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  • people -- in this case, using a racial minority for experimental purposes in such a way that disregards their basic human rights and dignity ...
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  • socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group solidarity and political action. It is especially ...
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  • Sinhalese policies alienated the Tamil minority, resulting in a bloody civil ... campaign by part of the country's minority Tamil population who were ...
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  • to provide some protection for the civil rights of the newly-freed slaves ... the ELR had denied him his constitutional rights under the Thirteenth and ...
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  • of the leaders of the non-violent civil rights movement in Northern Ireland ... Hume became a leading figure in the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s ...
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  • available to those distinguished by their minority or under-represented status ... as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights noted, any such action, instituted ...
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  • whatever their form, are run by a small minority of members of society, and ... whatever their form, are run by a small minority of members of society. From ...
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  • for slavery, nullification, and the rights of electoral minorities, ... and articulate argument in defense of minority rights became the legal basis ...
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  • of citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others or the interests ... of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole ...
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  • occurs in the native language and a minority language with varying amounts ... education in the 1960s, with the civil rights movements, witnessed a renewed ...
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  • faith while generally respecting the rights of unbelievers, and this ... Church Fathers such as Origen were in the minority in teaching a universal ...
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  • gave imperial subjects a series of new rights. That year, Austria united ... intermediate position between the Liberal minority of the party that advocated ...
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  • is Christianity. When it began, it was a minority system of beliefs and controversial ... issue as crucial to international human rights law. Limiting the definition ...
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  • ===Declaration of the Rights of the Child=== The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was drafted by Eglantyne ...
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  • in reconciling the needs of the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority after ... percent Hutu, dominated by a small Tutsi minority. Burundi gained its independence ...
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  • individuals or groups of people from minority races. Much later, the term ... in response to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King ...
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  • was a strong advocate for children's rights, leading to her appointment ... abolitionist and a supporter of women’s rights. Inevitably, he influenced ...
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  • Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... of the individual, salvation, and human rights became important themes in ...
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  • male line died out, but renounced his rights in 1851 in favor of his sister ... of Independence, monarchists were a minority in the Finnish Eduskunta ...
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  • in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007 ... In 2001, Pelosi was elected the House Minority Whip, second-in-command ...
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  • connected with the protection of certain minority groups or protected classes ... These microagressions are whatever minority groups find offensive ...
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  • terminating Korea's diplomatic rights. In the early twentieth century ... jurisdiction and law, and demanded rights to patrol and police the ...
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  • (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered ... (secret) articles dealing with Protestant rights and obligations. For example ...
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  • *Overrepresentation of minority youths: States must systematically ... juvenile surrenders certain constitutional rights, such as a right to trial ...
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  • is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] ... in all women was at odds with the minority-rights framework of the Gay ...
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  • In 1979, the government confirmed the rights and privileges of the ... the Miao and Dong languages of two other minority nationalities. Because of ...
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  • South Africa finally forced the white minority to grant political and human ... Civic Society, fought for workers' rights. * Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • In 1888 British imperialist Cecil Rhodes extracted mining rights from ... Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the white minority government, led by Ian Smith ...
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  • Rights entitle one to perform certain acts (or be in certain states ... Rights can be considered to guide behavior, to give normative direction ...
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  • Party promising to review the Human Rights Act 1998. This law, which absorbs the European Convention on Human Rights into ...
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  • forced segregation, violation of voting rights, and even terrorism. The ... and biology, however, these were minority positions until the mid ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... *Minority rights *Bloody Sunday - 1972, Northern Ireland ...
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  • of other options to give the Muslim minority in India adequate protection ... Although the Indian constitution provides equal rights to all citizens ...
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  • later became the United States Bill of Rights. The whole series is cited ... later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a bill ...
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  • to impose cultural homogeneity on all minority groups within a country ... the mass media, outside campaigns by human rights organizations, and diplomatic ...
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  • along racial lines. Laws limiting the rights to property, marriage, and ... aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens," ...
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  • to free itself from Rhodesia and white minority rule. For his efforts, Kaunda ... by UNIP of collaboration with the white minority governments. ...
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  • in favor of free speech and other human rights as well as aid for the lower classes. He declared that the Arab nationalist state that he wanted ...
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  • of the Interior. Fall then leased the rights of the oil to Harry F. Sinclair ... investigation panel's most junior minority member, Montana Democrat ...
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  • Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He participated ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...
