Democracy is a universally recognized ideal and is one of the core values of the United Nations. Democracy provides an environment for the protection and effective realization of human rights. These values are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further developed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights‚ which enshrines a host of political rights and civil liberties underpinning meaningful democracies United Nations activities in support of democracy and
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human rights has been finally materialized by UN with the adoption and enforcement of Convention on rights of Persons with disabilities.(CRPD). A close look at the drafting process of this convention also brings home the fact that UN has paid a sufficient heed to the contemporary clarion call of disability rights movement‚ “nothing about us without us” by giving ample representation to the disability sector of civil society. Indeed the efforts of the UN signifies transformation in the status of PWDs
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October 6th‚ 2010 MODEL U.N The Model U.N was founded in Plattsburgh in 2008 by the students as an activity to stay involved and improve the public speaking skills. This club’s aim is to help people develop their personal skill and build up confidence to improve their debating skills. The format is based on U.N where university students assume responsibility as representative of different countries and debate about the issues in the world. The Clubs beings to functioning at the starting of every
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Eid’s day will be celebrated by the Muslims after one month of fasting. For Muslims‚ Eid’s day is a special day to celebrate after we have gone through fasting for a month from food and drinks starting from Subuh until Maghrib. There are three synonymous Eid’s day symbols for me which include wearing traditional clothes‚ making many types of traditional food and baking cookies. For me the most synonymous symbols is wearing traditional clothes such as “baju melayu” and “baju kurung”. Some people
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Korean military exercises along the Northern Limit Line (NLL)‚ the UN mandated maritime border it shares with North Korea. It must be noted that in 1999‚ the Government of North Korea drew up a new border‚ the West Sea Military Demarcation Line (WSMDL)‚ which extended further south of the NLL. The aforementioned South Korean military exercises took place in the area claimed by North Korea when it drew up this new border. Neither the UN nor South Korea has recognized the North’s claim over this territory
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in the United Nations (UN)‚ aid in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region and promotion of a range of regional agreements involving countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The United Nations first came into being in 1945 as an organisation dedicated to the maintenance of world peace and security. Being one of its founding members‚ Australia has committed troops to over 20 UN peacekeeping operations and supports the UN by consenting to treaties‚ contributing to UN discussions involving
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Allan Kaprow writes in “The Education of the Un-Artist‚ Part II” that the reconstitution of “art” into “play” as “something the world can spend… play as currency” is essential to mobility and social change. As indicated by the title of his essay‚ Kaprow anchors play in education‚ in the acquisition and generation of knowledge by those who play. This would suggest that while Kaprow calls for play
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The UK has an un-codified‚ unitary and flexible constitution. It is codified because our rules and laws are in diffuse and varied sources as oppose to one single authoritative document. It is unitary because a central government controls policy for the whole country on the constituencies and constituent’s behalf and it is flexible because the constitution can be easily changed/altered by passing or abolishing laws. Un-codified constitutions are un-authoritative‚ not entrenched so easy to change and
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Presentation of the terrorist attack of the XX century The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 22‚ 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed‚ nine of them children‚ and 25 were wounded. The attack took place on the road to Moshav Avivim‚ near Israel’s border with Lebanon. Two bazooka shells were fired at the bus. The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC. Early in the morning‚ the bus departed from Avivim heading with its passengers
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1 Oakland : Read p. 97-‐99 (“Composition”)‚ p. 87-‐88 (“The growth of government structures”) Questions 1 Describe the composition of the UK Parliament. The UK Parliament is made of two Houses (the House of Commons and the House of Lords) and the monarch. The
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