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New Guinea, Nigeria, and Violations of Human Rights

won the national election (Jaffrey 36). But Muslin military forces from the North called for an annulment of the democratic proce...

Kosovo Crisis: Military Intervention

world is robbing them of their right to self-determination" (Anonymous, 1999, p. 20). Historically the Serbs have always held Kos...

Child Labour

the last century (Haralambos and Holborn, 2004). Prior to this it was common for children to work, even seen as beneficial to thei...

Are Democratic Priniciples Universally Applicable?

by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democratic principle...

Better to Live in the US than Mexico

Constitution. There are also financial advantages to living in the US. In American culture, owning your own home or business is ...

The Relationship Of Sharia Law And Islam

in the Islamic world is to cultivate and perpetuate a sense of unity where jurisprudence is concerned, otherwise known as the ongo...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

Article on Human Rights

rights, as such, propose an unacceptably anthropocentric view of the world, which sets human beings at the top of a pyramid wherea...

Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty

light of current interpretations of the Act. The Lord Chancellor (2004), speaking in 2001, sees the Act as a highly positive addit...

Overview of Government Surveillance

this legislation, although it increasing the ability of surveillance in some situation, such as when the Office of Fair Trading (O...

Ethical Standards and Global Business

executives from Silicon Valley tech corporations. After bemoaning the latest wave of corporate scandals, these executives discusse...

Human Rights Act of 1998 and Property Law

European Court of Human Rights; Lithgow v UK, A102, 8 EHRR 329 involved property. This case was a result of a compulsory purchase...

Welfare State in Great Britain and Changes

welfare are in the minority and it is viewed as being an extremely negative situation. In the United Kingdom, people live on gover...

Sudan and Human Rights

such as the Nuer and the Dinka" (Ryle, 2002). These people were often subject to such things as looting and slave raiding which ca...

Importance of Controlling Population

on a global scale. Consequently, we must act both locally and globally to counteract these impacts. One of the most logical mech...

State Systems and the Effects of Globalization

effortlessly leap once imposing territorial and cultural borders which can have major consequences on state "sovereignty, prosperi...

Ottoman Empire Roots of the Modern Turkish State

modern republic of Turkey, this region was part of the vast, cosmopolitan, pan-Islamic state known as the Ottoman Empire. In orde...

Latin America, Human Rights, and the Catholic Church

In eleven pages this research paper discusses Latin American Human rights, and the liberation theology of the Catholic Church. Fi...

Post 1870 Europe II

In four pages four brief essays regarding Europe since 1870 include issues of human rights, Fascism of Benito Mussolini, hypotheti...

Human Rights Organizations and Colombia

In forty five pages this research study discusses Colombia in terms of the work of human rights organizations and its negative imp...

Political and Economic Perspectives on Human Rights

In eight pages this research essay considers the UN's economic and political considerations regarding international human rights p...

Human Rights, Sovereignty of States, and the United Nations

1995). And now that the Cold War is over, the U.N. seems more rudderless than ever - charged with requests for peace-keeping f...

Problems and Solutions for Iraq's Human Rights Situation

In ten pages this research essay discusses Iraq's human rights problems since the war in the Gulf in a consideration of policies a...

Human Rights and Homelessness

of being deprived of what they are "owed." As a result, they demand that there elected officials take their concerns into very se...

Karl Marx, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes

of society. However, Hobbes is also making the assumption that human beings will able to ascertain what is the correct way of doin...

Birth Control in China and the United States

In five pages the history of birth control with emphasis on China and the U.S. is considered in terms of government control, resis...

Baseball's Desegregation

In eight pages this paper examines the 1940s' desegregation of baseball with topics such as human rights and economic consideratio...

American History and the Place of Anne Hutchinson

to be worse than eccentric. The early Puritans, as they called themselves, believed that the church should purge itself of any ri...

UK's Human Rights Act and its Impact

In ten pages this paper analyzes a legal opinion delivered to the Joint Committee of Parliament regarding the Human Rights Act and...

Themes of Empathy in Shelley, Conrad, and Borowski

This paper examines various human-rights themes seen in Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' and Borowski's 'Th...