A gun-waving security guard demands cash as reparation for a damaged door and sign, and holds the swimmers against their will until such reparation is paid?
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And Reparation Hardware is mock ad for the exhibition that stars an abandoned New England barn, a field of urinating cows, and a wry Harris-Babou herself as the Reparation Hardware spokesperson.
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She's also made two videos: Red Sourcebook and Reparation Hardware.
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Playlist: Unstoppable / Life Sweet / Bad Reputation / Ghetto Life / Reparation ft.
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So what's up with the barn in the Reparation Hardware video?
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Despite these daunting obstacles, gay reparation is a struggle worth pursuing.
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Rather than hide an item's imperfections, the reparation process highlights them.
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So, in a way, this book is equal parts homage and reparation.
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"All the countries of the region should pass a similar law to ensure reparation of the femicide victims' relatives or reparation as part of a comprehensive law to address violence against women," said Kathleen Taylor of UN Women.
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Ilana Harris-Babou: Reparation Hardware runs at Larrie, NYC through March 11, 2018.
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Other public cases, such as a $40 billion civil reparation case, are suspended.
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Yes, the suffering of perpetrators matters in the process of healing and reparation.
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It would be one of the first reparation fees at a major U.S. institution.
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The resumption is considered vital for Samarco to meet its financial and reparation commitments.
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But we want a peace that genuinely guarantees truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition.
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In response to a question on whether he would support a reparation plan, Sen.
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With [Reparation Hardware], for example, it seems straightforward, but then it starts to unravel.
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The act of saying it began the reparation of the damage it had done.
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"We want a peace that genuinely guarantees truth, justice, reparation and non-repetition," he said.
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A spokeswoman for Porcell's office said the payment was a reparation to Panama by Odebrecht.
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He didn't tell me that this discrimination was some sort of reparation for past oppression.
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His visit is being described by the church as a "process of reparation and healing."
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The company was hit with various reparation costs and financial obligations related to the incident.
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" -The immediate passage of HR 40, "The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans.
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"Reparation Hardware" (2018) is a delightfully smarmy sendup of the luxury furniture brand Restoration Hardware.
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Most significantly, in 2014, the settlement that awarded Tūhoe $170 million in reparation for stolen land.
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"They are murdered by the tens of thousands, without investigation, judgment, sanction or reparation," it said.
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Reparation funds are valuable but can be tricky to implement, Morrison told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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There is also no recommendation of making reparation to the Iraqi people, let alone an apology.
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Finally, there's "truth-telling," or an official report on past wrongs that incorporates steps for reparation.
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But if history is any guide, gay reparation faces an uphill struggle in the United States.
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"I know you're scared to say black, I know you're scared to say reparation" a woman said.
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"Reparation from Harvard would compensate for its development on the backs of our people," Mr. Browne wrote.
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Anselm, a Catholic archbishop who died in 1109, argued that God's honour had been injured and needed reparation.
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It must make reparation and take action to ensure abuse in all forms is abolished from the church.
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According to the tale, the coin saved his life — and earned him a bottle of French wine as reparation.
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She will have to complete 150 hours of community work and pay an emotional harm reparation payment of $500.
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The head of Iraq's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Hassan Khudhair, said people who suffered in the conflict deserved reparation.
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Museum exhibits about slavery and the horrors of the black experience represent a nation deeply concerned with psychological reparation.
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Restoring herds to Native American land after 219 years would be a simple reparation for the country to make.
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The ruling infuriated Tokyo, which sees the former labourers' right to reparation ceased under a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties.
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You know, when I think about repatriation, the real thing, the concept in the back of my mind is reparation.
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The list could have gone on forever, so we just picked 10 actors who deserve one of Che's reparation Emmys.
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"The victims will be reassured they would get reparation at the end of the process," a Sherpa representative told Reuters.
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This adds more insult to the hit that Gucci would dare take a design of Dan's without permission or reparation.