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  • Humphrey was strongly committed to achieving civil rights for all ... federal government should guarantee civil rights for non-whites and southern ...
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  • women's suffrage, Labor union rights, and equal civil rights for ... as a leader of the small anti-slavery minority. He advocated the Homestead ...
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  • RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ... Kennedy a seat on the Committee as minority counsel, he promptly accepted ...
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  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ... one religion or a group of religions over minority religions and non-believers. ...
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  • cities. Between 1954 and 1968, the Civil Rights Movement sought to abolish ... Since the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans have improved their ...
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  • that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa ... the only Africans who had had voting rights—those in Cape Province; ...
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  • brethren. The substantial Orthodox Jewish minority is placed in the position ... in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the ...
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  • was appointed head of Egypt's human rights commission in 2003, established ... to discuss international law, human rights, economic and social development ...
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  • Unlike many other provisions of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court ... the grand jury's work; there is no minority report. Each published report ...
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  • Human rights monitoring organizations and political analysts in several ... doctrine. North Korea has no national minority policy. This stands in contrast ...
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  • constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis ... ==== Civil Rights Era ==== Liberalism implicitly accepted that the ...
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  • had issues with the curtailment of human rights under the nation's authoritarian ... stagnation, and the curtailment of human rights. Tashkent has been the target ...
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  • they also work to protect the human rights of all people within their ... article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Under ...
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  • This minority anticipated that the Nazi dictatorship would be replaced ... Secretariat, which suspended their voting rights. Both sides claimed they ...
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  • of 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. ... a U.S. Senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He later moderated ...
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  • failed to provide them many of the civil rights that were enjoyed by white ... until the passage of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, it ...
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  • ideals about governance and people's rights, which clashed with existing ... Hong Xiuquan (a member of the Hakka minority). The sect's militarism ...
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  • been slowly deteriorating and their human rights are regularly violated. ... == Human rights == The religious freedom of Egypt's Coptic community ...
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  • a majority party in government, and a minority party in opposition. The ... The positions of majority leader and minority leader were created in 1899 ...
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  • attempt of the Americo-Liberian minority to dominate people whom ... Liberians and the Americo-Liberian minority to come together, but it ...
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  • African Americans, through the Civil Rights Movement to a time when United ... on attracting African American and other minority students comes from Howard ...
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  • France granted some political rights to people in the major trading ... #039;s commitment to democracy and human rights strengthened. Diouf served ...
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  • calls for self-government and civil rights. A nationalist political ... ethnic of the Kinh, the third largest minority group with an estimated ...
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  • slavery and even less to advance women's rights. Braude 2001 ... and an advocate of women's rights. Braude 2001 Yet another prominent ...
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  • the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government ... to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the ...
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  • and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France ... the first areas providing full citizens rights to Huguenots in 1705, followed ...
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  • ====Enhances status of minority groups==== Far from decreasing the power of minority groups by depressing voter ...
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  • of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United ... its methods in achieving equality of rights. Such difficulties were evident ...
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  • and segregated population of a despised minority group. These concentrations ... stricken or sociologically defined urban minority area whose population lives ...
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  • required China to respect the human rights of Tibetans and their desire ... At the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in 1987 in Washington, D ...
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  • Protestants form a significant minority in some parts of the country ... least 70 Muslims in 2000. However, human rights groups had questioned the ...
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  • of the majority or which denies human rights and civil liberty. ... was to defend the interests of the small minority tribes, such as the Kalenjin ...
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  • the importance of freedom and human rights while also denouncing violent ... of 1970, respecting of worker's rights and additional social demands. ...
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  • serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some encourage problematic ... race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority ...
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  • early 1920s, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor ... ==Majority and minority parties== The "majority party" is ...
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  • emphasis on legal standards, human rights, democratic development, ... ** Minority rights under the Framework Convention for the Protection ...
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  • with no vice-president from the minority being elected. The school ... is portrayed as eloquently defending the rights of Jewish Christians in the ...
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  • many opportunities now considered human rights based on their lineage, it ... There are occasional violations of human rights of Dalits (outcastes - also ...
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  • resident aliens, and Jews—who formed a restless minority. The ruler of the town, Apion bequeathed it to the Romans, but it kept its self-government ...
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  • as one of the precursors to the African-American Civil Rights Movement ... are considered to be the least deserving minority in terms of equal opportunities ...
