People for the American Way is a non-profit organization that advocates the rights of the American citizen in terms of political democracy, as well as economic freedom. ... They argue it is the American way, and nobody should take it away from Americans (People for the American Way 65). ... People for the American Way headquarters are in Washington, D.C. ... Some of the infrastructure programs include Young People For, Young Elected Officials Network, and African American Religious Affairs. ... The African American Religious Affairs promotes liberal activism as well as support African American...

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Much of the cocoa beans harvested for -------- come from the rich soils of farms from Ivory Coast, Africa. ... People all around the world try to take as much advantage as they can in Africa which leads to poverty and the African government doesn't take much action on these problems. ... We are excited and humbled by this opportunity to create positive change in West Africa". ... Meanwhile, people in African still suffer the unfair trade labor. ... The discovery of this dark truth in West African, Ivory was reveal thanks to all the reporters who risks their live to be undercover in the ...

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UPR in Africa In 2001 African States along with the Government came together to form a new vision for development which was later known as NEPAD; New Partnership for Africa's Development. Through this new framework the African Union developed a review mechanism (APRM) in 2002 and implemented it in 2003. ... This was a pioneering mechanism executed by the Africans for the Africans, designed to monitor economic growth, sustainable development and political governance. Although not all states participate in this mechanism it can assist in strengthening collective principles amongst the A...

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Through this education, different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. ... Du Bois says that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in American and the islands of the sea,"" (Du Bois 45) . ... During the Reconstruction period, the U.S government passed the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments in order to ensure rights for African Americans. ....

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Burundi did not offer Belgium a market for manufactures, and the region had almost nothing worth extracting for local use or for transport to Europe or America. ... Africa, Ambassador Melady observed, would lose its moral standing in the Third World; the genocide would also undermine black Africa's condemnation of apartheid in South Africa. ... African states, more ethnically heterogeneous than Western European nation-states, exhibited a paranoia about their independence and national security, and African leaders saw malevolent plots by the West against their independence. This misapp...

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PMC were first used in Africa during the 1990's. ... In South AFrica specifically, the PMC threatening the safety and the rights of the citizens and the law. In South America, the PMC DynCorp International was created to prevent the cultivation of illicit narcotics, to shut down illicit drug laboratories and networks, and to train the army and personnel of the country. ...

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Its projected that African-American unemployment rate had climbed from 8.2 % to 11.2 %, which means that four hundred thousand more are without job since President Bush took the office. One out of three African-Americans that are in the work force are unemployed. ... His campaign is about who we are as Americans. His goal is to lead America to a time where it is not enough to protect our own rights under the law, but where it is a duty and an obligation for each of us as Americans to make sure every American is equal under the law. ... Our foreign and military policy must be about the notion o...

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In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Native Americans, the illegal imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the harassment of homosexuals, and other violent acts against minority groups. ... Since Europeans first came to America, Native Americans have been forcibly deprived of their lands and denied civil rights. ... The Americans with Disabilities act of 1990 addressed these problems on the national lever. ... Racial as in the apartheid policy that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 t0 1992; or sexual disc...

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Immediately, America must gain insight as to how terrorist groups can be minimized and at best nullified. ... The American government's objective must continue to involve the delivering of political goods to its citizens. ... And terrorists "are Islamic extremists aggregating in the Middle Eastern and North African regions; devising plans to wreak terror in the lives of innocent people. ... Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with the...

• Word Count: 4300
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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... African-American women took up leadership roles, as previously demonstrated by Baker and Robinson, while white college-aged women started getting involved with the SNCC, especially after Freedom Summer in 1964. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outli...

• Word Count: 2185
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Under the rights for United States citizens stated in the First Amendment of the Constitution, Americans are guaranteed the right to free speech. ... This right to free speech is what protects Americans from being suppressed by the government, while also allowing the people as a whole to have a voice, a voice allowing the people to maintain their own opinions and also influence political and social actions in the United States. When one considers limiting free speech, it is assumed limitations would infringe on American's basic rights and prevent citizens from maintaining their own voic...

