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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...

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...

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...

'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 ...

'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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Democracy Policy Claim

In six pages this paper examines the JKLF's democracy policy claim as it involves equal opportunities, human rights, welfare for t...

Sharia Law v. International Human Rights Law

In five pages this paper examines the inherent conflict between Sharia law and Human Rights laws particularly as they involve the ...

Twenty First Century and Humanity

In 8 pages this paper discusses the new millennium in a consideration of humanity that includes an examination of culture, art, en...

Basic Human Right of Health Care

early part of the 20th century and all the years before, health care absolutely lay in the realm only of the privileged, those who...

Internet Gambling from a Liberal Marxist Viewpoint

In five pages this paper considers Internet gambling from a Marxist perspective which involves the concept of greed and what he be...

Euthanasia Controversy

1997, p. 4) in any persons life. To be sure, this is one of the "most compelling arguments" (Kowalski, 1996, p. 45) that supports...

Has Any Progress Been Made Regarding Violence Against Women Around the Globe?

reforms. History reflects patriarchy According to feminist scholar Merlin Stone (1976) for thousands of...

Colonialism and 'Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith

In six pages this paper examines colonialism as portrayed by Smith in his classic economics text. There are no other sources list...

Sovereignty and Human Rights

In five pages the issue of sovereignty is examined in terms of when intervention by external forces is acceptable, which becomes n...

United Church Of Canada And Christology

to defer to clergy as people in other churches (Stewart, 1983). These attitudes would be expected if one considers the three tradi...

Blood Diamonds

worldwide," but today, "conflict diamonds account for only 0.2 percent" of the diamond trade ("Blood Diamonds...Curse"). The Wor...