In this case they are informing on the government . ... It is a non-profit, web based organization thats goal is to "bring important news and information to the public .'' ... They claim these government documents are private for a reason . ... Wikileaks simply gives americans access to government information, while the government hasn't lost any power due to these leaks . ... When a popular news data base begins to support these leaks, the government has to realize that what they're doing needs to change . ...

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From what "freewill" should be to the role that governments should play in a society. ... But, according to Hospers, that is exactly what the government does. Hospers implies that governments have been nothing but trouble in the past. ... The government shouldn't be able to lay claim to what you have worked for. ... If he cannot pay, then he is to be released from the hospital since most medical centers are profit based unlike Countries that provide universal medical insurance. ...

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The document's purpose was to spell out the liberties of the people that the government could not infringe upon. ... The Federalists were those who thought that there should be a new Union created with a strong centralized government and individual regional governments. ... Again, this amendment is laying down restrictions on what government has power to do. ... It cannot treat any citizen or group in a biased manner based solely on religious preferences or beliefs. ... This leads in to the right to petition the government. ...

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The economy was household based, and villages were isolated from each other. ... They struck at Watutsi soldiers and civilians in an attempt to overthrow the minority government. ... Government sources erroneously claimed that Bahutus killed more than fifty thousand Watutsis. ... Two dozen Bahutu army officers were executed by orders of the Burundi government. ... The Belgian government agreed with Ambassador Melady's assessment. ...

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Everyone has to make a decision for themselves based on their values, so it does not make a matter or right or wrong. ... In 1973, the court ruled in favor of the right of women to have an abortion based on the Fourteenth amendment. ... As a society we would not want the government putting regulations on what treatments are ordinary or extraordinary. ... From a religious, and government standpoint it is important not to intertwine the beliefs of the two respectively. ... As a society, it is not fair to make laws based off religious interpretations. ...

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Since there is very little precedent in this area of law, the limited case law that already exists would suggest that a challenge based on the right to procreative liberty would probably fail. ... For the most part, our legislative branch of government is already at work preparing to debate this very controversial issue. ... This brings up another point, which would concern the U.S government, especially our legislative branch. ... In most states, specific exceptions are provided for the purpose of scientific research and cell-based therapies. ... So far, the the United State's legi...

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Bangladesh is characterized as a mono-national Bengali state by some, which also becomes more vivid in the remote rural areas, especially when killings based on religion is not an unheard issue. ... In political terms, secularism is a movement towards the separation of religion and government (often termed the separation of church and state). This can refer to reducing ties between a government and a state religion, replacing laws based on scripture (such as the Bible, Torah and Sharia law) with civil laws, and eliminating discrimination on the basis of religion. ... Caste based discrimination...

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This is the problem that desperately needs to be addressed by the Australian government. ... The wording of these statutory provisions is based directly on legislation enacted in England in the nineteenth century: Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. ... The current Beattie government in power in Queensland is a labor government. ... The government does not want to alter or reform abortion laws in fear of losing votes. ... This male dominance in the government makes it hard for feminists to compete at all. ...

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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. ... The communist PKP supported the rebellion; a revolutionary attempt to overthrow government. ... On his first term, he revealed his plans for economic development and government reform. ... He claimed that Martial Law was a prelude to a "New Society", one which was based on new and social political values and void of those which hinder effective modernization. ... There was the establishment of a democratic gover...

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This right is commonly associated with protest and petitioning of the government, but it also applies to legal and peaceful social gatherings (Cornell University). ... By implementing severe restrictions on feeding in public places, the government blatantly restricts the people's freedom of movement. ... For example, no one thinks twice about the local animal shelter soliciting donations outside the neighborhood Walmart, but the government routinely fines and jails the homeless for panhandling. ... Board of Zoning Appeals; Schlueb), local governments continue to enact and enforce anti-f...

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The UK Government ratified the Convention in December 1991. ... In broad terms the UK government is legally bound to follow policies which are in conformity with the general and specific obligations set forth in the UN Convention. It is not, however, open to individual children to bring proceedings before the national courts, based solely on alleged violations of the UN Convention which affect them. ... What is interesting is that the Convention is presented to the world, not as a declaration of intent by the governments of the different countries or as a blueprint for action by United Nati...

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Having an abortion should be legal without any sort of encumbrance upon the federal government, state governments, and the citizens because it should be up to one's personal discretion. ... Wade, it was stated that "The ruling was largely based on the idea that a woman should be able to choose whether or not to bear children and that making such a decision should remain between a woman and her doctor " (Haney 34). Involving the government in this type of decision eliminates the privacy guaranteed to the people by the government. ... Now, there is a gratuitous debate going on which sugge...

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This was bad news for the Governments of the World Mankind must be made more uniformly if THE FUTURE was going to work out It was about the time that someone came up with the idea of TOTAL CRIMINILATION, based on the principle that if we were ALL crooks we could at least be uniform to some degree in the eyes of the law. ... ---Frank Zappa, liner notes from Joe's Garage, Acts 2&3 (CBS, 1979) The first Amendment to the United States Constitution is as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ex...

