemens Gamesa are profiting from Morocco's plunder of illegally occupied land & violent repression of the people of Western Sahara. (waronwant.org)
  • Parliament stresses that the repression perpetrated by the Nicaraguan authorities, armed forces, police and violent groups close to the government against peaceful protestors opposing the social security reform has cost the lives of 84 people since mid-April, with more than 860 injured and over 400 arrested. (europa.eu)
  • Brutal and violent government repression of worker rights activists has resulted in the death of a community guardian and the disappearance of four others in Algeria. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • Nassira Ghozlane, general secretary of the independent and autonomous Algerian trade union SNAPAP, is calling on civil society, human rights activists, autonomous unions, and all those who fight for the return of justice and freedom of expression in Algeria to condemn the use of violence, repression, and attacks on basic human dignity. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women's rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to women's rights to criminal activity. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Rather than addressing Iran's disturbing record on women's rights the Iranian authorities have once again opted for repression, accusing women's rights activists of collusion in western-orchestrated plots in a bid to maintain their discriminatory practices towards women. (amnesty.org.au)
  • In autocracies, the use of political repression is to prevent anti-regime support and mobilization. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the use of political repression varies depending on the authoritarian regime, it is argued that repression is a defining feature and the foundation of autocracies by creating a power hierarchy between the leader and citizenry, contributing to the longevity of the regime. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Iranian labour solidarity group Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign (SZAC), "As workers' strikes spread in many parts of Iran - particularly in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry of Khuzestan - the regime has once again stepped-up repression to break these struggles. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Article 18 , a United Kingdom-based watchdog group that promotes religious freedom and tolerance for Christians in Iran, reports that Mohammadi published a series of tweets on the day she was arrested, saying that the Iranian people faced "soft repression" in Iran as the regime creates "false beliefs through selective coverage of the news. (christianpost.com)
  • The Swedish Labour Market, c. 1870-1914: A Labour Market Regime without Repression? (lu.se)
  • Clientelism and repression are widely used to explain why states transition to a different regime type, suggesting that their presence or absence, degree or form, informs seminal changes. (lu.se)
  • This dissertation turns such arguments around, instead investigating how changes in regime affect clientelism and repression, allowing an investigation of change within elites, society and the state. (lu.se)
  • It looks at changes in clientelism and repression that did not lead to regime change, and at cases when clientelism and repression continue despite turnovers. (lu.se)
  • Prince Mohammed bin Salman became Minister of Defense in 2015 and Crown Prince in June 2017, and his rise to power tracks closely with the regime's recent transnational repression efforts. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Sexual repression is the conscious or unconscious suppression of sexual desires, thoughts, behaviors, or expressions. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • consciousness, censorship, repression, the unconscious, the return of the repressed, and the symptoms of the latter (which can range from jokes to parapraxes ['slips' of the tongue, etc.] to the experienced content of nonsensical dreams to neurotic symptoms, and more). (k-state.edu)
  • The Senegalese authorities are intensifying repression ahead of the 2024 presidential election by cracking down on human rights, restricting civic space, banning protests and detaining a journalist and opposition figures, Amnesty International said today. (amnesty.org)
  • Arbitrary detentions cannot continue to be a tool of repression and social control by the government," said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International. (amnesty.org)
  • In the passage in bold italic navy font, we have a succinct general statement of Freud's picture of the way repression functions within the personality as a whole. (k-state.edu)
  • This paper refers back to Freud's concepts of primal repression, repression and suppression. (bvsalud.org)
  • Through this motion picture, the following of Freud's concepts are analyzed, and the differentiation between them is discussed: suppression and repression, as well as the importance of their precise translation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The brutal 2018 murder and dismemberment of dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's Istanbul consulate brought transnational repression into popular awareness. (freedomhouse.org)
  • This article explores sexual repression, including its causes, possible effects, and how a person can manage or overcome it. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Early Years: Tolerance and Repression" explores the wide ranging language policies in the 18th and 19th century, from colonial acceptance and encouragement of multilingualism to later repression of the languages of Native Americans and West African slaves. (colorincolorado.org)
  • He believes the most neutral terms are repression and mass killings, although in Russian the broad concept of repression is commonly held to include mass killings and is sometimes assumed to be synonymous with it, which is not the case in other languages. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 200-page report, Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts over Land and Religion in Vietnam's Central Highlands , provides the most detailed account to date of the unrest that erupted in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in early 2001 and offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms of Vietnamese political repression. (hrw.org)
  • As this article has explained, sexual repression involves the suppression of sexual desires, thoughts, or behaviors. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The Soviet Union had a legal policy of repression of political opposition defined in its penal code and Cuba under Fulgencio Batista had a secret police agency officially named the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • State repression subsequently affects dissident mobilization, though the direction of this effect is still an open question. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mechanistically, upregulation of de novo methylation regulator Uhrf1 sensitively elevates CpG site methylation levels in promoters of both GPX4 and FSP1 genes and induces the epigenetic repression of both genes , subsequently leading to ferroptosis in chemically interfered AEC2 cells . (bvsalud.org)
  • For those of us fighting what can often feel like a losing battle against a rising tide of rights repression, Thunberg's words should offer a profoundly insightful message - a lightbulb moment - about the way forward for our struggle for a just, inclusive and sustainable world. (ipsnews.net)
