Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...

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The Human Rights Act 1988 seeks to give effect to the principle of "bringing the Convention Rights home". ... The most important Article under the European Convention in the context of family issues is Article 8 which provides: 1. " Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. ...

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Perhaps this was hurt far to great for John Foster to forgive, and he held even the children of his transgressor responsible. ... The bankers and town officials worked within the law to settle Deake's accounts: they bound out her children, sent her "home" to her father, and sold all the belongings of the family. ...

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Meanwhile, we shuffle our homeless from place to place; we illegally deprive them of property and liberty for committing unavoidable minor infractions; and they face dehumanizing discrimination both on the streets that they call home and within our justice system. ... Stephanie Goldberg explains why the courts found a 1992 Santa Ana, California ordinance prohibiting camping unconstitutional in her article, "Homeless Victory," The court held that the ordinance infringed on the right to travel by giving the homeless two choices – to go to jail or move to another town. ...

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In other words, corporal punishment may be referred to as the act of causing physical pain on a student's body as a form of punishment for a certain crime or contravention which may be at home or at school. ... Socialization theory is another important theory that has been used over the last decade to discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment to children in school or at home. ... In the effort to reinforce our argument, it's important to look at the outcomes of the convention held in 1989 in an effort to safeguard the rights of the children. ... In some US states, Belarus, R...

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One such widely held misconception is that Mexican immigrants bring nothing but drugs, crime and filth, along with economic costliness by taking advantage of social service resources (Operation Gatekeeper: -New Resources- 1). ... East San Diego County residents had complained about the massive foot traffic of migrants near their homes. ... Residents of the area feel that Operation Gatekeeper is necessary, in order to ensure safety in their own homes and neighborhoods. ... Although this portrays a negative image towards these border crossing migrants, and Operation Gatekeeper has shown to ha...

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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 ...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...

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For example, in AF v Secretary of the State for the Home Department, the House had to determine how to respond to the Grand Chamber's recent judgment in A v UK, where it held that Article 6 imposed an absolute requirement that a terrorist suspect should be informed of the 'gist' or essence of the case against him. ...

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A Guatemalan woman told Cecilia Menjivar, a professor at the Arizona State University, that every time they go clean homes at night, she and her husband never ride together in the same car for fear that they might be stopped and deported to a detention center, and separated from their children. ... Those facilities that tolerate such abusive behavior should be shut down or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents should ensure that the detainees are held in humane and safe conditions. ...

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Human rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled". Proponents of the concept usually assert that everyone is endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human. Human rights are thus conceived in a Universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can exist...

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The World Conference on Human Rights took place over two weeks in June of 1993. The Conference was held in Vienna, Austria. In attendance were 171 states committed to strengthening human rights throughout the world and to presenting an international plan to accomplish this goal. Also in attendanc...

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Female circumcision, the partial or total cutting away of the external female genitalia, has been practiced for centuries. Often performed without anesthetic under septic conditions by lay practitioners with little or no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, female circumcision can cause death or...

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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 first meeting, held in Mexico City in 1975, focused on equality, development, and peace. ...

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