INTERNATIONAL LAW QUESTION: Is international law "law"? ... There are clear differences between international and national law. ... As a final observation on the nature of international law, it is worth mentioning the similarities between the Realist interpretation and that of the Austinian Command Theory in legal scholarship. ... Even in domestic society some people (e.g., criminals) break the law from time to time. ... I believe that a conclusive argument can be fashioned that international law is really law, by showing that international law is enforceable in the same way that do...

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There are two main ways to distinguish the difference between domestic and international rights: One, international rights are more surrounding and involved in dealing with many rights more than the domestic law of most countries. ... And two international rights aren't as readily enforceable as domestic rights. The domestic legal rights have the authority of domestic laws supporting them. ... There is choice for using international treaties for the interpretation of domestic law, a domestic law, which is free of elusiveness, prevails notwithstanding any violation of international law. ...

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Abstract Hiring and retaining more women provides numerous important advantages to law enforcement agencies. Research conducted in the United States and internationally has clearly documented the following facts: (1) female officers are less likely to use excessive force; and (2) more female officers will improve law enforcement's response to violence against women. ... Only 12.7% of all sworn law enforcement positions in large agencies were held by women in 2001. ... There is a crisis in law enforcement today. ... Executives are being demanded to transform the very nature of the relati...

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International Environmental Law NGOs and the development of international environmental law. ... The fundament Historically as well as theoretically, international law is centred around sovereign states. ... Tarlock the NGOs "fill out a niche in international law created by the state-centered notion of international law." . ... However, because of the fundamental difference in the nature of NGOs compared to states, there is no guarantee that the information given from one NGO shows the complete nature of a problem. ... However under domestic laws of the USA and some other states, mainly ...

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The inherent idea, that international law and international organizations can help manage or prevent international conflict. It further shares the idea that international politics can operate like domestic politics. ... Realism, also known as "Power Politics" states there is a distinction between domestic and foreign policy, and they cannot be intertwined; each policy has to be operated separately. ... It refers to exploitation among classes, rich and poor, or Proletariat and Bourgeoisie, between states. ... This is generally considered a difference of regional philosophy, East vs. ...

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(M.Jone 2002) this is due to three sources of differences between accounting system (C.Roberts; P.Weetman; P.Gordon 2002). ... The third difference in preferred accounting practises. ... The benefits of International accounting When differences persist within countries, then there is no comparable financial reporting. ... Cecchini (1988) reports on survey of European international companies showing that different national accounting system caused between 10% and 30% of the total accounting costs. ... This will have added cost of complying with foreign markets, which cannot be possible if they...

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However, there are certainly many differences to the approach of understanding international relations that these scholars helped create. ... Also, he promotes the insignificance of the states' domestic political system. ... Definitively, Morgenthau and Kant argue opposing political theories, yet their most fundamental differences include how to maintain power and the relevance of a state's domestic political system. ... However, Kant points out the difference between a republic government and a democratic one, and frowns upon a democratic due to lack of the general public's k...

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The incidence of acid throwing and stove burning is categorized as domestic violence in Pakistan. ... The reported figures on domestic violence against women shows that there is not a visible difference in such incidence, which means that the state is not responding actively to stop these incidence and also the society is not changing their behaviour towards such crimes (Aurat Foundation, 2011). ... 'Many of these attacks occurred over an arguments between wife and mother in law, over dowery or money. ... Upon her disagreement, her in-law set her on fire.   ... Gill's in-laws cl...

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Whether the company is domestic, national, international, large or small political factors of the country it is located in will have an impact on it. ... Here steps in international law. International law recognizes the right of nations to grant or withhold permission to do business within its political boundaries and control its citizens when it comes to conducting business. ... Wal-Mart was caught between a Canada-United States foreign policy feud. ... Cultural The cultural differences between countries are a large environmental factor that must be considered in a global marketing strategy...

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Domestic Violence Commonality Here are a few facts about Domestic violence: four women die every day in the United States as a result of domestic violence. ... It is estimated that between 2.5 to 4 million assaults actually occur (U.S. ... Murphy's research found that between 50,00 and 100,000 lesbian women and as many as 500,000 gay men are victims of domestic violence each year. ... Types of Abuse There are fundamental differences in the types of abuse. ... People in therapy for spousal abuse were surveyed, 60 percent of men were victims of child abuse while 44...

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This essay will go on to explore and explain the gender differences in the international division of labour. ... They expose the very rigid division between women and men and a strict demarcation between women's jobs and men's jobs. ... Linda Lim (1983) believes it is the domestic roles and gendered expectations that result in shorter working lives with less experience, training and superiority. ... To conclude, the gender differences in the international division of labour are obvious. ... Unfortunately, workers in the international division of labour, and women are still being subj...

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Traditionally, international law sees international disputes as a matter to be resolved between the contracting parties. ... In international law, a nicety can be maintained between human rights instruments and non-human right instruments. ... The reasons for the above difference in treatment between human rights instrument and non-human rights treaties are not flinty to detect. ... Not only that natural law theorists recognized the intervention in domestic humanitarian matter, positivist scholars, law theorists recognized the intervention in domestic matters, are also convinced that...

