The World Trade Organization, or the WTO, is a multinational organization that controls and deals with the rules of trade between countries. ... The WTO has several dispute panels that rule on which laws and policies are barriers to trade. ... By voting on certain policies, they can make money and powerful partnerships through aiding the corporation of their choice or a benefactor. ... Because the WTO is not democratic, its policies are unfair and only serve the needs of international large business. The policies impact many aspects of society, including international environmental laws, huma...

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The institutions have policies governing such incidences. ... Also, good network administration goes beyond the mere setting of the policy. ... Also, the organization's policy should clearly define the penalties for the violations of the email guidelines as well as establish an internal control of dealing with the violations of intellectual property rights. The organization can also adopt a usage and networking monitoring policy. ... The corporate policy should reflect on the organization's beliefs toward the use of intellectual property. ...

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Since there are no clear consistent laws addressing employee privacy rights, employers are left to their own company policies. ... Many employers feel that they have a right to intercept and read employee e-mail messages in order to effectively monitor employee work and maintain control of the workplace. ... Employers, on the other hand, argue that the need to monitor employee e-mail communications is imperative in order to investigate employees work related activities and prevent theft, insider trading or other illegal conduct, as well as to measure productivity, efficiency and quality con...

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Reflected in its policies and attitudes toward business are a governments idea of how best to promote the national interest, considering its own resources and political philosophy. A government controls and restricts a company's activities by encouraging and offering support or by discouraging and banning or restricting its activities depending on the government. ... International law recognizes the right of nations to grant or withhold permission to do business within its political boundaries and control its citizens when it comes to conducting business. ... Wal-Mart was caught between a...

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The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. ... Under federal law, marijuana is treated like every other controlled substance, such as cocaine and heroin. The federal government places every controlled substance in a schedule, in principle according to its relative potential for abuse and medicinal value. ... Although the federal government may use its power of the purse to encourage states to adopt certain criminal laws, the federal government is limited in its ability to directly influence state policy by the Tenth Amendment, which prevents t...

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It is important for companies to have policies in place to limit their exposure to violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... There are other laws such as, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Immigration reform and Control Act, Equal Pay Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and the National Labor Relations Act. ... The companies may also have to pay damages for emotional suffering and be forced to change their company policies. ...

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Bennett, "Drug Policy and the Intellectuals", accepts that medications ought to stay unlawful, and goes down his announcement with (American illustrations/past issues). ... In the event that we are experiencing difficulty controlling medication utilize now, in what manner will our police have the capacity to handle such a vast increment? ... "Control it, direct it, and assess it, "Johnson said of recreational medications. ... He perceives that actually when Britain's arrangement of having specialists control the drugs, "an energetic medication society developed with an interest...

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His definition was a policy of preferring qualified women and minority candidates who have been disadvantaged by past injustices over equally or more qualified white male candidates who have not been similarly disadvantaged. ... Sterba goes on to discuss how the Hopwood court was right in arguing that we shouldn't think that a person's race, or sex, controls his or her points of view. ...

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The dominance of male control in Palestine is currently threatening the progression of women rising above the constraints of patriarchy. ... There is also a focus on the forms of violence directed against women at the societal level and within the family, as well as a description of the laws, policies and measures related to the problem of violence, including criminal legislation, which explicitly discriminates against women (wclac.org). ... Other women's rights include: the right to live free of physical abuse, the right to live free of sexual exploitation, the right to health care and ...

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Retailers and manufacturers at the top of the pyramid dictate how much workers earn in wages by controlling the contract price given to the contractor. ... Sweatshop operators are notorious for avoiding giving maternity leave by firing pregnant women and forcing women workers to take birth control or to abort their pregnancies (Taylor, 52). Sweatshop operators can best control a pool of workers that are ignorant of their rights as workers. ... The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and 5 corporations control almost all the garment sales in this country. ...

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It was found in a recent study conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance that about 42% of people in the U.S. have used marijuana at least one point in their lives, clearing indicating that our current federal laws are not stopping people from using marijuana (Health & Family). ... However, if marijuana were to be legalized, marijuana users could have a way of obtaining their desired product safely due to enacted regulations and policies. ... Opponents of the legalization of marijuana argue that while the government could control demand of marijuana by raising or lowering taxes, higher taxes wou...

