In South Africa, segregation took form in what some might call the extreme, as South African law justified it. ... The reason for the actions of the South African government to create this law was to make sure that there would be no unified resistance against the government. 1950 saw the rise of another law that limited the rights of the non-whites. ... Not only was South Africa affected economically, but it was thrown from major international sports competitions as well. ... Although international reactions played important parts in the end of these cruelties, student oriented organizations w...

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Early Monday morning, 21st of March 1960, Africans throughout the nation gathered within their towns at the request of Robert Sobukwe, the PAC leader, to protest against the pass laws. The pass laws demanded that every African carry a passport containing information about their employment, criminal record, residential address and areas they are allowed to be in, to name a few. ... "The Commission finds that the police deliberately opened fire on an unarmed crowd that had gathered peacefully at Sharpeville on 21 March 1960 to protest against the pass laws. ... The people of South Africa have sh...

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The government reacted to internal resistance by passing further repressive laws which caused even more resistance to the apartheid system. ... The repressive laws of the apartheid system introduced and practiced by the white minority National Party government after 1948, certainly made black resistance difficult but not impossible. ... As black resistance grew, the National Party Government took harsh repressive action in the form of violence and new laws. In 1960, the Pan-African Congress leaders organized nationwide peaceful demonstrations against 'pass laws' that restricted indi...

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According to Braun, "from 1998 through 2008, at least 7,445 wild lions were traded internationally with the United States importing a minimum of 4,021 lions. Additionally, 64 percent of the 5,663 wild lions traded internationally for recreational trophy hunting purposes were imported to the united States" (newswatch.nationalgeographic.com). ... Braun points out that there have been efforts by animal welfare groups that include the African lion among the list of endangered species in order to increase its protection by law. In so doing, the African lion is likely to be safe from unpr...

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"In most African countries customary, rather than civil law is still the first resort of most citizens." ( Document 1) Many Africans live in rural areas and are governed by customary law. ... Customary law allows violence against women and women have no say over their bodies. ... Although in many African countries governments establish laws to protect the human rights of its people, these laws are inaccessible to populations that are illiterate and have limited education whereas customary law is very accessible. ... This initiative is vital if customary law is to help fight AIDS. ... The fi...

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Africa is a continent that has strict rules and laws for its citizens. ... These three factors can answer the multitude of the questions that the international community is struggling to answer for a long time as "why is it that in Africa people are always fighting and dying?" ... Still, the World bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot leave the sinking countries to survive on their own, that is why international organizations are subsidizing the governments and the economic activities of the poorest countries in the world. ... The North African's African economies" relatio...

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Human trafficking is "all acts involved in the recruitment, abduction, transport, harboring, transfer, sale or receipt of persons, within national or across international borders, through force, coercion, fraud or deception."... With approximately 20.9 million victims globally and over 800,000 being trafficked internationally yearly, it is an ever expanding problem. ... The Causes International human trafficking can be attributed to many causes, these include; low economic status and a low GDP in affected countries meaning the majority of the population are living in poverty, little political...

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The sources of the Islamic faith are found in the Qur"an (Muslim scripture), the Hadith (teachings of the Prophet Mohammed), the consensus of the entire Islamic community, and the ijihad (Islamic interpretations of Islamic law). ... Rejecting the argument that the practice is promoted by Islam, the court reasoned, "Circumcision is not an individual right under Sharia (Islamic law)... There is nothing in the Qur"an that authorized it (UN, 1994)" The UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, reacting to the Egyptian court decision, stated: "The recognition that female genital mutilation cann...

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Finance minister Amara Konneh says that's mostly because of damage done to mining, agriculture and service industries, as investors evacuate foreign workers, borders close, and international flights are suspended. ... Add to that the high cost of fighting the virus, and the country will run up a big fiscal deficit, even in light of international assistance. ... But of course an outbreak of an epidemic disease, well, those international borders are going to get closed, aren't they? ...

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The United States accused Qaddafi of aiding international terrorists, broke economic ties with Libya in 1986. ... However because of suspected terrorist links and connections with the terrorist bombings of civilian airlines, Libya is still an outcast in the international community. ... In a free election in 1992, the people of Algeria elected to the national legislature a majority of candidates who favored strict Islamic laws and values. ...

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However, Moyo fails to recognize institutions as key aspect to growth in China and East Asia, by instituting property rights, patents and law they were able to create monetary polices which stirred growth within their economies. ... This is the only time in the book she argues in favour of institutions, property rights and rule of law. ... It is better to work with national governments on how to spur growth rather than establishing International Organizations to act in place of national governments. ...

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The national labor laws of the country set the minimum age at 18 for hazardous work; at 16 for 'light underground work," and 12 for light agricultural work. While the Ivorian Ministry of Labor's record on preventing violations of these laws in the formal employment sector is a success, they have not been as effective in the informal sector or in hidden areas, which happen to be where the guilty cocoa farms are located. Meanwhile education laws have not been enforced effectively and therefore contribute to the ease in which children can drift into the employment sector. ... Especial...

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This statement is more apt because many events in international and national history have almost caused the end of the free, democratic world. ... Another example is apartheid and Jim Crow laws. It was an act of obedience that allowed such laws to be rampant not only in the United States, but in Africa as well, causing the almost subsequent end of a free, democratic world...

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Pre-Islamic India was made up primarily of small states ruled from capital cities. The princes paid officials in land, producing limited governments with few functions. Of the functions they did perform, maintaining trading contracts with other Southeast Asian countries was probably most important. ...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their northern or southern affiliations. ... The Afrikaners were a living fallacy in the sense that they thought that they could continually stop the fl...

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France experienced many problems limiting it from taking full advantage of the transatlantic slave trade, between the 16th and 18th centuries there were numerous conflicts both on international and domestic scales in the colonising countries. ... This law was changed in 1698 when British merchants were able to trade African slaves as a "fundamental and natural right"17. ...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, s...

• Word Count: 8649
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate