There is nothing in the Qur"an that authorized it (UN, 1994)" The UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, reacting to the Egyptian court decision, stated: "The recognition that female genital mutilation cannot be justified under Islamic law is an enormously important element in making the case for the abolition of the cruel, ritualized form of violence against women and girls... the clarity and authoritativeness of the decision is a dramatic affirmation of the rights of women and girls that will reverberate far beyond Egypt. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Albert Memmi, The Two Answers of the Colonized Memmi writes that colonizers are creatures of want while all who are colonized need change. The fact that the colonizers do not see this is due either to a lack of understanding of colonization or their own selfishness. If the colonizer is acting as th...

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"So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen"(2 Sam 1:10). These were the words of the Amalekite who killed Saul because he found him suffering. This young man decided that he would take the life of an "anointed" servant of the Lord and fel...

• Word Count: 2597
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In transgressing the law of Nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men for their mutual security, and so he becomes dangerous to mankind; the tie which is to secure them from injury and violence being slighted and broken by him, which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of Nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may restrain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxio...

• Word Count: 7672
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. ...

• Word Count: 4300
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate