So, then, why do people still permit this to go on, why has it become an option for terminally ill patients? ... We had no choice as to when we were going to be brought into the life and we should not have the right to decide when we can leave. ... There is no need to end life now, live it out and enjoy the remainder of your time with your loved ones. ... There is NO RIGHT to sell heroin. There is NO RIGHT to take heroin. ...

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International law accepted that there were a range of political entities, not simply the single modern model of the sovereign state. ... There were rights if there was a provision in the Indian Act or in other legislation or in the constitution. ... Treaties, on their own, had no legal force in Canadian law; aboriginal rights claims were part of an ancient dreamtime. ... If there was no recognition of aboriginal and treaty rights in Canadian law before 1982, then section 35 had "recognized and affirmed" nothing. Ian Binnie, then the leading figure in the federal Department of Justice ...

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However, the human rights of the Chinese-Indonesians in Indonesia were violated in May 1998 and had no human rights. ... However, the Chinese's positions in Indonesia society were because historically they were barred from being servants and farmers, they then had to engage in trade and business. ... (Debbie, National News) There is a historical reason why Chinese control business in Indonesia. ... (Kompas) Whenever there was a condition of social or economic discontent, Chinese businesses usually were one of the first victims of the social unrest that may follow. ... Then the government ...

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Collective action then, makes an individual's actions become amplified and extended, whether they realize it or not. ... There is no leader in collective action. ... The problem with collective action in this sense is that individuals begin to believe that their actions have no influence. They may reason that where they purchase their goods from has no direct bearing on international trade. ... If there were no demand for products from countries with human rights violations, then there would not be a supply, either. ...

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Collective action then, makes an individual's actions become amplified and extended, whether they realize it or not. ... There is no leader in collective action. ... The problem with collective action in this sense is that individuals begin to believe that their actions have no influence. They may reason that where they purchase their goods from has no direct bearing on international trade. ... If there were no demand for products from countries with human rights violations, then there would not be a supply, either. ...

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There are many ideas and opinions that people believe women should and should not be, according to 17th-19th century ideas. ... Women were expected to act as these shallow, emotional creatures that had no depth mentally and could serve as helpless, reliant, and obedient wives to their ruling and overbearing husbands. ... It gives women a chance to grow as a person and then, as a result, potentially share the good works with the family. ... Women should be given the rights and freedoms and liberties as men are given, and not left to just be submissive creatures that rely on beauty and have n...

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To deny abortion is denying the mother certain civil rights, but if the fetus is considered a person, then the rights of the fetus are being denied by allowing abortion to be legal. ... Since both of these methods were very dangerous for women, infanticide was a much more popular form of abortion. ... But basically there are pro-life people and pro-choice people. ... The amendment states that, "No person or state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law" (475 US Constitution). ... Although the law has set boundaries on when a fetus shou...

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Imagine you were driving along a desert, and you come across a desperate mother and child dying of thirst and barely strong enough to lift their heads? ... Now, suppose that family were immigrants trying to enter the United States without proper documents, would that stop you from helping them? ... During the early 1900s and in times of economic growth when workers were needed, Mexican workers were welcomed across the border with relative ease. ... The Border Patrol was created in 1924 as part of what was then called the Immigration Bureau to "patrol the land border and stop smuggling- ("Hum...

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But to have any hope, certainty or believe we should firstly investigate the current situation that can give us a full picture of what chances we- females do have and do not and then what of them we are expected to get. ... In the Field Research there are all the data that were available reported and also those that were designed to show the results that this investigation contained of. ... Mainly, there will be answers on the questions about solving the problems that were highlighted earlier and do we need something to be done, and if yes, then what should be done in order to increase the a...

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If a declaration of incompatibility is made, the Government can then decide whether to amend the legislation in order to make it compatible with human rights. There is a special Parliamentary procedure for amending legislation declared incompatible under the HRA (section 10 and schedule 2). ... Section three deals with those rights which are absolute, these rights under no circumstances be limited nor can they be derogated in exigent circumstances. ... This Article usually applies apart form the case of torture, to cases of police brutality as there are no limitation on this right. ... Turkey...

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Again, this implies that there was no decision being made by the woman. ... A part of me wants to agree with them, but another part feels that there is no proof to such a claim. ... I feel once a child can sustain life on its own, then it doesn't matter that it is attached to the woman. ... My final position on abortion would have to be that even if I may want to believe a child is a human being from the moment of conception, I cannot impose that will upon others when there is no proof. ... If it is a child then, then just as I have no right to impose my moral beliefs on those people...

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A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. 5. ... And, bein...

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There are many points of view toward abortion but the only two fine distinctions are "pro-choice" and "pro-life". A pro-choicer would feel that the decision to abort a pregnancy is that of the mothers and the state has no right to interfere. ... When as much of the fetus and placenta are vacuumed out then tweezers are used to remove larger parts. ... There would be a number of unsafe abortions in back allies. ... Legislators have no right to interfere. ...

