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women and survivors
Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.
Fifteen years later in 1776, the chevalier de Tromelin ( from whom the island takes its name ), captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors — seven women and an eight-month-old child.
* Prevention of violence against women, care for survivors of violence and other actions to eliminate traditional harmful practices
They took as captives 109 survivors, including women and children, and forced them on a months-long trek to Quebec.
The IRC ’ s gender-based violence programs aim to meet the safety, health, psychosocial and justice needs of women and girls who are survivors of or vulnerable to gender-based violence.
IRC programs implement and support social work services to help individual survivors of gender-based violence, economic empowerment activities to support survivors of violence and women and girls at-risk of violence, community education and mobilization projects around gender-based violence, training and capacity-building for NGOs and governments, coordination of humanitarian services, and advocacy efforts to advance laws preventing violence against women and the enforcement of policies ensuring survivors ’ access to care and legal justice.
The few survivors who remain above ground must forage and fight for food, clean water, clothes, weapons, ammunition and women.
Of these necessities, women are the rarest ; most survivors are male because while the males were off fighting in the wars, their enemies bombed and destroyed their homes.
In the same year, the Governor General also travelled to Nova Scotia to survey the damage caused by the Halifax Explosion on 6 December ; there he met with survivors and addressed the women of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
Yet this gift is threatened by the only other survivors the women encounter, the people of the Ark, who believe that except for the Bible, all books are evil.
Other survivors testified how she killed women by stomping on them with her steel-studded jackboots, earning her the nickname " The Stomping Mare ".
The FSIO is charged with ensuring the reliability of this social insurance system within its areas of responsibility: old age and survivors ’ insurance ( AHV ), invalidity insurance ( IV ), supplementary benefits, occupational pension funds, compensation for loss of earnings for people on national service and women on maternity leave, and family allowances in the agricultural sector.
Only five women survived their first winter in America, and one of the five survivors, Katherine Carver, died in May, her husband John having died of sunstroke a month earlier.
* April 10 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435, a chartered Vickers Vanguard 952 carrying mostly women who are members of the Axbridge Ladies Guild of Somerset, England, crashes into a snowy, forested hillside near Hochwald, Switzerland, and somersaults, killing 108 of the 145 people on board and injuring all but one of the 37 survivors.
165 survivors were left on a flat sandy island of Peros Banhos before coconut trees were there ; among them were two women and five Catholic priests.
Most manage to climb out of the snow, but some are unable to escape ; eight of the remaining survivors are smothered by the snow or freeze to death, including Antonio, Liliana and Juan ; Liliana was the final of the five women aboard to die.
After his father, Eothlir, was killed by Morathi's general and the loyalists routed, Alith led the survivors back to his family's castle, only to find Malekith had attacked it in his absence: Dozens of the elderly, women, and children had been slaughtered without mercy.
) The women-only policies have caused controversy on some campuses ; activists argued that male allies and sexual assault survivors should be allowed to march in support of women.
In 2011, V-Day and the Fondation Panzi ( DRC ), with support from UNICEF, opened the City of Joy, a new community for women survivors of gender violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ).
27, 000 French soldiers besieged the city for two months, firing 16, 000 shells into the walled city, leaving only 300 survivors, most of them women and children.

women and included
Violations of the law against hubris included what would today be termed assault and battery ; sexual crimes ranging from forcible rape of women or children to consensual but improper activities ; or the theft of public or sacred property.
The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".
With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.
Tsangyang Gyatso enjoyed a lifestyle that included drinking, the company of women, and writing love songs.
For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".
For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.
Other changes included restoration of the death penalty, reductions in the powers of the legislature, and denial of citizenship and therefore the right to vote to women.
Key legislative actions included declaration of the Vichy laws and acts as unconstitutional and therefore illegal, re-establishment of republican legality throughout metropolitan France, election of replacement local governments that had been suppressed by the Vichy regime, voting for women, and implementation of labour laws.
Violations of the law against hubris included what might today be termed assault and battery ; sexual crimes ranging from rape of women or children to consensual but improper activity, in particular anal sex with a free man or with an unconsenting and / or under-aged boy ; or the theft of public or sacred property.
This union did not include Chinese, and partially included black people and women.
Suppose that a biased sample of 100 patients included 20 men and 80 women.
This would adjust any estimates to achieve the same expected value as a sample that included exactly 50 men and 50 women, unless men and women differed in their likelihood of taking part in the survey.
In Spain, Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire, sodomy between women was included in acts considered unnatural and punishable by burning to death, although few instances are recorded of this taking place.
Whether the relationship included any genital component was not a matter for public discourse, but women could form strong and exclusive bonds with each other and still be considered virtuous, innocent, and chaste ; a similar relationship with a man would have destroyed a woman's reputation.
These included promoting the status of women, improving popular literacy, doubling the school population, providing universal housing, abolishing unemployment and inflation, increasing health care access, and dramatically raising life expectancy.
In 1971, she was included in a compilation of talks by prominent women, But the Women Rose, Vol. 2: Voices of Women in American History.
As the fledgling Athens ( and probably other continental Greek cities ) was under tribute to Crete, it can be assumed that such tribute included young men and women for sacrifice.
This included ensuring that the men and women who lived there were to stay in separate convents, and that they were to hold the houses under a title of common property.
Religious developments included relaxation on prohibitions against teaching women Torah, and the rise of women's prayer groups in France and Germany.
His transforming social and educational reforms included: adopting the solar calendar, requiring Western dress in parts of Kabul and elsewhere, discouraging the veiling and seclusion of women, abolishing slavery and forced labor, introducing secular education ( for girls as well as boys ); adult education classes and educating nomads.
Other factors that contributed to a slowdown in population growth included urbanization, later marriage ages for both men and women, higher education levels, a greater number of women in the labor force, and better health standards.
In the late 1980s, their activities included distribution of free birth control devices and information, classes for women on family planning methods, and the granting of special subsidies and privileges ( such as low-interest housing loans ) to parents who agreed to undergo sterilization.
Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women.

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