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There is no commutation, settlement, or reparation that will feed somebody, but there is the redress of a clever monument.
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Japan denounced the ruling, which said the workers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty, as "unthinkable".
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The final step will be distribution, which will involve reparation of the telephone polls that were snapped in two by Maria.
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It urged the government to determine the fate of the disappeared; to punish those responsible; and to guarantee truth and reparation.
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Things might be different, he conceded, if the new generation of Bessingers were taking some sort of active steps toward reparation.
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Although there is no one-size-fits-all model when it comes to gay reparation, countries have taken three distinct approaches.
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Certainly, the case for gay reparation in the United States is as compelling, if not more so, than in other Western democracies.
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The reparation of their marriage was one of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's sweetest points so far — a stable relationship amidst all of Rebecca's turmoil.
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During that time Lopez allegedly depleted the couple's life savings, which included retirement funds and Holocaust reparation checks, while she gained their trust.
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The 1988 reparation laws originated with a commission established by Congress in 1980 to study wartime internment policies and report on potential legislation.
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Fox said that her mother in the past had considered asking for reparation from the Hungarian state but had never lodged an official request.
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Provided guerrilla commanders confess their crimes and offer at least symbolic reparation they will not face jail (though many Colombians think that too soft).
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After more than a year of wrangling, the FARC agreed to "contribute to the material reparation of the victims" but said it was broke.
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" Using the hashtags #MeToo, #NiUnaMenos and #NousToutes, she urged women everywhere to keep telling their stories of violence and "to demand accountability and reparation.
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Welfare was defined as reparation, the nuclear family was dismissed as an oppressive European construct, and requirements for welfare payments were portrayed as demeaning.
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Fitch Ratings downgraded the miner on Monday to BBB- from BBB+ because it also expects Vale to incur heavy reparation costs from the dam collapse.
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Their plan: demand that the European Union stop buying bananas from Colombia until the companies there decide to fund a reparation plan for all desplazados.
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I think Nancy definitely takes action, tries to do something to make some kind of reparation, but it's a hard thing to get justice for.
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Legend has it that she requested she be the last person to pass through the cemetery's central doorway after she donated money for its reparation.
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"It was simply an offer that was made in an attempt by the archdiocese to show sorrow and make reparation for what these individuals endured".
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Around 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) will be returned in total, although Coincheck said the method and period of reparation had yet to be decided.
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Giving the descendants of slaves reparation is a good gesture, but I honestly just think it is too late and that the time has passed.
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Heck, Google's even pulled out of some cities since — like Louisville, Kentucky, where it wound up paying millions in reparation for ripping up the roads.
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In January, a lower court ordered the seizure of some of Nippon's shares in a South Korean steel company, PNR, to pay for the reparation.
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Previous cases they had brought in Japan were dismissed on the grounds that their right to reparation was terminated by a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties.
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"I am hopeful that it could be up and going in that kind of two-week window depending on how the reparation work goes," Dushnisky said.
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This is all about the removal of access to structures of reparation: the disappearance of the welfare state, or its not coming into being at all.
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It added that neither the French legal system nor the Church required the payment of the money, and it was not intended to be a reparation.
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The calls for renewed reparation campaign comes ahead of Greek and Polish parliamentary elections this year - and of European Parliament elections across the bloc in May.
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Does the donor have a duty of reparation to people they have exploited or harmed that gives those parties more of a right to the money?
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Rossum isn't just asking for equal — the actress, who plays Fiona Gallagher on Shameless, wants more pay than Macy as reparation for the years she went underpaid.
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The cohost of the 2018 awards show gave out "reparation Emmys" to a half dozen black actors who never took home the prize during their shows' runs.
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Reparation requests for for citizens: U.S.: The U.S. paid Japanese American citizens reparations after wrongfully holding 22012,289 people in internment camps during World War II, reports Vox.
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It feels warm in the gallery hosting Reparation Hardware, a solo show from multidisciplinary artist Ilana Harris-Babou, but it has nothing to do with the temperature.
