They subject the people to the maximum of suffering upon the physical and moral integrity of the whole population, where the children and of the elderly of women, they can be seen as a crime against humanity. The US embargo has been reinforced in October of 1992 by the Cuban Democracy Act, which restrained the development of the Cuban economy's new driving forces there by hitting the flow of funds and goods by, the strict limitations of the transfers of foreign currencies and different families. ... Social damages affecting the population concerning food, health, education, culture, and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is estimated that 17 percent of the population is undernourished. ... A minimum-wage law (requiring wages of from $2.50 to $5 per day) went into effect in 1992, which helped keep wages ahead of inflation through 1994. ... About 54 percent of the population has access to health care, but the majority of doctors are around Guatemala City. ... Guatemala's population, the largest of any Central American country, is 12,974,361 (2001 estimate). ... Guatemala has a young population, with 16 percent under age 5 and 26 percent age 5 to 15 in 2001. ...

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Improving the level of women's education can help reduce population, and improve health of family members. ... Women, half of the population, have made great contribution to society, but they are still in a condition without any rights. ... In America, before 1992, female members of legislative body had only taken 5.6 percent, but now the rate has risen to 10 percent. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, feminist movements in Europe, the United States, Australia (Silard 1994), Argentina (Oller 1994), Brazil (Thomas 1994), India (Bush 1992), the Virgin Islands (Morrow 1994) and many other parts of the world developed strategies to protect women from violence in the home through shelters, support groups for victims, and criminalization of battering. ... The major UN convention on women's rights, the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) does not mention violence against women explicitly, but the committee ...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for the political and civil rights that they deserved, and backed up their demands with well-thought-out logical arguments. The women of 18th century France pioneered through uncharted ideological, political, and social grounds, but their work was fruitless in establishing women's rights in the con...

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Blacks comprise 12 percent of the U.S. population but 41 percent of those on death row and 35 percent of those executed between 1977-2001 were Black, according to the Justice Department Bureau of Justice statistics. ... According to Dallas Morning News 1992, "Each death penalty case costs Texas an average of 2.3 million dollars. ...

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• Grade Level: High School