According to Amnesty, in certain societies women who have not had the procedure are regarded as too unclean to handle food and water, and there is a belief that a woman's genitals might continue to grow without FGM, until they dangle between her legs.

According to Amnesty International, the aftermath of the war resulted in an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

According to Amnesty International, more than 13 million people, over half the population of the country, suffered from malnutrition in the DPRK in 2003.

According to Amnesty International, the number of kidnappings has decreased in recent years but the human rights organization estimates that FARC and ELN guerrillas continue to be behind hundreds of cases.

According to Amnesty International, both civilian women and female combatants have been sexually exploited or victimized by all of the different parties involved in the Colombian armed conflict.

According to the CIIR report, Amnesty International and Americas Watch stated that there is no evidence that the use of torture was sanctioned by the Nicaraguan authorities, although prisoners reported the use of conditions of detention and interrogation techniques that could be described as psychological torture.

According to Amnesty International, most of these women are trafficked from Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine.

According to Amnesty International, the presence of peacekeepers in Kosovo led to an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

According to Amnesty International, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong on 22 July 1999 and launched a massive propaganda campaign.

According to an Amnesty International report, lynchings of Haitians and Dominicans accused of various crimes, ranging from theft to murder, have continued to occur as late as 2006.

According to Amnesty International, " the widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations committed during the government of former head of state Alberto Fujimori ( 1990 – 2000 ) in Peru constitute crimes against humanity under international law.

" According to Amnesty International, as of February 2005, more than 370 young women and girls have been murdered in the cities of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua.

According to Amnesty International, " In, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on the “ cotton field ” ( Campo Algodonero ) case that Mexico was guilty of discrimination and of failing to protect three young women murdered in 2001 in Ciudad Juárez or to ensure an effective investigation into their abduction and murder.

According to Amnesty International and the UN, many countries in the world routinely torture people.

According to Amnesty International, in the year 2003 " there were severe restrictions on freedom of the press, and political parties were unable to function.

According to a BBC Arena documentary narrated by Dawn French it was Wax's role as backstage interviewer at Amnesty International's 1987 benefit show The Secret Policeman's Third Ball that eventually boosted her career to a higher level.

According to accusations by Amnesty International, Zena Mahlangu, a high school student, disappeared from her school in October 2002.

According to Amnesty International, 30, 000 trade unionists were detained, most held under preventive detention laws.

According to Amnesty International, the Syrian military bombed the old city center from the air to facilitate the entry of infantry and tanks through the narrow streets ; buildings were demolished by tanks during the first four days of fighting.

According to the National Commission for the Status of Women ( NCSW ) and Amnesty International in Asia and the Pacific, 88 % of the female prisoners are in jail as a direct consequence of the Hudood Ordinance on adultery ( including both those awaiting trial and those convicted ).

According to Amnesty International, death sentences from 1959-87 numbered 237 of which all but 21 were actually carried out.

According to Amnesty International there is discrimination, racism, and murders of members of ethnic minorities.

According to Amnesty International, Muhammad Haydar Zammar is a victim of the US-led renditions programme who was convicted in February 2007 after an unfair trial before the Syrian Supreme State Security Court.

According to the album insert a portion of the proceeds from this album will go to Amnesty International and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

According to Bonneville International's website, their values reflect an understanding that " families are the basic unit of society ... and that strong families build strong communities.

According to the News International's intelligence unit, Chisti was under the impression that since Rahman had not been promoted, he would accept this invitation ; especially when he was promised that after the design worked out successfully, he would not only be promoted but would also become one of the pillars of the new regime.

According to Strabo, this site was first called Sigeia ; around 306 BC Antigonus refounded the city as the much-expanded Antigonia Troas by settling the people of five other towns in Sigeia, including the once influential city of Neandria.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Reactions by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term " affinity " by the term " free energy " in much of the English-speaking world.

According to an influential hypothesis put forward by W. D.

According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work ( 19th edition ), the news media play an influential role in the general public's perception of cults.

According to Gould the most influential political books he read were C. Wright Mills ' The Power Elite and the political writings of Noam Chomsky.

According to the critic Terry Teachout, they are " the two most influential figures in the early history of jazz " and " the twin lines of descent from which most of today's jazz can be traced.

According to historian David Stevenson it was also influential to Freemasonry as it was emerging in Scotland.

According to Foster, Blake was once the leader of an influential group of political activists opposed to the Federation's Earth Administration.

According to a 1999 Fortune survey, lawmakers and congressional staffers considered NRA the most influential lobbying group.

According to Georgian historians, the Cimmerians played an influential role in the development of both the Colchian and Iberian cultures.

According to the New York Times, many members of the Karzai family have mixed their personal interests with that of the state, and become hugely influential and wealthy by murky means.

According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index, Cato is the 6th most influential US based think tank, ranking 3rd in Economic Policy and 2nd in Social Policy.

According to the Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached William Marshal, one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, he consulted with Walter and discussed whom to support as the next king.

According to one scholar, " Eliade may have been the most popular and influential contemporary historian of religion ", but " many, if not most, specialists in anthropology, sociology, and even history of religions have either ignored or quickly dismissed " Eliade's works.

According to allmovie, it is " one of the most influential movies of the 1980s ", and cast " a wide shadow over the new generation of independent American filmmakers to come.

According to Thomas Trautman's account, " James Mill's highly influential History of British India ( 1817 )-most particularly the long essay ' Of the Hindus ' comprising ten chapters – is the single most important source of British Indophobia and hostility to Orientalism ".

" According to renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, it was Rand's work that " brought architecture into the public's focus for the first time ," and he believes that The Fountainhead was not only influential among 20th century architects, it " was one, first, front and center in the life of every architect who was a modern architect.

According to some sources, the influential Rabbi Moses Sofer ( the Chasam Sofer ), who was born in Frankfurt, celebrated Purim Vintz every year, even when he served as a rabbi in Pressburg.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term “ affinity ” by the term “ free energy ” in much of the English-speaking world.

According to art historian Paul Staiti, Copley was the greatest and most influential painter in colonial America, producing about 350 works of art.

According to Steven Carl Tracy, Bradford's works were influential in broadly popularizing the John Henry legend beyond railroad and mining communities and outside of African American oral histories.

According to historian Barbara Welter, the author of the influential essay on this topic, " The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820 – 1860 ", True Women were to hold the four cardinal virtues:

According to an article on the GameSpot website, Dini is " widely regarded as the godfather of the soccer game genre ", having created such influential titles as Kick Off ( 1989 ), Player Manager ( 1990 ), Dino Dini's Goal ( 1993 ), and Dino Dini's Football ( 1994 ).

According to Max Planck, who wrote an influential textbook on thermodynamics, and many other authors, this empirical principle shows that we can define the " temperature function " central to our everyday conception of heat.