Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Donors are most interested in things that have a human dimension to them," Reardon says...
...seclusion. She was a new mother...The officers couldn't or didn't save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book The World Split Open...
...ones you love cannot be touched and holidays are all seen from behind bars. Prison is a hostile and degrading world where any assertion of self, any spark of resistance--even asking too many questions--may be disciplined by weeks of isolation in the "hole" (solitary confinement) with no human contact...
Though the United States loudly proclaims its morality and humaneness, it lags behind other countries in its treatment of prisoners. Women in the U.S. are locked up in overcrowded prisons and many are guarded by men. Sexual abuse of prisoners by guards is common. Many prisons violate international standards requiring adequate health care free of charge. In "Not Part of My Sentence: Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody" (March, 1999), Amnesty International reports that last year a woman in an American prison was neglected by guards until she bled to death...
...withdraw its troops until the bombing had ceased, in essence asking NATO to make the first move. In addition, Yugoslavia would allow only civilian observers, not military forces, into Kosovo. These conditions are unacceptable. The expulsion of the Albanians demonstrates that Milosevic cannot be relied on to obey international human rights conventions, so his compliance with international agreements may be unsteady. If the bombing stopped first, Yugoslavia could easily delay the withdrawal of troops long enough to continue its ethnic cleansing, and it would be politically near-impossible to restart the strikes with this delay as the only justification. Furthermore...