• The National Vigilance Association (NVA) was a British society established in 1885. Its goal was to combat prostitution, particularly forced prostitution...
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    from them. The National Vigilance Association was created at a meeting located in London in 1885. This is an example of a past association that took on...
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  • Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003, the Parliament enacted...
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  • A vigilance committee is a group of private citizens who take it upon themselves to administer law and order or exercise power in places where they consider...
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    number of nations, such as the Freundinnenverein in Germany, the National Vigilance Association in Britain and Vaksamhet in Sweden. In 1884, the Anglo-Egyptian...
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  • In modern psychology, vigilance, also termed sustained concentration, is defined as the ability to maintain concentrated attention over prolonged periods...
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    women's movement and became well known as an active member of the National Vigilance Association.[citation needed] In April 1890, Bear-Crawford rejoined her...
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    number of nations, such as the Freundinnenverein in Germany, the National Vigilance Association in Britain and Vaksamhet in Sweden. Moral panic over the "traffic...
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  • The Irish Vigilance Association was a society established in Ireland in 1911 under the auspices of the Dominicans. Its objective was to prevent the spread...
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    author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council of Public Morals...
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    different stages of life were greatly criticised, notably by the National Vigilance Association, whose offices were opposite the building.: 49  Their view that...
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    literature in this country". Vizetelly was brought to court by the National Vigilance Association (NVA) for "obscene libel". The charge arose from the publication...
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    (2015), "Vigilance Committees", The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Rutgers University Historical records of Philadelphia Vigilant Association Archived...
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  • an international sister-association to the British National Vigilance Association, who had been questioned by the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene...
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  • being directly affected. However, the NCC's "witness to the need for vigilance in brokering peace extends to our concern for all people in the region...
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    operators exploit loopholes to gain an edge, necessitating continuous vigilance and regulatory updates. Market operators in India often use the "pump...
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  • advice of John D. Rockefeller Jr., two social hygiene associations, the American Vigilance Association and the American Federation for Sex Hygiene, dedicated...
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  • August of that year, however, the Society was absorbed into the National Vigilance Association.[citation needed] Pollock 1977, p. 61 Brown 2006, p. 346 Hochschild...
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    Emily Janes (category National Council of Women of Great Britain members)
    country, giving speeches on its behalf, and also on behalf of the National Vigilance Association. She was motivated in these efforts by a strong religious belief...
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  • Terre, Vizetelly & Co. was prosecuted for obscenity by the National Vigilance Association, causing him to re-edit, rewrite, and further bowdlerize the...
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  • to the Act outlaws "gross indecency" between males. August – National Vigilance Association established "for the enforcement and improvement of the laws...
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  • organizations, such as the Boston Watch and Ward Society, the National Vigilance Association, and the Cincinnati Citizens for Community Values. The final...
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    sword and a plumed helmet in the Roman style. His pedestal says, "Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty,” which comes from Thomas Jefferson, around which...
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  • Poorhouse and Asylum. She carried out investigations for the National Vigilance Association between 1910 and 1915. In September 1915, she was employed as...
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    The OVRA, unoffically known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism (Italian: Opera Vigilanza Repressione Antifascismo), was...
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  • English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted in London by the National Vigilance Association and fined for obscene libel for his English translation of Zola's...
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    to America." Social Purity Alliance Founding member of the National Vigilance Association which focused enforcement of the Criminal Law Amendment Act...
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  • (1921) Registry offices : a paper read at the Conference of the National Vigilance Association (1886) Social scares (1888) "At the Circulating Library Author...
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  • number of nations, such as the Freundinnenverein in Germany, the National Vigilance Association in Britain and Vaksamhet in Sweden. Moral panic over the "traffic...
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    Commission on Opium in India from 1893–95, Treasurer of the National Vigilance Association in the 1900s, a Justice of the Peace from 1881, and was for...
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