Poppy seed is an ancient spice; the seed capsules have been found in Switzerland in the remains of prehistoric lake dwellings. The centre of origin of Poppy is the Western Mediterranean region of Europe and is cultivated in India‚ Russia‚ Egypt‚ Yugoslavia‚ Poland‚ Germany‚ the Netherlands‚ China‚ Japan‚ Argentina‚ Spain‚ Bulgaria‚ Hungary‚ and Portugal for its legal pharmaceutical use. It is also grown illegally for the narcotic trade in Burma‚ Thailand and Laos (Golden Triangle) and Afghanistan
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have conducted over 35 peacekeeping missions providing security and reducing armed conflict. In 1988‚ the U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The U.N. has also set up war crimes tribunals to try war criminals in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The U.N. has also made great strides in raising the consciousness of human rights beginning with the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” adopted by the General Assembly in 1948. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights through its investigations
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Albanese‚ 2011). The Foca rape case verdict in February 2001 was the first time that individuals were convicted for rape as a crime against humanity. The Foca rape case was prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (the ICTY) in an effort to bring to justice those responsible for crimes against humanity in the war in Bosnia. Prior to the Foca rape case no one had ever been convicted of rape as a crime against humanity. Rape causes serious bodily or mental
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Before the war‚ it was one of the leading countries‚ and after the war- it was the destroyed country. Secondly‚ the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ "the prison of nations"‚ collapsed‚ and a number of independent states appeared: Hungary‚ Czechoslovakia‚ Yugoslavia‚ Poland. Thirdly‚ Britain and France had the leading position in Western Europe after the war. Fourthly‚ a gradual US involvement in European affairs‚ claimed the leadership position‚ playing the role of the global lender. Fifthly‚ the emergence
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How and why was Germany allowed to annex Austria and the Sudentenland? Was there any justifcation for Britain and France’s policy of appeasement? France and Britain worked out an agreement to appease Germany. These lands had been taken away from Germany through the Treaty of Versailles. Millions of Germans were living in these countires and were showing signs that they wanted to be under German rule. Britain also felt that Hitler was up to something and wanted to appease Germany by letting Hitler
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The Role of United Nations in Peace Movement Date of submission: April 13‚ 2010 Serial no. Contents: Page no. 1. Abstract 03 2. Introduction 04 3. Peace movement 05 3.1 Types of peace movement 06 3.2 Transformations of peace movement 06 3.3 Objectives of peace movement 07 4. Systems of United Nations 07 4.1 Purposes and principles of United Nations
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The basic causes of World War II were nationalistic tensions‚ unresolved issues‚ and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe‚ plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The culmination of events that led to the outbreak of war are generally understood to be the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the 1937 invasion of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan. These military aggressions were the decisions made by authoritarian ruling
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WWII period has had very few if any positive results and only in the post colonial period. Since then nationalism (especially fueled by religion) has been the principal cause of all the greatest slaughters since WWII: Korea‚ Vietnam‚ Iraq-Iran War‚ Yugoslavia and
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war. Protocol I is concerned with international wars‚ while Protocol II addresses high intensity non -international wars‚ mostly civil wars‚ such as in El Salvador from the late 1970s to early 80s‚ and at least some of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It has become internationally accepted that there must be constraints during war. IHL prohibits those actions which go beyond what is necessary to achieve military objectives‚ or that make it more difficult to keep peace
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