The Sarbanes- Oxley Act Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The U.S. nonprofit sector consisting of 1.8 million organizations employs 7% of the whole U.S. workforce. ... The 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act', also known as the Sarbanes- Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted in 2002. ... Also included in the Sarbanes- Oxley Act are new auditor responsibilities. ... Certified financial statements are another aspect of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act. ... The act wants to achieve that financial statements are understood and provide a veridical...

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The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Joint Select Committee majority report were responses to an escalating civil unrest during the Reconstruction Period of the United States. ... The Ku Klux Klan Act and the Joint Select Committee's majority report can be seen as succeeding "in suppressing the Klan's activities in those regions where it was enforced."" ... The act "established federal criminal penalties for individuals conspiring to deprive a class of persons equal protection of law " and gave the President the right to "employ armed forces for enforcement. ... The Ku Klux Klan Act ...

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This was all happening before president Obama designed The Affordable Care Act. ... Obama's Affordable Care Act saves lives. ... March 23, 2010 was considered a historical event; this was the day president Obama signed what is considered to be the very first United comprehensive health care reform bill, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Connors and Gostin, 2010, p. 2522). ... Connors and Gostin stated that that The Affordable Care Act was the first act of its kind to have such a great impact on saving people's lives. ... This could be true but the benef...

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Introduction There are many health risks associated with playing sport, whether young or old. Most people involved in sport, whether participating or organising, are aware of some of the risks such as risk of injury, risk of pressure and stress and most of these are openly recognised by all invol...

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It also examines the introduction of schemes such as child protection conferences and child protection plans and evaluates the improvements to child protection brought by these schemes. ... The Review of Child Protection has also recommended extensive changes to the day-to-day delivery of child protection services. ... It is the term that has replaced the term Child Protection. ... Lyon (2002) states that harm is defined by Section 31 of the Children Act 1989 as meaning "ill treatment or the impairment of health or development." ... This has led to the demise of child protection systems and ...

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) The rights of handicapped persons to enjoy equal employment opportunities were established on the federal level with the enactment of the "Rehabilitation Act of 1973" (29 U.S.C. 701-794). ... The Rehabilitation Act provided three sections (sections 501,503,504) that prevented discrimination in employment. ... The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, which is estimated to cover over, 43 million Americans with disabilities, went into full effect in January of 1992. ... The EEOC is responsible for enforcing the "employment provisions of...

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Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of "original works of authorship- including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly. ... Trade secret protection is very limited. ... How Piracy Impacts You (Effect on society...

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CONTU concluded that while copyright protection should extend beyond the literal source code of a computer program, evolving case law should determine the extent of protection. ... The CONTU report resulted in the 1980 Computer Software Act, and the report acts as informal legislative history to aid the courts in interpreting the Act. In 1980, the Copyright Act was amended to explicitly include computer programs. ... The Software Rental Amendments Act was approved in 1990. ... Another amendment to the Copyright Act was passed in 1992. ...

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INTRODUCTION "The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community has both positive and negative implications - while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override community values and standards subjecting them to whatever more may or may not be found online .... The Internet is a challenge to sovereignty of civilized communities, states and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent behaviour."" Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will ...

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Governments are created as a means to establish rules and laws as a guide to solving conflicts, and for the protection of the citizen's liberty and security. ... Individuals must take responsibility for the continued protection of their rights through political participation. This paper will argue that the concept of majority rule can be reconciled with respect to individual rights for the following reasons: how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within the Constitution Act protects individual rights from majority rule, and how citizen participation can ensure preserving the protection ...

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Also, in 1937, Congress passed the Federal Aide and Wildlife Restoration Act which provides additional funding for the state wildlife management. It has been through three generations of experiments and education of master wildlife professionals, which proves the act works just as well as it did when the act was first written. ... RMEF may provide funding to state or federal agencies or another non-profit organization to assist them with their wildlife habitat protection or public access efforts. ... Donating land for conservation purposes is one of the finest things a person can do to ensure...

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CHRONOLOGY OF EU'S HISTORY(more at http://www.eurunion.org) 1952 Six countries - Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - create the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) by pooling their coal and steel resources in a common market controlled by an independent supranational authority. 1958 The Rome Treaties set up the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), extending the common market for coal and steel to all economic sectors in the member countries. 1973 The United Kingdom, Ireland, and ...

