A major factor in the success of the movement was the strategy of protesting against discrimination without using violence as an alternative to armed uprising. ... Robinson led the Women's Political Council, which plotted strategy for a one-day bus boycott in Montgomery following Rosa Parks' arrest. ... The Civil Rights Movement also acted as a training ground for the eventual participants in the women's liberation movement. ... Advocacy continued and turned into legislative success in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. ...

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Disability Service Act 1993 (NSW)- This Act contains principles that are statements of human rights of people with disabilities. ... Community Services Act 1993 (NSW)- Set up the Community Services Commissioner and the Community Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal which allow complaints about disability services to be made. ... Mental Health Act 1990 (NSW)- Caters for the protection of the mentally ill. Guardianship Act 1887 (NSW)- Protects those who cannot look after themselv...

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As a President, Governor Dean would create a White House Office of Economic Growth that would work with governors and mayors to create vital regional growth strategies, and break through bureaucratic logjams to deliver results. ... Another goal Dean will work on, is to ensure that racial profiling ends and I will direct my Attorney General to use regulatory authority under existing anti-discrimination laws the 1964 Civil Rights Act to define racial profiling as discrimination, and to withhold federal funds from state and local law enforcement that violate those regulations. ... Our own fight ...

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Blood, Sweat, and Shears: A Closer Look at Sweatshops How can you tell if the product you are about to purchase was made by a child, by teenaged girls forced to work until midnight seven days a week, or in a sweatshop by workers paid 9 • an hour? The sad fact is...You cannot. The companies do not want you to know, so they hide their production behind locked factory gates, barbed wire and armed guards. Many multinationals refuse to release to the American people even the list and addresses of the factories they use around the world to make the goods we purchase. The corporations say...

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The Peace Treaty of Westphalia, the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna and the League of Nations Minority Treaties during the inter-war period in the first half of the twentieth century all included provisions for specific group-based rights in key areas related to language use, such as cultural institutions, education and communication with public services. ... Politicians declare that they support strategies in favor of linguistic minorities in their countries however, they don Ÿt recognize the need to apply particular solutions. ...

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-based organization that claims to act as a forum for discussing Cuban society, has detailed what it believes are complex variables when analyzing human rights immediately after the revolution.2 During the 1960's violence rose throughout Cuba, known as the "Escambray Rebellion" this came between the Cuban government and armed opponents, but slowly diminished by the early 1970s; after coming to power in 1959, Fidel Castro's government built a highly effective machinery of repression, according to Human Rights Watch.3 The Human Rights Watch is an international non-government...

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