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Old English Common Law allowed husbands to beat their wives provided that the stick they used was not thicker than his thumb; hence the phrase "Rule of Thumb"(Heart on a Chain [Video]). Although times have changed in this regard and laws have been enacted in order to protect women from abuse, the fact remains that acts of domestic violence occur every 15 seconds in the United States. ... Social Psychological Theory explains the strong emotional bond that forms between the battered woman and her partner, sometimes referred to a traumatic bonding (Painter & Dutton, 1985). This term is defined as...

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The difference between United States two drone programs is the military-led operation operates in recognized war zones (Middle East) and targets enemies stationed in the area whereas, C.I.A program is aimed at terror suspects around the world, including in countries where U.S. troops are not based. ... Ever since Bush Administration defended the drone program under domestic and international law, Obama continues to use drones in war on terror, which others would call "war of terror". ... (Koh 2010) Finally, using drones to target "high level belligerent leaders" does not vi...

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Old English Common Law allowed husbands to beat their wives provided that the stick they used was not thicker than his thumb; hence the phrase "Rule of Thumb"(Heart on a Chain [Video]). Although times have changed in this regard and laws have been enacted in order to protect women from abuse, the fact remains that acts of domestic violence occur every 15 seconds in the United States. ... Social Psychological Theory explains the strong emotional bond that forms between the battered woman and her partner, sometimes referred to a traumatic bonding (Painter & Dutton, 1985). This term is ...

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In the United States there are three main ways to adopt, foster care adoption, private domestic adoption and international adoption. ... After Massechusetts, more states began to make more laws. ... Soon all states required that law. ... A home was established to allow illegal trading between Canada and the United States. ... What are the differences of privately adopting a child and adopting a foster care child? ...

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Some differences between countries will always exist so as long the markets are free to adjust to the changing of the economic conditions, country differentials should largely be of a transitory nature. ... The deathtrap of losing national sovereignty from the international agreements are similar for nations that have their import control laws overridden by the World Trade Organization treaties. ... Great difference in economic performance between them that tie in to the euro. ... Some of the disadvantages are: Canada would have to give up their control of domestic inflation and interest rate....

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Suicide is a heartfelt issue no matter where it strikes but it's also not a very popular topic in the law enforcement and police culture. ... Law enforcement officers kill themselves at a rate of 18/100,000 vs. 12/100,000 of the rest of the US.  ... This paper works to gain a better understanding of the several factors that can lead to police officer suicide as well as identifying some possible solutions and intervention techniques that can make a difference. ... Such messages are formed in the recollection of 'War Stories' (Ford) that transpire the core values of policing a...

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After describing how gender violence became a human rights violation articulated in formal documents of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. ... The wheel was developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (D.A.I.P) in Duluth, Minnesota in the early 1980s and widely used in batterer's intervention programs such as the one I studied in Hilo and women's support groups. ... The emergence of a transnational movement against violence against women was...

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Question What is the difference in the prevalence and conditions of child labour in developing and developed countries? Why does this difference exist? ... Even the laws that do exist are not implemented properly due to a week system of law and order in places like Pakistan. ... Governments must develop and implement laws prohibiting and regulating child labour and international bodies must monitor the situations of child labour in these countries. ... In addition to setting the international law, the United Nations initiated the International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour (...

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If communities (in Australia) are to redraw the balance between individual rights and rights of the community some individuals will lose their liberty, liberty which is guaranteed by the Rule of Law, liberty which every individual has the right to. A government in violation of the Rule of Law cannot function. 1 The Rule of Law. ... Rule of Law or government under law: "The government must be bound by substantive law, not only constitutional, but also as far possible by the same laws as those which bind the individual." ... The Law Council of Australia referred to the range of legislat...

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Although the Democracy Movement was violently suppressed, images of demonstrators confronting tanks and marching with the "Goddess of Democracy- figure, bearing a striking resemblance to the Statue of Liberty, formed an imaginative link between China and America on global television screens. ... Thus, Vanishing Son encourages cross-cultural understanding in its support of Chinese political dissent and romances between Jian-Wa and Euro-American women and, at the same time, points to the impossibility of assimilating the criminal, Asian alien into American society. ... Within the Chinese diaspor...

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If one agrees that there are new forces in global politics and that those new forces constitute a change to the structure of the international system; but, does not buy the proposition that such change spells the end of the world as it is currently understood, what, then, is the challenge facing those who seek to better understand the evolving landscape of international relations? ... The first requires that the so-called "Great Divide" between a state's domestic and international policy be compromised. ... Finally, a state must relinquish its role as the primary player, giving way to ...

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The outsourcing of a number of basic functions which traditionally were carried out by national armies or police forces, known as the top-down privatization, has blurred the borderlines between the public services of the State and the private commercial sector. ... Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level of insecurity; (ii) in armed conflicts when international organiz...

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This explanation comes as no surprise to realists, who argue that there can be no progress, no law, and no justice, where there is no common power. ... Both were reacting to the barbarity of international relations, or what Kant graphically described as `the lawless state of savagery', at a time when domestic politics was at the cusp of a new age of rights, citizenship, and constitutionalism. ... `But, establish a common tribunal', Bentham argued, and `the necessity for war no longer follows from a difference of opinion' (Luard 1992: 416). ... war period "believed that a la...

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