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    Human Rights Act

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    The Human Right Act 1998 is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 9 November 1998‚ and mostly came into force on 2 October 2000.It’s aim is to “give further effect” in UK law to the right contained in the European Convention on Human Right. The Act makes available in UK courts a remedy for breach of a Convention right‚ without the need to go to the European Court of Human Right in Strasbourg. It also totally abolished the death penalty in UK law although this was

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    the administration processes‚ brought into force the Right to Information Act on October 12th‚ 2005. As per the Parliament of India‚ the purpose of the RTI Act is ‘to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens’[i]. The Act applies to all the states and union territories of India‚ except Jammu and Kashmir. The Act is applicable to all constitutional authorities – any institution or body constituted by an act of Parliament or state legislature – including the executive

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    Right to Education Act What is the act about? * Every child between the ages of 6 to 14 years has the right to free and compulsory education. This is stated as per the 86th Constitution Amendment Act added Article 21A. The right to education act seeks to give effect to this amendment * The government schools shall provide free education to all the children and the schools will be managed by school management committees (SMC). Private schools shall admit at least 25% of the children in their

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    Rights To Education Rights to Edcuation The importance of learning is to enable the individual to put his potentials to optimal use. Education makes man a right thinker and a correct decision-maker. It achieves this by bringing him knowledge from the external world‚ teaching him to reason and acquainting him with past history‚ so that he can be a better judge of the present. With education‚ he finds himself in a room with all its windows open to the outside world. A well educated man is a more dependable

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    stronger voting writes. When it came time to pass the voting rights act‚ in 1965‚ there were 6 African­American members of the US House of Representative and no one in the US senate. By 1971 there were 13 African­Americans in the house and one who was apart if the US senate. After this act passed the 15th amendment ratified in 1970 prohibiting the state from denying any males vote based on their race‚ color‚ or previous condition of servitude. During the Civil Rights act many voting rights activists

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    * Human rights act (1998) * Disability discrimination act(1995) * Sex discrimination act (1975) * Protection of children act(1999) * Health and safety at work act (1974) * (COSHH) control of substances hazardous to health regulations(2002) * Data protection act (1998) Human rights act(1998)-human right gives you the right to live to certain freedoms on what you can say and do anyone in uk has to respect theses rules cannot be gone against as its a law. Human right gives you

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    Right to Information Act

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    BATCH: 2010-2012/FW/B5 SUBJECT: LEGAL SYSTEM TOPIC: RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT PROVIDES A TOOL TO IMPROVE TRANSPERANCY & VALUE-ADDED PRACTISES IN PUBLIC DOMAIN SUBMITTED ON: November 7‚ 2010 SUBMITTED TO: INDEX SR. NO. | TOPIC | PAGE NO. | 1 | INTRODUCTION | 3 | 2 | RTI & THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE | 5 | 3 | THE 3-STAGE REGIME FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION | 7 | 4 | HOW A CITIZEN SHOULD GO ABOUT EXERCISING HIS/HER RIGHT TO INFORMATION | 7 | 5 | A FEW USEFUL TIPS WHEN FRAMING

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    About Right to Information 1) This Act may be called the Right to Information Act‚ 2005. 2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. 3) The provisions of sub-section (1) of section 4‚ sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5‚ sections 12‚ 13‚ 15‚16‚ 24 ‚ 27 and 28 shall come into force at once‚ and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on the one hundred and twentieth day of its enactment. When does it come into force

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    Essay On The Movie Selma

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    After watching the extraordinary movie “Selma” i have nothing but positive feedback. This movie touched base on how hard and how awful segregation was in Selma‚ Alabama. The issue that was focused on was on how blacks weren’t able to vote because of how limiting the system was. This is a true story‚ and it really opened my mind on the topic of segregation. It was also focused on MLK Jr. and the courageous movement he led. His movement consisted of non-violent protest and inspirational meetings amongst

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    voting

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    07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual

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