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Congress enacted a series of laws – sometimes over President Gerald Ford’s veto – prohibiting the US from offering aid to governments that violated internationally recognized human rights, even if those governments were firm Cold War allies.

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The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.

We have violated yet another taboo in our own lives, and this is a bonus taboo.

And so in a gathering where we're focused on women, while it is so critical that we invest in our girls and we even the playing field and we find ways to honor them, we have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.

The bank violated its own sustainability policies in the process, but it earned around 130 million dollars.

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