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Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign human rights internationally recognized, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December, 1948). ... Many revolutionaries made note of the atrocities of governments as evidence that their ideology was necessary to bring an end to the government's abuses. ... They may also observe trials and meet with government officials ("How Does-, 4) The biggest lesson Amnesty has learned, however, was to stick to what ...

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When Fidel's government came into power, there were basic changes in the judicial and political process. ... -based organization that claims to act as a forum for discussing Cuban society, has detailed what it believes are complex variables when analyzing human rights immediately after the revolution.2 During the 1960's violence rose throughout Cuba, known as the "Escambray Rebellion" this came between the Cuban government and armed opponents, but slowly diminished by the early 1970s; after coming to power in 1959, Fidel Castro's government built a highly effective mac...

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My knowledge about the world has always been based on how the United States functions and the rights that are given to everyone and that's including me, a woman. ... The governments, religions and cultures of this country support the inequalities, thus allowing vicious crimes against women to continue without any recourse by the victims. ... "Like all societies on earth, Palestinian society suffers from the problem of violence against girls and women - violence that is based solely on the basis of gender and directed against females. ... (wclac.org) Palestinians believe that many cases a...

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Without this Amendment, a religious minority could be mistreated, the government would set up a religion; protesters could be harmed or jailed and the press would not be able to bring us facts about the government. ... People who spoke against the government either bowed to the pressure or were punished because of this act. ... Reparations were given to its victims, based on the opinion that they were coherent to the beliefs of the founding fathers and the first amendment. ... The Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making a state-wide religion. ... The Free Exercise Clause sto...

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Without this Amendment, a religious minority could be mistreated, the government would set up a religion; protesters could be harmed or jailed and the press would not be able to bring us facts about the government. ... Reparations were given to its victims, based on the opinion that they were coherent to the beliefs of the founding fathers and the first amendment. ... The Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making a statewide religion. ... The Free Exercise Clause stops the government from interfering with a person's religion. ... The government can stop people from associ...

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In this paper the success of democratization will be measured by the sum of the level of inclusion and governmental accountability achieved. ... Nevertheless, the attitude of the demos towards democracy greatly depends on the quality of governmental accountability. ... Vertical without horizontal accountability only creates disaffection with the government or the regime. ... In both cases the commitment to uphold the rule of law is what creates a strong governmental accountability. (O'Donnell, 1998) Overall, the three countries will be placed on the comparative democratization scale based...

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Hence, there are certain rights to which all humans are privileged to, based on nothing more than their common humanity. ... Such rights consequently do not depend on governments for their existence; however, they do depend on governments for their enforcement. Governments receive their power from the people, and if the people feel their government is negligent in their service, it is the people's right to change it. ... In this way, the government was constantly beholden to their populace for their existence. ... Yet voter turnout, our one form of expression about our government, conti...

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Does the government have the right to deny him thus? The purpose of the United States government is to protect the natural-born rights of human beings. Many times over, people have had their rights denied protection from the government. ... Government is created in societies to enforce rules and protect the public from being repressed of their rights. ... Natural rights are based off of our instincts; it is impossible for any human being to simply ignore instinct. ...

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In a Race to the Bottom, investors and corporations become "flying geese," (Section 20 Nov. 2002) continually moving from country to country in search of the cheapest labor and most lenient government policies on environment and labor. ... The WTO has even ruled that it is illegal for a government to ban a product based on the way it is produced and that governments cannot take into account non-commercial values, such as human rights and the behavior of companies, when making purchase decisions (Top Ten Reasons, 1). ... Most importantly, the cosmopolitan view has led to a "universal political ...

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The emergence of human rights debate can be seen as a 'Western' response to 'Western' conflict, which sought to see an end to such violations and acts of violence toward human beings, at the hands of their governments but also at an individual, civil level. ... In their book Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives, Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab (1979) present a view of the UDHR which asserts that it is based upon only one interpretation of human rights, and that interpretation is 'Western'. ... To conceptualise the idea of 'human' a g...

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This decision was based on an implied right to personal privacy, emanating from the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. ... The federal government should remain true to its legalization of abortion since the 1973 case of Roe vs. ... The implication of the legislation is that women would be forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will based on religious doctrine dictating that life begins at conception. ... The government, whether on a federal level or on a state level, should not have the power to ban abortion. ...

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The arguments against sanctions in Iraq are not based in the military issues or the problems of peacekeeping, but instead in claims that the continued actions in Iraq violate humanitarian principles (Gordon 18). ... Charter was based in the commitment to peacekeeping efforts and were based in the belief that by crippling the economy of Iraq, it would be possible to bring Saddam Hussein into complicity with U. ... Voices in the Wilderness, an antisanctions activist group based in Chicago, has used the figure of 1 million children dead from the sanctions; the Iraqi government claims 4,000-...

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