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If properly controlled and regulated, this prior illegal substance could become one of America's most helpful medications. ... While the national government's policy towards marijuana is still in favor of no marijuana use, state governments can regulate their own laws and eventually change the national policy if there is enough support. ... Also, the fact that the US national government only acknowledges marijuana as a harmful substance, while positive aspects of the drug have been proven to be true, leads one to question many other national policies and how that impact citizens in...

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Disparity is often things that cannot be controlled such are differences in race, gender, social class, and other topics (i.e. natural inequalities). ... Perceptive discrimination, which occurs when someone believes that one, has a certain characteristic regardless of them having it or not, for example indirect discrimination occurs when a policy for everyone puts down certain individuals with a certain characteristics such as wearing a shirt without a tie. ...

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Female circumcision is an integral part of societies that practice it, where patriarchal authority and control of female sexuality and fertility are unspoken traditions. ... Clear policy declarations by governments are essential to send a strong message of disapproval. ...

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He believes that because of this and the well known fact that the drug provides relief for these patients, the government is wrong in preventing the treatment from being available; as he puts it "a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy handed and inhumane" (670). ... The solution he proposes is for the government to solely control and distribute the marijuana, thereby providing regulations that could make sure that it used only for medicinal purposes by those who have a legitimate reason fo...

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There are no known detrimental health effects and there have never been any deaths on the account of marijuana, cigarettes and tobacco on the other hand have claimed over "four hundred and eighteen thousand lives in a given year" according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). ... We will advance and show the world the true extent of our democratic policies. ...

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This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led to the re-establishment of imperial rule and the opening up of the country to overseas trade and technology. ... The successful example would be Hong Kong, which was originally controlled by the Great Britain, It used all Western Science to make it like Western city, however it has keeped Chinese tradions such as Chinese New Year. ... This education, however, needed to be strictly controlled by ...

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The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control or even solve it. ... Research, which has been recently slowed by government policies, would be easier to conduct and several more benefits of the medicinal use of this forbidden medicine could be discovered. ... If we can distribute condoms and clean needles to control the spread of diseases, why can we not bring ourselves to distribute marijuana cheaply and legally? ...

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While most pot laws across America are becoming more lenient to their policies than they were decades ago, citizens being arrested for marijuana account for half of drug arrests adding to the millions of people incarcerated in prisons and the seven billion dollars the government dumps for prohibition. ... Legalizing marijuana keep the police going after the real law breakers all the while keeping an unregulated market out of their control. ...

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In the modern world of high level of information accessibility and mass awareness of professionals' legal obligations, the role of decision-making in healthcare delivery has evolved into a system where health care policies and ethics has given the service users the absolute power to decide about their care. ... Furthermore, in relation to other components of the ethical principle Autonomy (Beauchamp and Childress,1989), which suggests that anyone with the right to consent are in control of their own bodies and make the necessary decision concerning what type of medical treatment or care t...

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The Ombudsman is an office created by statute, which aims to act as a formal external control on the actions of the state. ... "Ministerial responsibility" refers to notion, inherited from the British Westminster system of government, that makes a minister responsible for the department or body, whom they claim control. ...

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The debate about this kind of governmental system has always raised the question about what ought to be and what in fact is the ultimate controlling institution in the British political system. ... However, the problem arises where issues of national security and public policy are in question and here the rule of law might be manipulated. ...

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Governments are created as a means to establish rules and laws as a guide to solving conflicts, and for the protection of the citizen's liberty and security. In a democratic society the government is not a single all- powerful authority wielding ultimate decisive power. Democratic institutions, such as courts, the executive and legislative branches of government, rely on the strength of the majority vote. If the government institutions rely on the will of the majority, problems can emerge of preserving and protecting an individual's liberty and security because of the immense dom...

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Some of these benefits include: the right to inherit property, the right to adopt children, the right to file joint tax returns, the right to visit one's spouse in the hospital, the right to receive social security when one's spouse dies and the right to have joint health, vehicle and life insurance policies (Same-Sex Marriage: Overview). ...

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Aboriginal occupation of Australia Archaeologists and prehistorians have dated the presence of Aboriginal people in Australia back about 50,000 years. It has been estimated that between 300,000 and 750,000 Aboriginal people were living in Australian in 1788. Each group had spiritual and economic links with particular areas of land. These groups had well defined rules which regulated the relationships of people within each group and the ways in which neighbouring groups or strangers interacted. In 1971, Blackburn J decided that certain Aboriginal clans in the Gove Peninsula area of the Norther...

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