In the same way Australian law has used the concept of "terra nullius," the legal myth that Australia had no previous owners. ... Our legal tradition has been so self-confident, so arrogant, that it felt no need to have any legal theory justifying British colomalism. ... The Canadian legal system, in the years after World War II, recognized no Indian rights as such. ... Treaties, on their own, had no legal force in Canadian law; aboriginal rights claims were part of an ancient dreamtime. ... The white paper dismissed treaties as of little significance and denied any legal char...

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Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishi...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... ...

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I will undertake this analysis of the sovereignty case in five steps by: 1) providing an overview of sovereignty; 2) offering a brief explaining of non-intervention and it's correlation with sovereignty 3) analyzing the principle of self-determination; 4) describing the evolution of the disagreement from September to December of 2012; and 5) Conclusion Sovereignty Historians date the modern concept of sovereignty back to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which conferred privileges upon territorial rulers with little attention to the ethnic and religious affiliations of their peoples. ... I...

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"We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of a human person, in the equal rights of men and wom...

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For this reason, there is a debate on whether abortion should be legal or illegal. ... The final decision from the Supreme Court made abortion legal. ... In order for the violence to stop, abortion should not be legal. ... Illegal or legal, abortions will never be safe, that can damage a woman forever. One study, STAKES, the statistical analysis unit of Finland's National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health discovered that, "after abortion, women were found to be seven times more likely to die by their own hand than were women who gave birth" (Tech). ...

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In a research study that was conducted to give an in depth analysis on the definition of a civil war, Gersovitz and Kriger (2013) explained civil war as a "politically organized, large-scale, sustained, physically violent 4 conflict that occurs within a country principally among large/numerically important groups of its inhabitants or citizens over the monopoly of physical force within the country" (p. 3). ...

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Introduction A. Reasons for Undertaking Research. Today, during these democratic transformations, women are becoming more active in many spheres and trying to compete with men and take their rightful place in a new society. Historically the administrative structure is comprised of men and does not reflect the developing level of public potential and therefore on the opportunities or influence of women on affairs of a society, state and family. It also fails to provide the correct social direction for the development of a society and its democratization. ...

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