We're honest, hardworking people. It's you who use the people as pawns.

To permit them to be used as pawns in warfare, whether as targets or perpetrators, is to cast a shadow on the future.

The international community should realize the immutable fact that the countries of Asia have ceased to be pawns on someone else apos s chessboard.

Children are paying heavy tolls for causes they know nothing about and are made pawns in dangerous struggles for political power and control of resources with no regard for their well being.

The international community must rouse itself from its comfortable inertia and stop regarding it as inevitable that refugees should be used as pawns in prolonged conflicts and have their basic rights and their dignity violated.

When conditions become excessively dangerous, when no action is taken to punish perpetrators of violence against staff, when humanitarian or human rights actions become pawns of war, the Secretary General may have no option but to withdraw United Nations staff.

What if human consciousness isn't the end all and be all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's eye view.

Unwilling victims and pawns of armed conflict, civilians, all civilians refugees and the repatriated, children, boys and girls, women and men, young and not so young are entitled to our protection the protection of our States, our peoples and the subregional, regional and international organizations.

Why is it that schools, which should be recognized as safe havens, have become instruments of war, and schoolchildren have become pawns in extremists strategies? And why have such attacks been treated so casually the February abduction in South Sudan elicited barely any international comment when they in fact constitute crimes against humanity.

He rejected recent allegations that countries affected by the protracted armed conflict used the refugees as pawns, and stressed that it was lack of political will to address the root causes of displacement that had led to the prolongation of the armed conflict and the continued occupation of parts of his country.

But nostalgia has led both states to misinterpret the challenges they now face, whether by linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein s Iraq, or Hezbollah to Iran and Syria. This linkage does exist in the case of Hezbollah, but the networked actors have their own social roots and are not simply pawns used by regional powers.

Roughly 54 million in IDB loans for water infrastructure in Haiti, home to literally the world s worst water, offered a proven path to preventing deadly water borne diseases. Designed to assist in fulfilling the right to water in the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere, these loans and the lives they could have saved instead have become pawns in a deliberate political power play.

It is to be hoped that Ukraine s Russian speaking citizens, having witnessed the economic despair and sometimes the bloodshed caused by the Kremlin s manufactured pro autonomy movements, will realize that they are being turned into Putin s pawns. The test for Viktor Yushchenko and his Orange revolutionaries, as it was for Lithuania s democrats in 1990 91, is to show that democracy does not mean that the majority suppresses any minority.