History has shown us what a huge harm discrimination can do to minorities in our society. ... Anti-discrimination laws are in place so that we can minimize the amount of discrimination in our society, which of course includes offensive expressions because that they are still a form of difference in treatment. ... In conclusion, anti-discrimination laws are in place in order to minimize the difference in treatment because of someone's race, gender or age, and offensive expressions are definitely a part of difference in treatment, and in the definition of freedom of expression, this freedom...

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The Watutsis regarded themselves as an elite minority, constantly on guard against real and imaginary plots by the Bahutu majority. ... Belgium copied the German practice of working through the Watutsi minority in governing the region. ... Selective genocide was launched in Rwanda by the Bahutu elite against the Watutsi minority. ... The Rwanda government never admitted the genocide of the Watutsi minority, claiming that only 870 people were killed. ... They struck at Watutsi soldiers and civilians in an attempt to overthrow the minority government. ...

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The interventionist agenda includes "assistance to populations in the event of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and grave threats to the environment; the prevention of genocide; and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" (Gottlieb, p. 91). ... Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collecti...

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The interventionist agenda includes "assistance to populations in the event of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and grave threats to the environment; the prevention of genocide; and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" (Gottlieb, p. 91). ... Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collectiv...

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Howard Dean, The presidential candidate In the last few years, America has suffered a great economic downturn and terror threat. Since the last election in the year 2000, not too many improvements haven occurred. Thousands of people have lost their jobs especially in the manufacturing sector. We...

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These include individual rights common to most liberal democracies, such as equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion, and the right to constitutional remedies for the protection of civil rights by means of writs such as habeas corpus. ... In 1928, the Nehru Commission composing of representatives of Indian political parties proposed constitutional reforms for India that apart from calling for dominion status for India and elections under universal suffrage, would guarantee rights deemed fundamental, representation ...

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The husband-and-wife duo, George and Sheila Grant, undertook the highly controversial topic of abortion and the many elements that pertain to foetal rights in their "Abortion and Rights" essay. It is apparent from the authors' captivating arguments that they are against the legalization of abortion....

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This led to the creation of the League of Nations, which was the predecessor to the United Nations, whose focus was to restore peace in Europe by protecting minorities and to eliminate any potential cause for conflict. ... The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons of the sea, killing of hostages,...

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Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishi...

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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 attendance were thousands of delegates from more than eight hundred non-governmental organizations (UNHCHR, 1996). These people included representatives for the disabled and handicapped, children, women, those who have been tortured, prisoners, and indigenous people (Drinan, 2001: 55). ...

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Vulnerability of an unadapted society, absence of economic conditions, inappropriate social and moral environment for development of not only some specific minorities or sexual groups but for that of individuality break participation of women in political processes. ...

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