1. Human Rights
It is a political process that has started its third wave in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... This paper provides a comparative analysis of the democratic performance of three countries- Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland- of the post-communist region of Central Eastern Europe, to lay the ground for further research into why their performance scores where it does on our scale. ... Overall, the Czech Republic scored on the comparative democratization scale in the middle compared to the two other countries...
After 9/11, these sub groups consisted of Muslims, South Asians, and Middle Eastern men. ... Mathur (2006) cited many detainees that were wrongfully convicted, one that caught my eye was Mohammed Khan who said that, "You could pick any Muslim name and be sure of seeing it on the roster," (p. 37), these middle aged men were being arrested only in terms of their religion and appearance. ...
Chinese were the middle level, but the indigenous Indonesians were the bottom level. (Terence, 127) Mister Setiono, a chairman of the Jakarta chapter of the Tionghoa Indonesia Association said, "The fact is, conglomerates (the Chinese-Indonesians) constitute only a small part of the community while most of us are in the low to middle classes of society." ...
Many large cities arose in the middle of the 20th century, as centers of mining and refining industries, "via migratory processes", involving mostly rural inhabitants, with their readiness to adopt new living conditions and master new forms of activity - but staying stubborn in their principles of distribution of roles between the sexes (Sarsembaeva 1999:2). ...
