In 1987, a report was published by the UK based NGO Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with Liberation theology.

" The CIIR report refers to estimates made by the NGO Americas Watch which count the number of non-battle related deaths and disappearances for which the government was responsible up to the year 1986 as " close to 300 ".

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.

The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.

Progressio ( formerly CIIR ),

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

* Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR )

In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

He was critical of what he feels is President Kennedy's tendency to be too conciliatory.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

The girl was in critical condition with burns over 90 per cent of her body.

The third time was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical eyes and tongues of judges.

simplicity was critical.

B. Rhine, who was critical in the early foundations of parapsychology as a laboratory science, was committed to finding scientific evidence for the spiritual existence of humans.

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

In addition to his scientific work, he was a social activist who was critical of what he considered to be an unjust social and economic system in 19th-century Britain.

He was acknowledged for his critical role in the stability of the euro despite the economic crises that prevailed in many economic powers.

* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.

* Scullard: A critical view of Agrippina, suggesting she was ambitious and unscrupulous and a depraved sexual psychopath.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.

One critical requirement was that church-related schools had to sever their religious connections to get his money.

Aalto's furniture was exhibited in London in 1935, to great critical acclaim, and to cope with the consumer demand Aalto, together with his wife Aino, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded the company Artek that same year.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

Similarly, Eritrea and Yemen had a border conflict between 1996 to 1998 over the Hanish Islands and the maritime border, which was resolved in 2000 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

The Second World War effectively ended the International Agricultural Institute, though it was only officially dissolved by resolution of its Permanent Committee on February 27, 1948.

Soon after, Geddy began using the Fender Jazz Bass which was used on Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals and the supporting tours.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

Often enormously complicated matters, ICJ cases ( of which there have been less than 150 since the court was created from the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1945 ) can stretch on for years and generally involve thousands of pages of pleadings, evidence, and the world's leading specialist public international lawyers.

Jarmusch's final year university project was completed in 1980 as Permanent Vacation, his first feature film.

At the proposal of the Permanent Delegations of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey, and as approved by its Executive Board and General Conference in conformity with its mission of “ constructing in the minds of men the defences of peace ”, UNESCO was associated with the celebration, in 2007, of the eight hundredth anniversary of Rumi's birth.

Permanent settlement started by 1882, mainly by workers in coconut plantations and fishermen but, due to an extreme drought which killed off tens of thousands of Coconut Palms --- about 75 % of Christmas Island's population of this plant --- the island was once again abandoned between 1905 and 1912.

The Permanent Court of International Justice was provided for by the Covenant, but not established by it.

The matter was referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which ruled that, when the Council made a unanimous decision, it must be accepted.

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

The Permanent Court of International Justice, often called the World Court, was an international court attached to the League of Nations.

The idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice was accepted in Geneva on December 13, 1920.

Between 21 August and 7 October 1944 the Dumbarton Oaks Conference was held, which among other things created an international court attached to the United Nations, to succeed the Permanent Court of International Justice.

The Permanent Commission denies that it received any money which it claims was instead used by others for translating and distributing their monthly reports in other nations.

A direct result of these meetings was the establishment of the world's first organisation for the settlement of international disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ).

After the establishment of the League of Nations, The Hague became the seat of the Permanent Court of International Justice, which was replaced by the UN's International Court of Justice after the Second World War.

The WEU was led by a Council of Ministers, assisted by a Permanent Representatives Council on ambassadorial level.

Permanent Scandinavian settlement occurred before 911, when an agreement was reached between Rollo, one of the Viking leaders, and King Charles the Simple of France, surrendering the county of Rouen to Rollo.

Ngouabi was re-elected to his post as Chairman of the PCT Central Committee on December 30, 1974 ; he was additionally elected as Permanent Secretary of the PCT.