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The paper concludes, "Interactions which initially seem prone to attacks can nonetheless maintain civility, by way of level-headed interlocutors, as well as explicit acts of reparation."
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The court ruled that the former laborers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalizing diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo, Yonhap said.
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The accords ending the civil war in 1996 laid out various reparation measures for the victims, but advocacy groups say these are not being put into place.
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The actress allegedly doesn't just want equal pay, she'd like a higher salary than Macy, as a reparation of sorts for years past when Rossum received lower pay.
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Why it matters: The decision adds to a trend of America's oldest educational institutions admitting ties to slavery and approving reparation payments for the descendants of enslaved Africans.
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The U.S. isn't the first country to debate reparation payments for its citizens; nations have a long record of doling out compensatory payment to right their historic wrongs.
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This bit, too, was a bittersweet moment, as the time has long passed for the Black shows that Reparation Emmy recipients appeared in to win any actual awards.
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To Monkman, these works function almost as a form of reparation through re-appropriation; older painting styles that originated within European cultures are shown at their most destructive.
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The personal suffering inflicted by the opioid crisis is immeasurable, and the financial toll has been so staggering that it is difficult to imagine an equitable means of reparation.
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Reparative therapy's most alluring fiction is right there in its name: the idea of an Edenic reparation, a return to a Golden Age when life was much less complicated.
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Said Packer: You would be hard pressed to find many black Americans who have not thought about the concept of reparation, what would happen if reparations were actually given.
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But in fact, the family had long been traveling down a slow road of loss: away from its home, through poverty and grief, and toward some hope of reparation.
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"Vale reaffirms its total commitment to the prompt and fair reparation of damages caused to the families, to the infrastructure of communities and to the environment," the company said.
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And lastly, they stubbornly refused to recognize the mechanisms of transnational justice designed to redress human rights abuses in armed conflict, including criminal prosecution, truth commissions and reparation programs.
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I couldn't think about that' Earlier this year the government's Unit for Attention and Reparation of Victims had documented the cases of 8,942 children recruited by armed groups since 264.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International war crimes judges awarded $6.63 million in compensation on Friday to child soldiers recruited by convicted Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga - the largest reparation of it kind.
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The Schlecker family agreed in 2013 to return around 10 million euros to creditors and paid another 4 million euros this month as "reparation", Anton Schlecker had told the court.
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At a hearing last week, the House Judiciary Committee invited several scholars, celebrities and activists to testify about H.R. 40, legislation to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.
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With the surprise apology, the United States has taken its most significant leap yet into "gay reparation," or policies intended to address the legacy of state-sanctioned repression of homosexuals.
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"Anyone responsible for violations of international humanitarian law must be brought to justice and victims and their families should receive full reparation," Amnesty's interim Middle East director Magdalena Mughrabi said.
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But on screen, its broader subtext becomes much more explicit — it's a narrative, really, of brokenness and reparation, filtered through the particular experiences of black women in the American South.
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A statement said the purpose of the trip, due to start in the next few days, was to "move forward in the process of reparation, and healing for victims of abuse".
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Governments must also step in to prosecute abuses and ensure that businesses face the prospect of "remedy and reparation" if they are found to have committed or enabled abuses, she said.
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Or that restoring bison to the tribes at Fort Peck and elsewhere, after 150 years, ought to be one of the easier acts of reparation for the United States to undertake.
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To the other half, it's about that — as well as a paradigm shift in the culture, belated reparation for unequal treatment, and a battle in the service of a moral revolution.
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France sought to enforce the treaty as written, going so far as to occupy the Ruhr Valley region in January 1923, in response to Germany's failure to meet its reparation obligations.
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She imagined her talk as a kind of reparation: the lecture was about the need to recognize how hard it is, even with the best intentions, to live a virtuous life.
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For example, in France, Securite Reparation Automobile (SRA), a group backed by insurers, measures car parts inflation and publishes this in the hope it will help exert downward pressure on parts inflation.
