... Federal Wiretapping Act prohibits employers from deliberately eavesdropping on employee's personal telephone conversation. Video monitoring is illegal, however, can easily be justified as security monitoring at the workplace. Drug testing is legal, however, testing is designed to detect and punish conduct that is usually engaged in off-duty and off the employer's premises; that is, in private. ... Such inspections must be limited while on company property. 7. Computer monitoring - Employers own the computer networking equipment at work, therefore, maintain the right to monitor all comput...

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... them in their places for profit. This assertion implies that civil liberties of working class Americans are being violated today, as it is evident through the constant surveillance, unwarranted drug testing, and discrimination of employees in low-wage corporations. This assertion by Ehrenreich is generally valid because in 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union received more complaints about workplace ... the duty or right of the employer to intervene with their employees' personal matters. There has been a recent manifestation of a national trend requiring employees and other personn...

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... "When an adult, either a woman or a man, states that they are not ready or interested in having a child, it might have a disproportionate future implication. There are several cases of depression, drug and alcohol abuse, self-mutilation, psychosis, and finally suicide, among people who know they were unwanted babies. Several parents even say that openly to their children, causing disproportional trauma and ... ...

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... is leading to an HIV epidemic.(Berezow 2014) Similarly, the human trafficking is just as much against human rights as the many forced abortions that are currently happening. The Huffington Post article, "Chinese Mother Forced Into Abortion At 6 Months Because Of Nation's One-Child Rule," tells the story of Liu Xinwen, one of many, who was forced by Chinese ... authorities to have an abortion. (Sieczkowski, 2013) They took her from her home and gave her a drug that induces abortions which is clearly a violation of basic human rights. This is a problem that is occurring everyday that is b...

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... has been increasing research into mental health outcomes associated with induced abortion. The trauma may sink into the woman's unconscious but it is not harmless and casual. These outcomes include depression, anxiety, substance abuse, suicidal behavior, and self-harm. Sate policies of abortion laws should be more restricted towards women, who are about to have an induced abortion, because mentally healthy ... woman put themselves at a risk to suffer from post abortion psychological trauma. Research going back to 1957, in many countries, where abortion is legal has shown a clear connect...

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... that Earl Washington could not have been the killer due to a disparity in DNA samples. At that time, Washington agreed that he was not the killer, and he received a full pardon from the courts and the state of Virginia. The implications of these disparities in the prosecution of the mentally retarded demonstrate that the condition of the mentally retarded individual is ... ...

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... than between, states. The United Nations has therefore reshaped and enhanced the range of instruments at its command, emphasizing conflict prevention, continually adapting peacekeeping operations, involving regional organizations, and strengthening post-conflict peace-building. To deal with civil conflicts, the Security Council has authorized complex and innovative peacekeeping operations. In El Salvador and Guatemala, in Cambodia and in Mozambique, the UN ... and reduce poverty. UN agencies define the standards for safe and efficient air travel and help improve telecommunications and e...

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... delivery. It also includes prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections including HIV and Aids as well as cervical cancer, safe and accessible post-abortion care and legal access to safe abortion services. Sexual health information, education and counseling to enhance personal relationships and quality of life ... the child is equally stampeded on. A shred of hope is the fact that in 2012 public health Institutions were instructed to care for post-abortion patients without handing them over to the police. This is a most welcome development which has ensured access to heal...

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... War on Drugs In 1999 President Clinton launched the largest and most elaborate attack on drugs since the War on Drugs began with President Nixon in 1971. In response to drug abuse and addiction in the United States, the government is trying to restrict the supply from abroad, thereby raising street prices enough to reduce domestic demand. As Columbia is the ... . The profit made from growing cocoa is so high that farmers are willing take the risk of having their fields destroyed. Instead of finding a new more effective way to control drug supply The United States has found a new chemical...

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... one that has been of large debate over many years. Numerous studies indicate that depression is one of the most commonly encountered psychiatric illnesses in primary care settings. Yet, depression consistently goes undetected and undiagnosed by non psychiatrically trained primary care physicians. Noting the well-studied link between depression and suicide, it is necessary to question giving sole responsibility of assisting patients in ... life treatment decisions to these physicians. In my opinion I see nothing wrong with physician assisted suicide when the person is dying of an illness...

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... " (Ivey, 2009). In "Surviving the Dragnet: 'special interest' detainees in the US after 9/11," Shubh Mathur (2006) reports several cases of violence exhibited on Muslims during the post 9/11 sweeps. Meghana Nayak (2006) documents the "racialized and gendered violence" of George Bush's US administration. While there has been a lot of research on suspect communities being targeted ... an animal or simply a thing, and not recognizing the human's capacity to suffer. Demonizing is treating and impersonating someone as if they are a demon and evil. Orientalism was very common post 9/11. T...

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... . Consequently, the New Social Movements raise the issue of self-defense of the community and society against the increasing expansion of the state apparatuses. Central to these struggles is for a post bourgeois, post-patriarchal, and democratic civil society. One needs to recognize that New Social Movements are not for anarchy; they instead call for a just and dignified condition for the conception, birth ... take shape is the awareness of entering into a new type of social life. It is with the decay of the industrial society, its cultural representation and the beginning of the post in...