  • These incidents continue the pattern of systematic repression against trade union activism and peaceful protest in Algeria by the authorities that have been denounced by the AFL-CIO . (solidaritycenter.org)
  • After more than three weeks on a hunger strike to protest government repression of the independent trade union movement, six women and two men from Algeria's National Federation of Justice Workers are increasingly frail and face grave, possibly permanent, health threats. (solidaritycenter.org)
  • MEPs condemned the brutal repression and intimidation of peaceful protesters in Nicaragua, and called for credible elections there, in a vote on Thursday. (europa.eu)
  • French diplomacy has, at the highest levels, long indulged President al-Sisi's brutal repression of any form of dissent. (hrw.org)
  • The effectiveness of the tactics differ: covert repression tactics cause dissidents to use less detectable opposition tactics while direct repression allows citizenry to witness and react to the repression. (wikipedia.org)
  • This act of political repression is in glaring contradiction to the sanctimonious declarations of 'shouldering responsibility' and 'taking heed of lessons' paid by the parties responsible for the crisis. (savingiceland.org)
  • While sexual repression and sexual frustration link as concepts, they differ in their underlying causes and manifestations. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Direct repression tactics are those targeting specific actors who become aware of the harm done to them while covert tactics rely on the threat of citizenry being caught (wiretapping and monitoring). (wikipedia.org)
  • A greater willingness to deploy force against demonstrators, combined with an expansion of the power and capabilities of Russia's security forces, are symptoms of a self-perpetuating "repression trap," whereby the expanded role of the security services amplifies the Kremlin's external threat assessment and justifies its use of greater repression at home. (csis.org)
  • Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens. (wikipedia.org)
  • A few years ago, I had a running joke with my fellow Asian American friends about "Asian repression," most of which were targeted at EDM-raving Asian Americans we knew and observed. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Mental health symptoms following war and repression in eastern Afghanistan. (who.int)
  • Political repression is often accompanied by violence, which might be legal or illegal according to domestic law. (wikipedia.org)
  • Repression tactics target the citizenry who are most likely to challenge the political ideology of the state in order for the government to remain in control. (wikipedia.org)
  • Where political repression is sanctioned and organised by the state, it may constitute state terrorism, genocide, politicide or crimes against humanity. (wikipedia.org)
  • If political repression is not carried out with the approval of the state, a section of government may still be responsible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Political conflict strongly increases the likelihood of state repression. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some strong evidence suggests that repression suppresses dissident mobilization by reducing the capacity of challengers to organize, yet it is also feasible that challengers can leverage state repressive behavior to spur mobilization among sympathizers by framing repression as a new grievance against the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • women fleeing gender-based repression in the country face characteristic transnational repression efforts from the state. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The Saudi transnational repression campaign is highly personalized, as befits an absolute monarchy where the royal house is identical to the state. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Some brief observations regarding attitudes towards the repression of the far-right by state forces. (libcom.org)
  • A person may experience sexual repression as a response to cultural norms, personal beliefs, or negative past experiences. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Additionally, not all religious beliefs regarding sexuality lead to sexual repression. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • This may arise from conflicting beliefs, desires, or self-judgment, which can all contribute to sexual repression. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In some states, "repression" can be an official term used in legislation or the names of government institutions. (wikipedia.org)
  • HRW states in DWF, "the Ethiopian government is using development aid as a tool of political repression by conditioning access to essential government services on support for the ruling party. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Five of the 10 physical cases of Saudi transnational repression documented by Freedom House were carried out against former insiders. (freedomhouse.org)
  • As in other cases Freedom House has studied, the physical campaign against former insiders is built on indirect and nonphysical means of repression. (freedomhouse.org)
  • We pathologized them as former do-gooders who were letting loose in the freedom of adulthood, their repression flaring up, overcompensating with drugs and bottle service in Vegas. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • While the US seeks to cloak its imperialist assault on Libya in "humanitarian" terms, its allies in the GCC are guilty of widespread violations of human rights and practice repression and torture in their own countries. (wsws.org)
  • This is arguably the most robust finding in social science research on political repression. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opinions of family, peers, or society regarding the appropriateness or acceptability of sexual expression may contribute to developing sexual repression. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • We confirmed a role for TGF-β1 in mediating MWCNT-induced repression of ESR1 mRNA expression using a TGF-β type-I receptor inhibitor in bronchial epithelial cells in vitro. (cdc.gov)
  • Political repression can also be reinforced by means outside of written policy, such as by public and private media ownership and by self-censorship within the public. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dozens of independent UN experts voiced alarm Friday over the repression of fundamental freedoms in China, demanding urgent action from the UN Hu. (barrons.com)
  • Sexual repression can lead to a decrease in interest in or avoidance of sexual activities. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • These influences may promote strict moral codes, taboos, or stigmatization of certain sexual behaviors, which can lead to the repression of sexual desires and expressions. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Traumatic experiences , such as sexual abuse, assault, or harassment, can lead to the repression of sexual desires and the development of psychological barriers as a protective mechanism. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Identifying signs and behaviors that may link with sexual repression can help individuals recognize and address its impact on their lives. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Feelings of shame and guilt surrounding sexual desires or actions are typical in those experiencing sexual repression. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Germans fleeing religious repression and war went to Pennsylvania and were the dominant ethnic group in an area that included Maryland and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (colorincolorado.org)