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The court ruled that the former laborers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalizing diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo and Japanese courts, Yonhap news agency said.
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" He also called on Goldman Sachs to "have a heart" and to include a mention in its annual earnings report that it would "make some provisions for some reparation payments to Malaysia.
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Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas.) that would establish a commission to study the impact of slavery and continuing discrimination against black Americans, and make recommendations on reparation proposals for descendants of slaves.
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In 2002, along with the other 149 doping victims then registered to the Verein, Bonk received a payment of €10,500 from the German government—a reparation for the misdeeds of the GDR.
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Reparation programs are in their infancy, but several palm farmers in Guaviare province were recently told to vacate land in favor of another claimant, said Jens Mesa, president of the palm federation.
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Students at Georgetown University are reportedly set to vote on implementing a fee that would be steered into a reparation fund for descendants of slaves the institution sold to pay off debts.
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A Vatican statement said the purpose of the trip, due to start in the next few days, was to "move forward in the process of reparation, and healing for victims of abuse".
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There are disproportionate negative outcomes for those who are descendants of slaves that can only be explained by the fact that this enslavement happened, reparation didn't happen, and now is the time.
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In El Salvador, the Supreme Court of Justice declared a 1993 amnesty law unconstitutional in 2016 and ordered lawmakers to create a new law that would guarantee justice and reparation for victims.
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The dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder, had a song called "Reparation" that includes lines about how the proceeds of scamming are reparations for slavery.
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"After World War One a lot of Germans felt humiliated due to the Versailles Treaty," Giebel said, referring to the accord signed in 1919 that forced defeated Germany to make massive reparation payments.
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Previous cases the five former laborers had brought in Japan were dismissed on the grounds that their right to reparation was terminated by a 1965 treaty normalizing diplomatic ties between Seoul and Tokyo.
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I started making these specifically about this space and what it would look like to make Reparation Hardware, the store, happen in real life, and what camouflaging would occur—even on this block.
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In addition to the opening musical number, Mr. Che appeared in a pretaped bit in which he handed out "reparation Emmys" to veteran black performers who have been overlooked by the voting academy.
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Call for investigation The rights group calls for reparation for the victims as well as impartial investigations into those who perpetrated the abuses, which it says have not been adequately addressed by Nigerian authorities.
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And in 1925, it was joined by a bit of Prussia that had been annexed as reparation for the atrocities of World War I. Out of these disparate pieces, a new country was forged.
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But the best and most just reparation would be American immigration reform that could open the road to citizenship for the descendants of those Mexicans who suffered the unjust loss of half their territory.
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"If Aung San Suu Kyi is serious about serving the people of Myanmar, she should be standing side-by-side with victims and survivors in the pursuit of justice, truth and reparation," Bequelin added.
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It is that bill, titled the "Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act," and now sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas, that the subcommittee has before it.
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Even more controversially, the deal would have allowed rebels to avoid jail time if they confessed to their crimes and participated in acts of "reparation," including clearing land mines, repairing damaged infrastructure, and helping victims.
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In its ruling last year, the human rights court said that in reparation the state must hold an act of recognition, allow victims to have their original "war council" sentences annulled, and pay financial compensation.
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On Wednesday I will chair a hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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"(There are) deficiencies in basic information and insufficiencies in mitigation, compensation, and reparation measures, meaning we believe that the eventual impacts have not been properly taken care of," Chilean Environmental Minister Marcelo Mena told journalists.
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Negotiating leniency settlements with the comptroller general's office, known as the CGU, would allow companies to bid for future government contracts in return for admission of guilt, reparation of financial damages and payment of fines.
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"We hold the U.S. administration responsible for preservation of Iranian funds, and if they are plundered, we will lodge a complaint with the I.C.J. for reparation," he said, referring to the International Court of Justice.
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Although relatively new to the United States, gay reparation has been debated and legislated around the world for close to two decades and is a logical progression in the maturation of the gay rights movement.