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Also in attendance were thousands of delegates from more than eight hundred non-governmental organizations (UNHCHR, 1996). ... However, no clear distinction was ever made between economic and political rights (Drinan, 2001: 7). ... While there are still violations against peoples" self-determination, there have also been some recent successes. ... While there, the children are given the bare minimum. There is no contact to the outside world and everyday is filled with hard work until the day that one is released. ...

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"There were 1.21 million abortions performed in the United States in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. ... If the Roe versus Wade case was changed, then infants over the world would be spared. ... Since there is no exact evidence on if a fetus is not alive, the fetus should being given the right to life until proven wrong. ... There is no way it can be innocuous"" (Reltso). ... If abortion were to be illegal, then the number of unwanted babies would probably increase. ...

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It is of no use and always leaves a scar on both parties. ... Then in the year 1990, Charles Taylor eliminated the former dictator and took control over Liberia (Liberia geography, 2006). ... There have been many similarities with women in the Angolan civil war as well. Besides the large number of women who died as a result of combat operations, there were hundreds raped by fighters on both sides. ... They no longer only controlled household duties but also adapted to working as well. ...

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It was then when the Nixon administration considered assassinating him. ... Then in December 1989, the United States celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War by invading Panama outright. ... Although it's not a murderous terrorist state like El Salvador or Guatemala, human rights abuses were probably worse there than in Panama. ... Do I think there are similarities in the way we invaded Panama as with Iraq? ... NO, it is not. ...

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At no stage were women included with in the definitions of citizenship. ... Condorcet stood with only a handful of men on supporting women's rights, but there were numerous amounts of women who were ready and willing to speak up and demand what they deserved, most notably Olympe de Gouges. ... There were fourteen women among those arrested during the protests against the steep rise in prices of flour and bread, other wise known as the 'flour war' of 1775. ... A small delegation of women- four to six- were permitted to approach the king who gave them reassurances that there would...

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There have been numerous accounts of physical abuse at these factories. Fifteen Vietnamese women were reportedly hit over the head by their supervisor for poor sewing, sending two to the hospital (48 Hours). Though Nike claims disciplinary actions were taken, C.E.O. ... In another Nike-operated factory, forty-five women were forced to kneel for twenty-five minutes with their hands in the air. ... In October of 1997, rallies against Nike were held in 50 cities across the United States and in 11 other countries (2). ...

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If she neglects her husband, putting him not at the center of her loyalty, then she neglects her duties and thus endangers the existence of the family. ... First within the family were children are raised to function in well-defined roles. ... No surprise then that "Woman" of John Lennon has been written by an active member of the "flower power" generation in 1978. ... However, after a second reading there is more to the song. ... There is no guarantee though and the lyrics do not say if there was a happy ending. ...

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For example, in 1995, a federal court in Massachusetts found that inmates' constitutional rights were violated when they were held in a 150-year-old prison that was infested with vermin, fire hazards, and a lack of toilets. ... It is sufficient if there is an administrative hearing before independent medical professionals. ... No. 104-134, 801-10, 110 Stat. 1321.1996.) ... Interestingly, no state or federal appeals court has forbidden male officers from supervising female inmates in the showers. ... Estate of Shabazz (1987), and stated that prison restrictions were to be upheld as l...

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If the colonizer is acting as the oppressor then the victim cannot live in peace. ... The great characteristic of realization, then, is the way artists pay attention to this break down in their work. ... The fifth, distortion, is usually shown in visual art rather than literature, although there are many instances of it there as well. ... Chapter 15: Feminisms and International Women's Movements Amrita Basu: Introduction Basu writes that there are three broad tendencies that literature on women's movements is characterized by. ... Basu writes that the idea of global sisterhood ...

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, Nussbaum promotes the rights of all human citizens, saying that there is no legitimate reason for valuing a single or group of individuals over another. ... The truth about this world is that there are many differences among the people who live in it. ... They barely voted because they were discouraged from doing so from white people who were threatened by their voice of opinion. Most importantly, they were official citizens but they were still persecuted, and they were segregated so that their presence couldn't be a burden to the predominant society. ... Black Americans were not tr...

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Evidently "it will be extremely difficult "but there is no question how vital indeed it is. ... Perhaps America and the Bush administration "outside of Osama Bin laden "had no idea of where they were going to continue their "war on terrorism-; as there are twenty-two Arab states. ... When assessing the Egypt, it is apparent that there military is no threat to U.S. ... In fact, there is no dispersal of power beyond that of the president and the National Democratic Party. ... If the Egyptian government corruption continues, then the resulting chaos of failed state disintegr...

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Troikas were set up to assist in the reviews of every state; these were groups that consisted of three of its member states. ... The troika then prepares a concluding summary report known as the ˜outcome report' highlighting recommendations and any input and response given by the SuR. ... Since the first UPR Ireland has had four reviews and there have been positive steps towards change in the human rights situation. ... If the APRM is assessed within the framework the AU's Constitutional Act then it can be said that the three core beliefs of the AU are what the APRM tries t...

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