Chinese in Indonesia became the scapegoats for the government, being successful and easy-targeted for any mistakes of the government. ... Many facts suggest that this was totally wrong and Indonesian government should work harder to protect Chinese-Indonesian rights. ... The Indonesian government did not protect the Chinese-Indonesians. Instead, Suharto's New Order government had created a negative image of the Chinese-Indonesians to invoke people's hatred and anti-Chinese sentiment. ... The Indonesian government did not accept the Chinese-Indonesians in what they were. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Executions still remain widespread, with China killing 1,077 in 1999. ... So many lives were lost even though both governments agreed that the war over a tiny disputed patches of land was crazy. ... Opposing the Chinese authorities in Tibet have had fatal consequences for many, even including monks and nuns. Authorities have become subtle- both uniformed and plain clothed Chinese police are active. The main aim of the Chinese government is to maintain "stability" by removing any desire for self rule and removing loyalty to the Dalai Lama. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Freedom is when a human being can vote and make decisions about the government and not fear about being arrested or beaten in such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other nondemocratic countries. ... Freedom is one the most desired right in the world in such countries as China, Cuba, Domican Republic, and Haiti. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

These three parts include the right to be free of violations of the integrity of the person (torture and arbitrary arrest/imprisonment), the right to the fulfillment of vital needs (shelter, food, education, and healthcare), and last but not least, the right to enjoy civil and political liberties (freedom of thought, religion, assembly, speech, and the press; freedom of movement both within and outside one's country; and freedom to take part in government) (Reimer p. 369). ... Many of whose strategies include taking things to the United Nations to draft international human rights standard...

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At times, the Vietnamese government has opened its doors to sweatshop labor in order to decrease poverty and unemployment (Doan 2). ... Nike's use of sweatshops in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, Indonesia, and China, is one of the most high-profile cases involving the rights of workers in foreign countries. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An American may also be African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan (Ferrara, par 3). ... For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God (Ferrara, par 4)." ... American women are free to dress how they want and listen to whom they want, as long as they remember to comply with the laws of the government. ...

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They include, among others, China, France, Iran, Iraq, Russia, South Africa, Uganda, and the United States. ... National defense has, since the emergence of nations, been a main concern of every government on the planet, if not priority number one. ... They are committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security, stressing the fact that their objective analysis" of these issues is done with no government or defense industry funding, thus avoiding any subjective findings due to these coercive forces. ...

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This military action was an obvious threat to the self-government of Panama. The US government had known that Noriega was involved in drug trafficking since at least 1972. ... The US government continued to value Noriega's services. ... This was just in time to make certain a compliant government for the administrative changeover of the Canal on January 1, 1990. ... The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in ...

• Word Count: 3327
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• Grade Level: High School

Companies in Asia paid workers in China and Vietnam $1.60 a day and workers in Indonesia less than $1.00 a day, when at least $3.00 per day is considered the minimum living wage. ... This change came only when the government expressed serious concern over the affects of the Asian financial crisis in their country. Coincidentally Nike's wage increase began on April 1, 1999, the same day the Indonesian government implemented a nation-wide mandate to increase minimum wages. ...

• Word Count: 2348
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School