Last Updated: Tuesday‚ 18 July 2006‚ 16:36 GMT 17:36 UK E-mail this to a friend | Printable version | | China plan to protect environment | Pollution problems have grown along with China’s economy | China plans to spend 1.4 trillion yuan ($175bn) over the next five years on protecting its environment.The sum - equivalent to 1.5% of China’s annual economic output - will be used to improve water quality‚ and cut air and land pollution and soil erosion.China has some of the world’s most polluted
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHT OF PRIVACY Prasanta Kumar Dey “Civilization is the progress towards a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public ruled by law of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men” - Ayn Rand : The Fountain head‚ 1943. The idea of privacy is as old as Bibalical notion of creation of progenies on earth. Even Adam and Eve tried to hide their nudity with leaves. Privacy is vital to the mental spiritual and physical well
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America proclaims its freedoms and rights of the people to any ear that will listen. Our country is founded on democracy and the free electoral system. Even the United Nations holds a document adopted sixty years ago entitled the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (UDHR) drafted by participating UN countries. According to this document we as human beings are said to have equal rights. Article 3 of the UDHR states “Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person.” (un.org‚ article
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Women’s Rights are Human Rights On September 5‚ 1995‚ Hillary Clinton- the First Lady of the United States- took front stage at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing‚ China to speak on the fleeting struggles women face in every single country. Standing in front of women’s rights activist from over 180 countries‚ Hillary Clinton’s words were as powerful as her prominent political stand she held. Clinton catalogued the devastating truth on the abuse afflicted onto women‚ and then challenging
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Free College for All Amber Bennie comm215 January 12‚ 2015 University of Phoenix Free College for All Who in their right mind wouldn’t want to go to college for free? President Obama is proposing a plan for two free years of community college for anyone and everyone. This plan quite possibly could pave the way for a more fruitful and educated future in America for many reasons. Not everyone agrees with this idea‚ but hopefully Congress does. Once determined how this project will be funded‚ Americans
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make you feel if vulgur words were created to make fun of your sexuality? What if those words were used constantly in regular conversations? The 21st century is all about being yourself. It is about shaving a section of your hair‚ stretching your earlobes‚ and getting tattoos. Being youself is what we are encouraged to do now. What if all of the people who surrounded you on a daily basis were "expressing themselves"‚ meanwhile you can’t even publicly hold hands with the person you want to spend
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public hearings on the gross human rights violations that occurred during the apartheid era. Both victims and perpetrators shared stories at the TRC about violence‚ suffering‚ oppression and torture. Antjie Krog bore witness to these narratives as one of the journalists that reported on the TRC hearings. In her literary work Krog expresses her conflicted feelings towards the past in general and the hearings of the TRC in particular. Her poem “For All Voices‚ For All Victims” was written in response
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Enforceability by Law. For Example: X invites his friend to coffee and the latter accepts the invitation. This is a social agreement not a contract because it does not imply any legal obligation. We can say that: (a) All contracts are agreements‚ (b) But all agreements are not contracts. (a) All Contracts are Agreements For a Contract to be there an agreement is essential; without an agreement‚ there can be no contract. As the saying goes‚ "where there is smoke‚ there is fire; for without fire‚ there
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Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Animal rights is a catchphrase akin to human rights. It involves‚ however‚ a few pitfalls. First‚ animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise‚ they are cuddly cats‚ curly dogs‚ cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that we cannot really lump them together. Moreover: what rights are we talking about? The right to life? The right to be free of pain? The right to food? Except the right to free speech all the other rights could be relevant
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BILL OF RIGHTS: 1ST AMENDMENT The Bill of Rights : it is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms‚ limit the government’s power in judicial and other proceedings‚ and reserve some powers to the states and the public. The First Amendment (Amendment I) : Originally‚ the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However
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