The Watutsis regarded themselves as an elite minority, constantly on guard against real and imaginary plots by the Bahutu majority. ... Belgium copied the German practice of working through the Watutsi minority in governing the region. ... Selective genocide was launched in Rwanda by the Bahutu elite against the Watutsi minority. ... The Rwanda government never admitted the genocide of the Watutsi minority, claiming that only 870 people were killed. ... They struck at Watutsi soldiers and civilians in an attempt to overthrow the minority government. ...

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The interventionist agenda includes "assistance to populations in the event of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and grave threats to the environment; the prevention of genocide; and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" (Gottlieb, p. 91). ... Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collecti...

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The interventionist agenda includes "assistance to populations in the event of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and grave threats to the environment; the prevention of genocide; and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" (Gottlieb, p. 91). ... Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collectiv...

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Disparities in India take on various hues – there are disparities across geographical regions (States, districts, rural-urban), disparities along gender lines with women and sexual minorities facing discrimination and disparities faced by social groups such as Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Minorities, Differently Abled Persons, Internally Displaced Persons and People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), to name a few. ... Key development challenges include the need to improve programme implementation, accountability and service delivery, and to particularly address the failure...

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(WHO, 1) VAD disorders include reduced immune competence resulting in increased morbidity and mortality (largely from increased severity of infectious diseases); night blindness and corneal ulcers; exacerbation of anemia through suboptimal absorption and utilization of iron; and other conditions not yet fully identified or clarified (e.g., retardation of growth and development). ... Furthermore, the second largest minority group in California has its roots in this vitamin A depleted area of the world. ...

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Governments usually include members of the opposition ethnic groups into their government to help show the appearance of inclusion. Also, they include them into the decision making process, so their views can be adhered to. ... Local leaders and government need to be very sensitive about leaving the minorities behind. ...

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Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2012), explains that the concept of security started to change after the end of the Cold War and not it includes a new additional element, which is "the protection of the environment from irreversible degradation by combating, among other things, acid rain, desertification, forest destruction, ozone pollution, and global warming. ... The term "ecological problems"" can include a large number of issues. ... Moreover the cultural and religious difference have exacerbated the conflict and nowadays violent episodes between the immigrant minorities an...

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These forms of knowledge include religion, philosophy, aesthetics, and empirical science among other things. ... This includes their role in political and communal life at whatever level they participate. ... These include activities geared towards developing positive attitudes and understanding which goes well with citizenship education. ...

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Primary education is the foundation on which the intellectual capital of a country is built which is why this essay will now look at goal 2 which is, "Ensuring that by 2015, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and complete free education and compulsory primary education of good quality" (UNESCO, 2000). ...

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This led to the creation of the League of Nations, which was the predecessor to the United Nations, whose focus was to restore peace in Europe by protecting minorities and to eliminate any potential cause for conflict. ... The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons of the sea, killing of hostages,...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater part of the world faces daily, and expects in the future, are inconceivable to those in wealthy nations. World peace through international government and law is an ancient idea that has mightily fastened itself on the minds of people throughout the ages. Never before, however, has the human race b...

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Also, the inordinate ambition for violent territorial expansion of nation states which replaced the collapsed empires in these regions meant that political opposition alliances to such ideals were crushed, minority views were violently suppressed, established ruling class structures were violently dismantled by revolutionary armed movements and the once residents and citizens of these empires lost their status and were denationalized or denied the benefit citizenship rights in the new national political nation-state model. ...

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The World Conference on Human Rights took place over two weeks in June of 1993. The Conference was held in Vienna, Austria. In attendance were 171 states committed to strengthening human rights throughout the world and to presenting an international plan to accomplish this goal. Also in attendance were thousands of delegates from more than eight hundred non-governmental organizations (UNHCHR, 1996). These people included representatives for the disabled and handicapped, children, women, those who have been tortured, prisoners, and indigenous people (Drinan, 2001: 55). ...

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