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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Social cleansing

Social cleansing

Incidence

Colombian death squads target and kill hundreds of gay men and transvestites in an activity called 'social cleansing'.

Broader

Persecution
Presentable
Social discrimination
Unpresentable

Narrower

Gypsy persecution
Excellent
Religious genocide
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Uncontrolled migration
Presentable
Massacres
Presentable
Undocumented violations of human rights
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Vigilantism
Presentable
Religious terrorism
Presentable

Related

Political purges
Presentable
Ethnic cleansing
Presentable
Identity cleansing
Yet to rate

Value

Unsociable
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Society » Social
  • Amenities » Cleaning
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J4375
    DOCID
    12043750
    D7NID
    134415
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024
    Official link
    https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/social-cleansing