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Essays 331 - 360

Does the Human Rights Act Protect Civil Liberties?

in law. Article 8 may be seen as balanced with Article 29 which is the right of expression. Article 8 states that "Everyone has th...

Human Rights as a Cultural or Universal Concept

which even weak legislation can be supportive of human rights in the way that it is implemented and interpreted within the courts....

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...

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...

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 ...

Philippines and Human Rights

is more important than individual rights" (Bruun 78). As a result, human rights violations occurred, but citizens often turned a ...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

Liability and Employers

a partnership, in that it is recognised as being a separate entity in its own right from those who are involved in it, such as dir...

U.S., Vietnam, and Human Rights

In five pages this paper considers how human rights have been violated in both countries in a discussion of issue differences. Fi...

Justice, Human Rights, and I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala

In ten pages this paper considers justice and human rights concepts within the harrowing context of Roberta Menchu's testimony. T...

Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter on Central America

Info, 1988). The straw that broke the camels back in terms of Carters flexibility was the murder of four churchwomen in El Salvad...

Women's Rights and Latin America

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

US Economy and the Impact of China Trade Relations

that can support telecommunications and ground transportation. "The United States should help move China in the direction of grea...

Overview of Family Law Issues

aimed at child protection either form physical or metal abuse or to protect their morals as well as to protect the freedom and rig...

Abortion Law in the UK and the Human Rights Act Impact

case of the Case of Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) with reference to the Abortion Act 1967 (Lexis, 2...

Population Control in China

policy," with the goal of leveling out the population at 1.2 billion by the year 2000, and then bringing it down to 700 million ov...

Human Rights and Latin American Indigenous Women

roles between the male and female in the more ancient components of indigenous society, these differences were justifiable in term...

Northern Ireland's Human Rights Offenses

In twenty pages this paper considers Northern Ireland and its historical pattern of abusing human rights in a discussion of releva...

'Ordinary Man' Nelson Mendela

of 16, he was sent outside of the village for an education. By 1944, with law degree in hand, he had dropped many of his connecti...

'Mandate of Heaven,' Human Rights, and Economics in Modern China

In seven pages this report examines the 'Mandate of Heaven,' human rights issues, domestic and foreign economic policies as they p...

Mexico and Corruption

changed. Mexicos history, again, is rather dismal in terms of corruption and much work is yet to be done. II. Police Corruption...

Argument: World Trade is the Most Important Factor in a Nation's International Development

This 5 page report argues that in development, international trade plays the main role in assuring that a country will be able to ...

The League of Nations' Failure

The most damaging of these factors were its lack of a complete membership of world powers, its inability to unify its members in i...

Human Rights Organizations and Globalization

In eight pages this paper examines how globalization has increased the power wielded by human rights organizations. Eight sources...

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...

South America and Terrorism

In seven pages this research paper examines human and civil rights oppression and terrorism in South America in a consideration of...

Public Policy's Role in Amnesty International

public policy decision by AI is the fact that on October 14, 1998 a youthful offender, below the age of 18, was put to death in th...

Economic Sanctions and How They Are Used

In five pages this paper discusses how economic sanctions can be applied in international situations involving nuclear proliferati...

Four Amnesty International Organization Cases

In a paper consisting of 9 pages four human rights cases in which Amnesty International is involved with are examined and there is...