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  • was a well-known spokesperson for human rights, chairing the committee that ... suffrage, constitutional supremacy, and a bill of rights. ...
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  • regulation to safeguard workers' rights; the former was godless, ... the Catholic majority and the Liberal minority. Pecci encouraged the struggle ...
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  • with movements such as feminism, gay rights and ethnic minority movements ... correctness tends to be pushed by a minority rather than an organic form ...
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  • population of Singapore and significant minority populations in Indonesia ... Chinese of South East Asia. London: Minority Rights Group, ISBN 1897693281 ...
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  • of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights ... the 1960s, Congress has passed most civil rights legislation under its Commerce ...
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  • the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, the granting ... like the Chinese, do not have citizenship rights. The Anglo-Burmese, once ...
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  • Ireland. While Protestants were a small minority in the South they became ... and other mechanisms for ensuring that minority rights are protected, that ...
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  • from the monarchy for themselves only. No rights would apply to the non-Hungarian ... April Laws—was drafted; however, minority nationalities living in ...
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  • including pre-marital sex and the Equal Rights Amendment. This was a sharp ... members of the House elected him Minority Leader. During his tenure ...
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  • however, the Guard disintegrated. A minority formed groups such as the ... ==Human rights controversies== The Sandinista government, its supporters ...
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  • the Batavian Republic, brought equal rights and emancipation for all ... pillar. They formed a considerable minority: one eighth of the population ...
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  • barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced ... * Carpenter, David. The Minority of Henry III. Berkeley: University ...
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  • of Acadia and, consequently, a large minority (approx. 35 percent) is ... has a sizeable francophone Acadian minority (35 percent) and was the ...
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  • These early works demonstrated a liberal view of workers' rights ... the majority, acted as tyrannies to the minority without the consent of any ...
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  • force to defend British "ancient rights of commerce" in June ... segregation existed between the European minority and the Chinese majority ...
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  • should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ... should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ...
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  • what was at the time rather extensive rights to its minorities, it did ... In 1945-1946 almost the entire German minority of Czechoslovakia, ...
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  • new relations based on respect for human rights and justice developed between ... of a Catholic majority state. Forming a minority in the North, the "partition ...
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  • must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority races have the same rights as everyone else, and offering minority members benefits that others ...
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  • the parliament at a time when he headed a minority government. ... he had the opportunity to head the minority government as Prime Minister ...
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  • first in the world to enjoy full political rights, resulting in 19 elected ... and universal suffrage and full political rights for women. These reforms ...
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  • several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay ... justice and strengthening workers' rights. Labour is a full member ...
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  • 50,000 of the entrepreneurial East Indian minority from Uganda, decimating ... Respect for human rights in Uganda has advanced significantly since ...
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  • mere name by the unruly nobles to whom a minority was convenient. Immediately ... as different from ourselves. The rights and wrongs of conquest and ...
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  • as it shifts power toward a rich minority and blocks free trade. Sumner’s ... In his views on gender roles and women’s rights, he advocated for ...
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  • otherwise peaceful demonstrations. Human rights activists are often arrested ... black descent, including a Cape Verdean minority. Pure Portuguese comprise ...
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  • ban on acquiring more stations since its minority owner, Paramount Pictures ... a bold and aggressive move to acquire the rights. Knowing that its would likely ...
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  • state apparatus to enforce property rights and to maintain unequal economic ... or spaces. (Intellectual property rights would also cease.) ...
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  • her leadership in creating opportunities for minority athletes. Unable to attend the ceremony Ms. Fran Clayton-Gray, CEO of the Althea Gibson Foundation ...
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  • of the French or simply a very vocal minority is open to debate. However ... equation: Every man is born with certain rights; the Jews are human beings ...
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  • state by the Partition of Ireland in 1921, the minority Roman Catholic community which also favored union with the independent Republic of Ireland ...
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  • station that supplied it) retains all rights for rebroadcasts; the suppliers ... state and federal sources account for a minority percentage of public television ...
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  • of secularism, democracy, and human rights, by effort to control inflation ... Çiller is regarded as a champion of human rights; on the other, her government ...
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  • achieve a correct or appropriate result. Minority influence is the degree ... To protect the rights and well-being of research participants, and ...
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  • Napoleon Bonaparte reestablished the Church's rights in 1801 ... with the Jewish, Lutheran, and Calvinist minority religions. During the nineteenth ...