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... raped her. Libyan officials quickly dragged her from the hotel, but her message had been received. Journalists quickly took up a "Free al-Obeidy" campaign and pressed for answers (The Huffington Post). Since then, al-Obeidy's story surfaced in an audio interview with Anderson Cooper last month. She claimed she was abducted at a government checkpoint and held for days while officials bound ... , beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya ...

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... you really are (BuzzFeedVideo, 2014). The supporting claims can be found in the internet in the more recent research articles, one example of which is an article in the Huffington Post, "Doutzen Kroes: Even I'm Not A Sample Size In Real Life", where this Victoria's Secret model Doutzen Kroes herself is saying that she doesn't have some particular qualities that are ... being amplified in the tabloids and magazines (Huffington Post, 2013). No human being would like himself or herself to be "poked and prodded" to look a certain way just to please consumers so that certain products or serv...

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... : intervention to insist upon the payment of debts, to protect nationals or their property, to ensure for one's nationals minimum standards of western justice. (Kaplan and Katzenbach, p. 701). During the post-World War II era, the competition and balance of power between the two leading bloc nations --the United States and the Soviet Union -- reduced the likelihood of direct intervention in ... act within the territory of other states, and although during the Cold War the norms prohibiting intervention helped to prevent direct conflict between the Superpowers. There also arose during the...

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... : intervention to insist upon the payment of debts, to protect nationals or their property, to ensure for one's nationals minimum standards of western justice. (Kaplan and Katzenbach, p. 701). During the post-World War II era, the competition and balance of power between the two leading bloc nations --the United States and the Soviet Union -- reduced the likelihood of direct intervention in ... act within the territory of other states, and although during the Cold War the norms prohibiting intervention helped to prevent direct conflict between the Superpowers. There also arose during the...

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... as a case of violence against women. This procedure is performed by midwifes, a tribal practitioners, or a doctor and typically without any anesthesia or post-op care. This causes many harmful effects to the women or girl with medical problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological problems, loss of sexual satisfaction, pain that can last a lifetime. Research shows that disadvantages linked to gender and race ... ...

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... , her supervisors have the moral responsibility for restraining anyone who tries to prevent her from exercising her rights. I personally do not accepts the defense that the workers have a right to post pictures of this form in the workplace. The presence of calendars magazines, pictures, graffiti, and other visual displays of nude women in the workplace serve as a stimulus for harassment and ... they place themselves. Therefore, if in a sexual environment, the people begin to act in sexual ways. Although JSI did give out many of the pictures and granted employees permission to post them,...

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... is a far more expensive system than one whose maximum penalty is life in prison. The greatest costs of the death penalty are incurred prior to and at trial, not in post-conviction proceedings. In Texas, for example, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about 3 times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for ... 40 years. In Florida, each execution costs the state $3.2 million, compared to $600,000 for life imprisonment. Even if all post-conviction proceedings were abolished, the death penalty system would still be more expensive...

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... minister - in a position which no male politician would agree to accept (Kanopyanova 2000: 343). A high level of education does not guarantee promotion of female-specialists. If every second man with a post-secondary or specialized secondary education is a manager at some level or another, then among women with the same education the proportion is only one in every fifteen. As the source ... .3% in 1999 to 9.6% in 2001. And at present there is only one female minister although women comprise the overwhelming majority in state administrative bodies, and a large number of women have post-s...

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... human health and can help scientists understand certain diseases. By expanding scientists' knowledge about diseases, can help researchers create a cure and benefit humans from that disease. Also by testing the drug on animals, it helps ensure the safety of the drugs and many other substances that humans use regularly. By viewing the side effects of the drugs then scientist can tell ... if the drug is safe for humans to use regularly. Human lives are saved by animal experimentations. The main reason for animal research to be continued is that it is beneficial to humans ... ...

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... and does not disclosed them to the participants which may result in disabling injury or death (Haber, 2011). This violation can be illustrated by a study done by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Human Gene Therapy. This was a study of experimental treatment in which normal genes containing an adenoviral vector (a family of DNA viruses ... organ failure. The research participant's right was violated due to the researcher knowing of the severe side effect of inflammation of the liver and not report it to Food and Drug Administration. T...

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... believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after an abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression . In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born into a life of suffering . They ... economics, the pro-life activists believe that having an abortion due to financial reasons, is ridiculous. Because, it doesn't mean that the child will have a life full of isolation and depression. The pro-life activists a...

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... Rights Court and Commission. Currently, problems with the human rights system stem from the fact that not all nations have complied with the programs. The combating of illicit drugs and drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere is by far one of the more important issues that the OAS currently handles. The OAS has made advancements with 1996's Antidrug Strategy and the ... Second Summit of the Americas, both of which have advocated strongly for giving an abundance of attention to the drug problem. Problems with illicit drugs affect every aspect of the societies in the Western Hemisphere...

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... . Following the Opium Wars in China (1839-1842, 1858-1860), the British forced the Chinese to open their markets to the opium trade. As trade legalized, and addiction to the drug rose through China and Southeast Asia, opium production in China rose, especially in the western provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan. Following the chaos of the Panthay Rebellion, Panthays (Yunnanese Muslims ... . Since the beginning of the SLORC era and the collapse of Burmese communism in 1988, no government has supported the Shan armies; they each have made commitments to eliminating the drug trade and reestablish...

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