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Essays 331 - 360

British Press and Who Controls It

is questionable as to whether is should be to persuade. There are many well known instances of the newspapers being wring, for exa...

Women's Perspectives on Africa's Postcolonial State and Nationalism

efforts were not in vain, inasmuch as they "helped awaken others that followed her and forced them to mount offensives against the...

2 Countries and Human Rights

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

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...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Chinas and Issues Involving Human Rights

towards the Soviet Union and its leaders. The Chinese Revolution of 1911 would set in motion a series of political and...

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...

Chechnya and Human Rights

2004). Their return was due to the fact that Stalin had died in 1953 and the "deportees were repatriated in 1956, and the republic...

Modern State and Human Rights

The rationale is that people who fear the repercussions of breaking the law tend to be more obedient. Authority then becomes legi...

Ethical Standards and Global Business

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

Book Review of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights

the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governmen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Children, Guantanamo Bay and the Violation of Human Rights

As seems to be the case with most, if not all, of the other prisoners in Gautanamo Bay the children have not...

Abuses of Human Rights, Imperialism, and Terrorism

took place due to the better opportunities for Muslims in the Ottoman bureaucracy (John, 2004). This may have been the first hist...

East Timor Dili Court and Failed Justice

the international community to see the perpetrators of the atrocity brought to justice. The trials that have taken place have re...

International Law and Privacy

real sanctions that country can suffer for breaching an international law. It can be argued that the reason for the agreement is...

Iraq and Violations of Human Rights

had fewer political difficulties with her other neighbors. The country is mostly agricultural, with about half the available land ...

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number from a Political Perspective

belly dancer with no political experience, as Vice President (Stevenson, 1998). It quickly became obvious that the aging and aili...

Romantic Era Human Rights and Religious Sentiments Represented by Mary Wollstonecraft

thousand years, which was directly related to the need for a shared responsibility for survival. This began to change, however, w...

U.S. and Violations of Human Rights

did this occur? The men were arrested for misdemeanors, one of which was a charge for drinking in public (Weill-Greenberg, 2005). ...

European Union and Turkey's Barriers to Full Membership

this does not mean accession is close, only that it is due to be discussed. It is highly likely that a new course of action will ...

Universal Human Rights and the Law of Islam

religions, and political systems. Numerous world entities have agreed that all humans were entitled to certain basic rights and f...

Judaism and Human Rights Advocate Abraham Joshua Heschel

the value of religious discourse allowed an "intelligent passion" (Novak, 1998, pp. 63-67) where fear and trepidation once lurked....

Dissemination of Personal Information, Articles Eight and Ten of the Human Rights Act, the Media, and Privacy

the newspapers are often looked down on. Not because they have broken a law but due tot he way in which they are breaking what is ...