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The problem arises from Bosnia's failure to enact a nation-wide law covering victims of torture, resulting in differing treatment of reparation claims in its two autonomous regions, the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic.
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"We hope the second quarter was transitional and that we're going to have quite a strong third quarter to support reparation efforts as well as future shareholder returns," Luciano Siani told analysts in a conference call.
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J., waits to testify about reparation for the descendants of slaves during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
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Dima Asfour of Palestine's delegation called on Israel to "end the illegal blockade of Gaza, investigate all allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during its military aggressions in Gaza and provide full reparation".
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It is really far away, and thanks to reparation and preservation efforts on the part of the Chilean government — which annexed the island in 1888 — tourists can now only visit 30 days a year, instead of 90.
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"The South Korean Supreme Court decision says such matters as wages were solved by the treaty, but that the right to claim for reparation for psychological damage is outside the realm of the treaty," the official said.
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It was a moment of Journalism with a capital J, when the public demand for an epic reparation left these men (and institutions) diminished, when many of them were finally fired and shamed and pushed into retreat.
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VATICAN CITY – A group of Chilean church sex abuse victims is making its voice heard as the country&aposs Catholic leadership meets with Pope Francis, demanding that the Vatican recognize crimes, cover-ups and the need for reparation.
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Just the same, when Maureen Phelan's guilty conscience kicks in, sending her to confession and devising ways to make reparation for her sins, the words that come out of her mouth are hard as stones, but pure poetry.
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At the same time, gay reparation can serve to familiarize and sensitize the public about the injustices of the past, especially a new generation of L.G.B.T. people in the West who have mainly known freedom in their lifetimes.
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This differs from the slavery reparation proposal, which would pay the great great great grandchildren of enslaved people (not people actually harmed) and payment would be made by people not directly responsible for the terrible sin of slavery.
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He&aposs also promised to make changes to the 2016 peace deal with the FARC, including a legal reform that would bar guerrilla leaders who have committed war crimes from participating in politics until they provide reparation to victims.
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An immediate financial consequence of the Treaty's validation is that a Reparation Commission will be constituted to receive from Germany, as recognition and guaranty of her debt, a first payment of gold bonds, free from taxes of any nature.
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The Army judge in the case has agreed to hear arguments from prosecution and defense lawyers at Guantánamo starting July 9 about his authority to provide reparation for the torture the United States government carried out after the Sept.
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And like that earlier effort to evade substantive questions of racial justice and reparation with anodyne rhetoric, post-racial discourse grew mostly out of a species of magical thinking that soon became conventional wisdom within a white-dominated punditocracy.
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But Japan is a burglar that historically inflicted wars and misfortune and pain of colonial rule on Korea," it said before getting to North Korea&aposs often repeated demand: "Japan should make a sincere apology and reparation for the past crimes.
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But thousands of other war survivors, mainly Muslim Bosniaks, have been hit by hefty fines after their reparation claims were rejected by courts in the autonomous Serb region of post-war Bosnia, and have been unable to obtain legal aid.
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One can see the chief Euro-skeptics — France's Marine Le Pen and Italy's Matteo Salvini — having a field day with that, while Greece and Poland want a piece of German riches for allegedly being short-changed during Germany's war reparation payments.
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Other moves include re-opening an office to help victims&apos relatives — an office closed under Spain&aposs previous conservative government — setting up a new system for reparation payments and turning Franco&aposs current burial place into a museum against fascism.
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The Pope should have insisted long ago that the Vatican get proactive and pour its resources into finding every victim in every corner of the globe and making just reparation, and finding and exposing and harshly punishing every single perpetrator.
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Placing civil rights leaders on these pedestals would be a small, symbolic reparation to the black communities in these Southern cities, towns and campuses for the intimidation, indignity and insult imposed by having racist heroes looming over their daily lives.
