The CIA's publicized detention and interrogation program has since been ended in 2009 by President Obama, and a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the program's interrogation techniques had, surprisingly, concluded by stating that torture methods such as waterboarding, stress-position placing, and extreme human confinement were ineffective means of acquiring information. ... Torture for the Geneva Conventions is "violence to life and person.... Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directl...

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The CIA's publicized detention and interrogation program has since been ended in 2009 by President Obama, and a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the program's interrogation techniques had, surprisingly, concluded by stating that torture methods such as waterboarding, stress-position placing, and extreme human confinement were ineffective means of acquiring information. ... Torture for the Geneva Conventions is "violence to life and person.... Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directl...

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In the documentation of human rights violations and acts of violence connected with the armed confrontation, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH) registered a total of 42,275 victims, including men, women and children. ... Combining this data with the results of other studies of political violence in Guatemala, the CEH estimates that the number of persons killed or disappeared as a result of the confrontation reached a total of over 200,000 (www.ceh.com). ... More than 70 percent of rural residents are classified as living in extreme poverty, compared to 36 percent of urban inha...

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The United Nations Security Council demonstrated extreme incompetence by gathering a force of 5000 troops, but failing to organize them to arrive in Rwanda in time, before the conclusion of the genocide. ... In addition to NGO's, the media played an important role in spreading awareness of the violence and atrocities of the genocide around the world. ...

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In one extreme case, "if the abductor does not have the means to make the above-mentioned payment, let him be given over to the parents of the girl that they may have the power of doing to him whatever they choose."" ... A prime example of the cherish-oppress relationship exists in this law, "If any slave does violence to a native freewoman, and if the she complains and is clearly able to prove this, let the slave be killed for crime committed."" ...

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This view advocates the idea that in extreme cases of human rights abuses, the international community has the responsibility to protect civilians from 'genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity' where states fail. ... In response to the violence of 2011, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1970 in February, which referred the conflict to the International Criminal Court (ICC), to investigate the 'gross and systematic violation of human rights'. ...

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More broadly, a sweatshop is a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions and arbitrary discipline (Department of Labor, 2). ... Every person has basic human rights such as enough to eat, equality of opportunity, an education, freedom from violence, and a livelihood. ...

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