Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign human rights internationally recognized, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December, 1948). ... Amnesty International deals more with allegations than undisputed facts. ... But Amnesty International was able to break that isolation . ... AI is also a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which is a coalition that unites national and international human rights organizations, trade unions, ba...

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Although many are unorganized and address a single issue, grassroots organizations" protests have had a surprisingly influence on the institutions they protest, including the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. ... Free trade has in many ways become harmful to developing countries that are prohibited from following the same policies that developed countries once pursued, such as protecting domestic industries until they can be internationally competitive. From 1960 to 1998, the most recent period of rapid growth in global trade and investment, inequal...

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A further ethical issue regarding human rights is the justification of intervention and the international community's 'Responsibility to Protect', and the impact of this intervention, such as that seen in Libya, on state sovereignty. ... Thus human rights are culturally relative and are certainly not universal in many states which have opposing views to the West, despite being international law. ... This mistreatment specifically violates the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which China is party to. ... Under the Chinese Communist P...

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Today it is an overarching international system shaping the domestic politics and foreign relations of virtually every country, and we need to understand it as such." ... To observe the effects of globalization, one must know the general context of such an international mechanism. ... We talked a little about how the internet aids human rights violations, but I want to get a little more specific and take a look at how individual proprietors, powerful multinational corporations, and global agencies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) affect human rights. How can eco...

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According to a Kean University (2006) report, "the Patriot Act was established after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and its main point was to protect people from terrorism. ... While the US government utilized the Patriot Act since its passage in 2001, it was not until December of 2005 when the New York Times reported that "the government monitored international telephone calls and international email messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants" (Pro Publica, "Warrentless Wiretapping Revealed"). ... Realisti...

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On the issues of Trade Policy, Governor Dean's Policy would be based on strict and enforceable labor standards based on the five core standards of the International Labor Organization (ILO): freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, abolition of forced or compulsory labor, abolition of child labor, and freedom from discrimination. Governor Dean is acutely aware of the pain being felt by many hard-working Americans who have lost their jobs, especially in the manufacturing sector, sometimes as a result of trade and sometimes as a result of the recent economi...

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Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justified moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons, or as legal rights either at a national level or within international law.1 As a student studying International Relations, I'm terribly attracted on the approach that N.G.Os strive against "human rights issues" in Cuba. ... Human Rights Issues has been a tremendous topic for Cuba in the International Community since the Castro-Regime. ... They publishes research reports on the basis violations of international human rights norms as set o...

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While companies such as Sime Darby and Wilmar International are moving towards sustainable palm oil production, overall this is not the case. On January 22nd of this year Wilmar International Ltd., the worlds largest palm oil processor, opened its doors to the scrutiny of environmentalists and the public. ... " This statement was made 5 months after a joint communication from Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace, SumOfUs, Union of Concerned Scientists, and International Labour Rights Forum was sent to PepsiCo calling it to require its suppliers to uphold human rights, worker's right...

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Meanwhile, people in African still suffer the unfair trade labor. ... Guy-Andre Kieffer "had become one of the country's leading experts in primary commodities, and he specialized in the cocoa and coffee trade But his curiosity had led him deeper and deeper into the shadows of the cocoa industry and into a dark underworld occupied by the clique whose member dominate the filiere. ... The disappearance of French national, well known to the international media, possibly kidnapped on order from highest offices in the government of Cote d'Ivoire "(217). Many others also risk their lives t...

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The notorious sweatshops of the age of Big Business (the late 19th and early 20th centuries) virtually disappeared after World War II because of increased government regulation of monopolies and the rise of trade unions. ... The popularity of the "free" market following the fall of Communism and a rise in anti-union sentiment, coupled with government programs (like NAFTA and GATT) designed to encourage free trade, have hastened the globalization process. ... Even in North America, where the North American Free Trade Agreement is supposed to enforce a minimum standard for workers' rights, ...

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Richard Garfield, an epidemiologist at Columbia University who analyzes the health consequences of economic embargoes, calculates that 225,000 Iraqi children under 5 have died since 1990 because of these policies-a figure based on the best data available from UN agencies and other international sources (Gordon 19). ... "In 1990, sanctions appeared to be a nearly ideal device for international governance. ... The support for military interventions as well as economic sanctions stem from a preventative thread based in the desire reduce the leaders capacity to do harm, either in the fo...

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They had hoped to trade Ruanda-Urundi for a piece of northern Angola to add to their southern colony of the Congo. ... The failure of the international community, including the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the United Nations, to denounce the atrocities in Burundi gave a green light to other African governments wishing to use a "final solution" to historical intertribal rivalries. ...

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