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Back then, adverse possession was obtained through the indirect effect of the Limitation Act 1980. ... Under the Land Registration Act 1925 (LRA 1925), adverse possession claims are similar to unregistered land standards. Sections 15 and 17 of the Limitation Act 1980 still apply today. ... When LRA 2002 was enacted, the Law Commission saw this as an opportunity to give registered estate owners better protection. ... In Red House Farms Ltd v Catchpole where shooting wildfowl was held to be sufficient as an act of possession. ...

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Walls were built out of stone for the best protection and some spanned around a city or around a whole country. ... New forms of technology are used by Customs and Border Protection to screen more passengers, vehicles, products, and people crossing into the United States. ... This was Arizona trying to stand up for the people and listen to what the state was saying and taking action when the federal government would not act. ... It is the job of The Department of Homeland Security to take care of problems of illegal entry into the United States with Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Cus...

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(McLeod, J. 2008) The humanistic approach has had a considerable influence on the practice of counselling and promotes the idea that humans have free will to choose how they act and behave and also recognises a person as having their own needs as an individual. ...

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Does anyone act without considering their political, religious or ideological consciousness? ... Part 3 of the Terrorism Act addresses the issue of "terrorist property" and what the government is to do with it. ... (Terrorism Act 2000) Does this definition not seem familiar? ... The final section of The Terrorism Act 2000 that must be discussed is Part 5, entitled "Counter-Terrorist Powers." ... The Anti-Terrorism, Crime, and Security Act 2001 is basically an extension of the Terrorism Act 2000 with more focus on religious and immigration reforms, along with enhanced aviation security as wel...

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Regulations exist under some federal water- related legislation, for example the Fisheries Act, and the International River Improvements Act. ... The Canadian Environmental Protection Act will regulate substances that are harmful to the environment. ... The federal government in recognizing the need for better environmental management passed the Canada Water Act in 1970. ... A summary of agreements can be found in the Canada Water Act Annual Report. ... Legislation, water resource management from the provincial and federal governments as mention in the constitution act. 5. ...

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According to the section three of 'Children Act' (1989), which is "parental responsibility", indicates that rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority of a child belongs to the parents. ... Moreover, according to the "Family law reform act" (1969) section (8) it indicates that a minor cannot be granted the autonomy of consent for any medical procedure. This suggests that a registered nurse could carried out a treatment without consent from the minor in an emergency situation or in accordance with Mental 'Health Act' (1983) once it is of her...

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In recent years, the topic of copyright protection and anti-piracy measures has been a hot button issue inside the legislative forums of the United States. One product of this trend is the DCMA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it allows for easy takedown of content by way of claim-filing and investigations (Broes). ... A report released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance meant to establish that copyright industries are valuable enough to merit government protection instead painted a picture of economic well-being (Sanchez). ... SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (...

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As we have already mentioned, there is a system in place with personal computers, and it is reasonable to assume that this template will offer some protection. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is our most observable example of a system in place. ... Instead, copyright protection is limited to the artistic features that can stand alone – assuming there are copyrightable features that can stand alone. ...

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As we have already mentioned, there is a system in place with personal computers, and it is reasonable to assume that this template will offer some protection. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is our most observable example of a system in place. ... Instead, copyright protection is limited to the artistic features that can stand alone – assuming there are copyrightable features that can stand alone Essentially what this means is that a chair or paperweight is not a novel idea that can be protected. ...

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It dates from creation of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission in 1948 and includes further more major legislation such as Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980. ... These matters are dealt with in Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relation Act 1976, Employment Protection Act 1978, Health and Safety at W...

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The Vision of a Sustainable Society The Rio Conference on the Environment (1992) will live on in mankind's history as the occasion which put an end to obsession with economic development. That "development" was no more than misrepresented growth of wealth along with a corresponding frantic squand...

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Therefore, even with coordination at a multilateral level to ensure states offer the same standards of protection to refugees, there are no binding norms on burden-sharing to ensure that states contribute to supporting protection and durable solutions for refugees who are on the territory of another state. Among refugees, there are Asylum seekers who have left their homeland in seeking international protection but whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. National asylum systems are there to decide which asylum-seekers actually qualify for international protection. Those judg...

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There is some dissimilarity in the words in the codes concerning the question of whether public well-being and protection should be held supreme above all other apprehensions an contemplations. ... A few codes do not deal with this issue expressly, as an alternative they assume the position that other, more wide-ranging code commitments to the public well-being and protection attend to environmental questions. ... The ASCE code of ethics underlines duties for an engineer to use judgment to overrule endangerment of sustainable development, to seek opportunities for protection of environment a...

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