To these people, they are willing to give up a few fundamental rights in return for increased security from the government. ... However, it is important to note who is censoring the material. ... Although they don't believe in total government restriction, and giving up their fundamental rights for security, they also don't believe that people should be able to do or say anything the want. ... If the government were to just give it all as it is than people would be more knowledgeable and therefore a lot more able to help run a democratic society. ...

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Lastly, it is important to note that torture need not create permanent damage to an individual. ... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's governments need to consider, because they have signed a social contract with their respective citizenry, a contract which stipulated that those citizens will support the state and occasionally give their lives for the state if and only if the states does everything in its power to protect them. ...

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Lastly, it is important to note that torture need not create permanent damage to an individual. ... Torture may be relegated as a last resort, but it is a resort that the world's governments need to consider, because they have signed a social contract with their respective citizenry, a contract which stipulated that those citizens will support the state and occasionally give their lives for the state if and only if the states does everything in its power to protect them. ...

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Whereas, a young woman with a career facing similar circumstances, hopefully, would take a more responsible approach by practicing safe sex, following through the full-term pregnancy, or giving the child up for adoption. ... It is also interesting to note that the percentage of Americans who favored abortion for career women dropped considerably from 1989 to 1998 (56% opposed in 1989; 70% opposed in 1998). ...

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Thus Secretary John Foster Dulles & Secretary Carlos Romulo could state in a joint note in 1954 that an armed that "an attack on the Philippines could not but also be an attack upon the military forces of the US." ... That was not unexpected in the Philippines & the US, there were & are constitutional obstacles for any executive to give a clear assurance external military involvement. ...

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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 establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...

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First of all one should take note of the inefficiencies within the operation of the HRA in the UK. ... One would consider that when citizens own their rights, then it is more likely that they would be more adamant about enforcing their rights, it gives them confidence since they are aware their own rights. ...

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On a separate note on violence due to pre-election tension, since the independence of Bangladesh, the country has not being able to hold a single national election that was violence free. ... Men giving her little independence still overwhelmingly control women's life. ...

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"Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ... 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. ... Likewise, they frequently pass these laws covertly, as Kelli Kennedy ...

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The theory argues that this cooperative concept give the resulting organization an increase in power and an expansion of the legitimacy of any of their taken action. ... Another political scientist Gottlieb notes the weaknesses of the definitions which stress power and authority to the near exclusion of territoriality: "The right to exclusive control over territory has long been a central ingredient of the sovereignty of states. ...

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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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The theory argues that this cooperative concept give the resulting organization an increase in power and an expansion of the legitimacy of any of their taken action. ... Another political scientist Gottlieb notes the weaknesses of the definitions which stress power and authority to the near exclusion of territoriality: "The right to exclusive control over territory has long been a central ingredient of the sovereignty of states. ...

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Despite God's declaration of equality, it is crucial to note that the Roman Catholic Church for centuries continues to uphold this disabling ideology of the domination and subordination of women, even though it out-rightly contradicts scriptures which ought to have been the church's guidebook. ... Stan concludes that if not for the intervention of the international human rights community, Beatriz would have lost her life just because a religious sect has refused to review its rigid, out-dated doctrine to give room for inclusiveness. ...

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Sexual and reproductive health is undeniably at the core of being human. It ensures the continuity of the human species through reproduction. It ensures the continuity of life when well taken care of. It is rather safe to say our sexual and reproductive health condition as humans determines the begi...

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