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Clandestine and illegal abortions in countries such as Muslim Asia, Latin America and Africa, where abortion remains prohibited or restricted, remain a serious health problem. ... One problem that we already have, is that we cannot feed the population we already have today, and everyday more and more die from starvation, this is especially a problem in developing countries such as Africa. ...

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Forced labor is Universally condemned, However, Forced Labor is Not a new Phenomena but has been going on since ancient Times, the Pharaohs in Egypt Practiced it and many descents of African Origin were compelled to work in Forced Labor and these workers succeed in building many of the Monuments in Egypt Like the famous Pyramid and the Sphinx(Half Lion, Half Human). ... The Inca/Maya Civilization in South America was renowned for such Practices and many Slaves had to work day and night to serve the Kingdom and its ruler under the Yoke of Bondage. ... This trend Still continues in many differe...

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However, in 2003 the rate of participation of Arab women was at six percent, which is lower than the rates in Asia, the Pacific, and sub-Saharan Africa [ESC14]. ... In regards to voting, American women were able to vote in 1920 which is before all of the countries in the Arabic world [our14]. ... A reason could be that American men are less dominant than Arabic men and the women are not assigned the family's honor. ... Libya, which is also in the African continent, had 17,000 domestic violence cases reported in the first 3 months of 2008. ...

• Word Count: 1948
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According to the 'Williams institute' survey, the LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) represent about 1.8% of the American population, representing roughly nine millions Americans. ... The first one, which is the physical one and is way too cold-hearted, mainly takes place in the third world countries (Africa and the middle east). ... One of the major violations happens to take place in the United States of America, the country that claims to be the ' Land of the free', where homosexuals are not permitted to join the military to defend their own country and wha...

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"The (Freedom House) Survey demonstrates that, in addition to in Europe and the Americas, there are free states with varying forms of democracy functioning among people of all races and religions in Africa, the Pacific, and Asia." ...

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Thousands of jobs in America alone have been lost to foreign competition and new technology, and the restructuring of businesses have forced blue-collar, relatively low-wage factory and manufacturing jobs to find new, more specialized work (Video, Philadelphia Story). ... Women of the maquiladoras in Mexico, workers in the sweatshops in Indonesia, and the farmers of Africa have all experienced labor injustice, including incredibly low wages, poor working conditions, harassment at work, long hours, and the threat of losing a job if a labor union or protest is formed. Labor injustice has become ...

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Ideas of John Lock found textual reflection in the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 12 June 1776 which was produced on the North American continent. Further, on 4 July, 1776, the reflection of Lock's position was found in the American Declaration of Independence. ... General Assembly was adopted it on 10 December 1948 by a vote of 48 to none, with eight abstentions (Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, South Africa, USSR, and Yugoslavia). ...

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It is because of this also that many Americans aren't able to recognize this as a problem because they don't realize many other countries around the world do not have such strict regulations. ... They have received help from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan-American health organization which is great but it is help that could easily be placed in other ventures if the country could just be protected from legal trouble for trying to educate and protect their citizens from unnecessary risks. ... Between 1990 and 2009 cigarettes consumption decreased by 26% in Western Eur...

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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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Such events were the rising into power of the United States of America and the success of its Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program which was an effort to rebuild Europe from the ravages of war. It was a theory of development based upon the successes of the West and was prescribed to developing newly-decolonized nation-states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ...

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Language constitutes an area of potential conflict in Europe, Africa and Asia, in countries where language rights are subject to ethnic discrimination and where recognition of their identities is demanded from the state. ... In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... The Naka'ela in Maluku, Indonesia, reportedly decreased in number after moving down from the mountains to a coastal town on Seram Island. 3 Colonization and the introduction of a new language into the territory of a existent cultural group can also put at risk the traditional language, as with th...

• Word Count: 1941
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Maya Angelou's "Graduation" represents the pressure that African-Americans can feel in a biased world which has made it difficult for people of color to push back and fight for their freedoms in our nation's short history. ...

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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 attendanc...

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