Fascism as a political totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism on which the Fascist ideology was based found breeding sites everywhere in the world where the wounds of the Great War were still open. ... By 1926 Mussolini passed a law that declared h...

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" This in a parallel movement, a growing number of labor rights organizations have begun to deploy human rights discourse and methods" This position holds that the recognition of the ability of workers to organize and receive full legal protections is a fundamental human right. ... As he asseses, the lack of right-to-work laws, the presence of anti-scab laws, and the high saturation of unions weakens the impact of the labour movement in Canada (Savage 17). While Savage acknowledges that the connection to human and labour rights has yielded substantial victories for the labour movemen...

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The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ... The Khmer rouge movement led by Pol Pot, also known as, "Brother Number One," (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor) accounted for an estimated 1.5-3 million deaths and was aimed at erasing all Cambodian history, prior to their rise to power. This meant that under the Khmer Rouge movement, the first year of the revolution equally meant the first year of Cambodia's new h...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing econ...

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For example, Napoleon appointed family members and close friends as leaders of countries within his Empire. ... Within Poland, Napoleon was seen as the leader who could bring independence to Poland which was decreasing in power. ...

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This violence took place in particular between the opponents of the Treaty who could not accept the partition of the island, and the submission of the north to the British crown, and the partisans of the Treaty of 1922 who resigned themselves, along with the leader Collins, to the partial independence of their homeland. This violence had led the leaders of the Irish State to set up special courts to try acts of terrorism and in particular to try the members of the Irish Republican Army. ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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