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The row was triggered by a Supreme Court ruling that Nippon Steel pay 100 million won ($87,700) to each of the four steel workers who sought compensation and unpaid wages, saying their reparation rights were not terminated by a 1965 treaty.
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The "Atlantic Reconciliation Station"—which is named aptly for the reparation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and what it means to be a Black person on water—is a water bed with drum shakers and a subwoofer underneath, playing an "ohm" chant.
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The United Nations has ordered Bosnia to compensate a woman raped by a soldier during war and to set up a nationwide war crimes reparation scheme, after the first case of sexual violence brought before the U.N. Committee Against Torture.
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In the Weimar Republic hyperinflation was largely the result of reparation: payments imposed on Germany after World War I. In Zimbabwe it was the result of Robert Mugabe's land reform policy and the drop in food production and foreign investment that followed.
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"[Lopez] seized upon Rella's fresh grief and began making exorbitant fraudulent charges with Rella's credit cards that she unknowingly paid off, effectively stripping her of retirement funds, much of which came from Holocaust reparation checks from the German government," Micah writes on the GoFundMe page.
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"The Commission calls on the Brazilian State to implement comprehensive strategies to prevent these acts, fulfill its obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible, as well as to offer protection and comprehensive reparation to all victims," the Washington-based IACHR said in a statement.
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We are not just looking for thank you's or our bodies being exploited in the pages of glossy magazines, we are looking for a type of reparation from these businesses and people that have made billions from the magic, but disenfranchise and erase the magicians.
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One of the first countries to grapple with gay reparation was Spain, which is fitting given the country's reputation — first won during the Inquisition, an institution infamous for burning "sodomites" at the stake — as one of the most hostile to homosexuality in the Western world.
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" The reparation analysis, which could see Poland receive cash compensation from Germany for its losses, was launched the following day, though the head of the Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said last week the "Polish government is preparing itself for a historical counteroffensive.
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When considered together, the gesture to integrate the American and Pan-African flags reads as one of reparation, especially once Clark added a performative dimension by asking 50 African American women to wear the integrated flag as a gele, the traditional headwrap of Nigeria.
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The Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act ought to be the mere beginning of reparation for and reappraisal of Flint, and yet most of us will breathe a sigh of relief simply to see a few corroded pipes ripped out of the ground and replaced.
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"I am writing to ask that those responsible for killing the victims of the Faraba shootings be identified, arrested and brought before a court of law now," the executive secretary of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission, Baba Galleh Jallow, wrote in an open letter to Barrow.
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For if I do not understand it I will not understand what I owe to others or what others owe to me, for what crimes of my nation I am bound to make reparation, for what benefits to my nation I am bound to feel gratitude.
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Ioana Cismas, former consultant to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, said justice was critical following conflicts such as the two-year war in South Sudan that killed thousands of people and displaced millions of others.
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SAO PAULO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Vale SA said on Monday that a Brazilian judge had given the world's No. 1 iron ore producer another 30 days to deposit part of 1.2 billion reais ($355 million) in reparation guarantees related to a dam accident at Samarco Mineração.
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Already, voices are rising out of those ruins, insisting that the Jones Act be abolished altogether, insisting that we want more than debt relief; we want it canceled, not as aid but in reparation — not help to rebuild a colonial society, but support to regenerate our way to sovereignty.
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Speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, three members of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said that Congress should pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, a bill that Michigan Representative John Conyers last introduced in 2015.
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Co-host Michael Che joked in the opening monologue that he was asked to behave "black-ish" at the ceremony, and he made an attempt to push those limits with a sketch in which he handed out "reparation Emmys" to influential Black actors and actresses that haven't gotten their due recognition.
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By helping those people to retain access to the internet and social media, and by weakening the system's repressive institutions through diplomatic démarches and other appropriate measures, the international community can help to protect the victims and to provide for the reparation of damages resulting from the acts of the state responsible.