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  • 1955) was a tireless educator and civil rights activist born to former slaves ... so aggressively and effectively for minority involvement that she earned ...
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  • destined to rule other peoples, for whose rights he had little if any concern ... has increased, they still represent a minority of Rhodes Scholarship winners. ...
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  • the democratic values of freedom and equal rights, and he created a theory ... all persons in a society are granted equal rights and basic human liberties ...
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  • as inefficient and detrimental to the rights of the individual, principles he promoted throughout his career. He distrusted the League of Nations ...
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  • that he "never feared being in a minority." When Cosmo Lang retired ... 2. That the rights of the individual must be assured. 3. That the rights ...
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  • A much smaller Russian-speaking minority in Lithuania has largely ... Thus, according to Romania's minority rights law, education, signage ...
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  • the people of Cyprus into a majority and minority, based on national origin ... is also home to a significant Armenian minority, as well as a large refugee ...
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  • quot;to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed ... deportation, and opposed attacks on the rights of labor unions to meet and ...
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  • Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has ... as apartheid. While the white minority enjoyed the highest standard ...
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  • He was a strong supporter of state's rights, especially the right of ... land and clime, in the enjoyment of those rights which are set forth in our ...
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  • reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing ... Congress could not represent the interests of the minority ...
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  • is given to Marshall as a radical civil rights leader. He did not follow ... of honest work and dedication for the rights of American citizens. He ...
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  • state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, such as forced ... and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, developed in response to ...
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  • in governance, a commitment to human rights, and several specific enumerated ... of 18 who possess full civil and political rights. The president nominates ...
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  • of India. Under Buddhist law, women had rights and could own property, therefore ... with a majority of Hindus and the largest minority being Muslim. There are ...
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  • the Japanese government offered transit rights and funding for the repatriation ... minorities and diasporas: identities and rights in the Middle East. (London: ...
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  • which themselves have sometimes been minority coalitions ruling with parliamentary ... society since 2003, meaning they have rights to conduct weddings, etc ...
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  • nepotism, political repression and human rights violations. In 1986 he was ... of votes. He immediately became its Minority Floor Leader. In 1963, after ...
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  • Record as part of a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying, "Noah saw fit to discriminate against Ham's descendants." ...
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  • Minorities: Syria Overview|publisher=Minority Rights Group International ... dominated regime, Syria suffers from human rights abuses and a high poverty rate. ...
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  • systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi minority and the moderates of its ... Hutus among the nobility. Tutsis were a minority of the population, mostly ...
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  • of the Jews in general, and of the Jewish minority in Romania in particular ... to resign themselves in order to become a minority with certain rights and ...
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  • Government subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea ... The vast majority are of Polynesian ethnicity, with a small minority ...
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  • system are a pledge (or deed) of land (or rights) in exchange for services. came several times to offer local minority nationalities blessings ...
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  • of democratic ideals and individual rights, accompanied European imperialism ... but the Manchus, today an ethnic minority in China. Nomadic babarians ...
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  • island. Article 21 of the treaty gave the minority Muslims on the island the ... triggered an attack against the Greek minority in Istanbul. On September ...
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  • of political life in Sweden, defining rights and freedoms. The Act of ... languages are officially recognized as minority languages: Finnish, Meänkieli ...
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  • term for one of the fifty-five official minority groups recognized by the ... many American conservatives and some human rights advocates. ...
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  • principles. In recent decades, however, a minority of Reform rabbis and laity ... aspects of Jewish law which restrict equal rights for women. It allows women ...
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  • who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the ... the Harlem Renaissance and early civil rights activists. ...
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  • by only a very small (but influential) minority of Americans. Merk's ... practice of recognizing only limited land rights of indigenous peoples. In ...
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  • of the Constitution and State's rights faithfully reflected the ... * Silbey, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in ...
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  • of the population spoke one of the minority languages as mother language: ... in the neighboring states (Human Rights Watch; Duray 1997; FigyelőNet; ...
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  • protest songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s, which ... (for example Nirvana, Mudhoney and L7), a minority (for example Pearl Jam, ...
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  • settlers and legal restrictions on the rights of Catholics. However, this ... trained, badly supplied, and only a minority of them had functional muskets ...
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  • United States. During the American Civil Rights movement, authors such as ... in that it is written by members of a minority community who reside within ...
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  • guaranteed the religious and property rights of French settlers, but the ... East and has been strong proponent of the rights of the Palestinian people ...
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