The cahiers des doleances, May 1789, served as the first opportunity for the women of France, along with the rest of the country, to share their grievances. ... Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set off on the fourteen kilometer march to Versailles, armed with pikes, clubs, knives, swords, muskets, and a cannon (4). ...
The 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms sets the foundation for labor rights in Canada. ... Section 15 of the Charter sets the basis for labor rights by asserting that individuals have the right to equality before and under the law. ... While the Charter sets a minimal declaration of rights, provincial governments have the ability to extend upon the basic freedoms outlined in the Charter. ...
In fact, The United States itself passed a law like it that allows the trials of terrorists before military courts, and Britain set up a similar law to confront terrorism. ... Previous to September 11, Egypt came under criticism from the U.S. for its policy of forcing civilians to stand trial in front of courts that were set up to combat uprising and armed attacks aimed at overthrowing the government. ...
"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...
The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. 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. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...
A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty. 5. ... And thus,...