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I was thinking about Brancusi and ridiculous modernist stuff when I started cycling through the fake products in that video [Reparation Hardware], and how would I translate those things into something that would look both convincing, as if it could perform a function that maybe spoke about something Brancusi's doing but failed miserably.
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Officials had pledged a more proactive approach to restitution in recent years, but the efforts were still shared by museums, the Culture and Foreign ministries and the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation, or CIVS, established in 2100 to examine reparation claims from victims of France's wartime anti-Semitic laws.
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A similar official study and report from museums in the United States, pertaining to the looting of objects from Honduras (and from Central and South America more generally) has not been commissioned yet, but we should recognize the thousands of people heading now toward the US as legitimate claimants seeking reparation and restitution as well.
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"The leaders of these six countries have taken a historic step today, unprecedented in the history of the Americas, creating a crucial milestone in the interests of justice, accountability, non-repetition and reparation to the victims of the Venezuelan dictatorship," said Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States, in a statement.
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Sheila Jackson LeeSheila Jackson LeePatrick backs reparations in unveiling 'Equity Agenda for Black Americans' The US should work to counter India's actions against the people of Kashmir Sheila Jackson Lee tops colleagues in House floor speaking days over past decade MORE (D-Texas) that would establish a commission to study and development reparation proposals.
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We do not think about how the medieval might show us what justice can look like for victims of intoxication-facilitated sexual assault, or how it can teach us strategies by which survivors can seek reparation, or how it can shine harsh floodlights on our own repeated failures to hold perpetrators responsible for their actions.
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As part of that reparation, the company will also bring $252 billion in cash back to the US. Apple also expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US in the aforementioned five year time span, and is also increasing its $1 billion US advanced manufacturing fund it announced last year to $5 billion.
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And as children and their families flee Central American gang violence, violence which is often perpetrated by gangs like MS-13 (which originated in the US and gained power in US prisons) and is rooted in the instability and bloodshed that the US encouraged in the region in the 1980s, Trump feels no similar duty of reconciliation or reparation.
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The world they describe is a world of hypocrisy, where appearance and reality clash constantly, where sex is a source of shame but on everybody's mind, where the cult of virginity — demanded only of women — leads veiled girls to favor sodomy and oral sex to keep their hymen intact or to pay for hymen reparation before getting married.
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Recommendations in the reports to address the problems include a Canadian monitoring office that would have real power, the possibility of ensuring effective access to justice before Canadian institutions, allowing legal actions in Canada by individuals or groups harmed abroad to obtain justice and reparation, and an end to government sponsorship of companies involved in human rights violations.
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"Five years after the forced disappearance of the 43 young students at Ayotzinapa, the Mexican authorities still owe a great outstanding debt to the victims, their families and society in terms of guaranteeing their rights to the truth, justice and reparation for the harm done," executive director of Amnesty International Mexico, Tania Reneaum Panszi, said this week in a statement.
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At a minimum, as Coates has advocated, Congress should pass Congressman John ConyersJohn James ConyersEXCLUSIVE: Trump on reparations: 'I don't see it happening' McConnell: Reparations aren't 'a good idea' This week: Democrats move funding bills as caps deal remains elusive MORE Jr.'s (D-Mich.) bill H.R. 85033 (introduced with each Congress since 1989), establishing the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.), said while speaking at the National Action Network event earlier this year that they would sign a bill forming a reparation study commission into law if they become president. Sen.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 85033 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.), said while speaking at the National Action Network event earlier this year that they would sign a bill forming a reparation study commission into law if they become president. Sen.
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If other post-disaster recovery efforts are any indication, then Puerto Rico will go through three phases of recovery: Basic needs: water, shelter, energy, and sanitation Engagement of resources for rebuilding: large amounts of money, time, and energy to restore services and resume job and school attendance Reparation of emotional and mental anguish: healthy and sustainable re-inhabitation of neighborhoods and homes with attention to both physical infrastructure and emotional trauma At the same time, Puerto Rico also has many unique characteristics that can amplify current challenges.
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