Maggies Toronto

Introduction "Know your human right" (High profile campaign of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human right). "Human rights and fundamental freedoms are the birthright of all human beings; their protection and promotion is the first responsibility of Governments" (Vienna Declaration and Program of Action 1993). "For our human livelihood, approach to citizenship is the very first instigation" (Coined by Lay Vicheka, 2005). "Live to the best of our dignity", I would say, is my very persuasion to such the essay titled; Principles of Citizenship. Until today, "the best way to lead humankind is through rationalism" is still valid. Everything shall have its one or...

WHEN Elizabeth arrives at work each day, a camera tracks her movements. As she enters the building, one camera zooms in on her face. During the day numerous other cameras keep her under constant surveillance. This level of scrutiny is understandable because she works for a company that handles millions of dollars in cash each day. Elizabeth knows she will be closely watched at work; it was clearly explained to her when she took the job. For millions of other people, however, the amount of surveillance they are subjected to each day may not be as clearly defined. Living in a Surveillance Society Are you under surveillance while at work? Worldwide, millions of employees have their Internet and E-mail...

One of the worlds greatest Meditators, says Governments can't eradicate poverty from the Earth. Neither can they bring peace. "To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach," A few hundred meditators on either side of a conflict is all that's needed to create an aura of peace. "We create world consciousness and coherence. Therefore, fighting will stop all over," "Don't fight darkness. Bring the light of Meditation, and darkness will disappear."o Eliminate poverty? End war and create world peace? The unifying field that Albert Einstein sought has been within us all the time, in the "unbounded consciousness" of the mind. "There is one unity, unified wholeness, total unified...

At present, China's annual consumption of shoes worth nearly 500 billion yuan, almost the same with children's clothing, and in the next few years will be about 8% per year rate of increase, the market potential is enormous. As a development, production and integration of children's shoes as a wholly foreign owned enterprise in Fujian Province of China Hang Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. will be Chinese and foreign well-known cartoon characters and their own culture and blend in the market, establish a high-end brand image. Strong brand and rare in the domestic shoes market, China Hang how winning? Trends in children's shoes tend to demand, brand today, Hua Hang there, what kind of countermeasures? With a...

In the Old Testament came the phrase; "An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a Tooth" as a form of punishment given during the time of Moses. The Muslims in the same way applies this concept of punishment lest anyone commits an offense against the teachings of Quran. Just recently, a news article from the internet reported that in Iran, three men convicted of adultery were sentenced to death by stoning. This form of punishment is strongly condemned by some Muslim human rights group in that country as the news report said and apparently, a law has been passed banning this inhumane way of punishment. In Christian countries like the Philippines who proud herself as the only Catholic nation in Asia and yet...

Amnesty International is predicting civil unrest and conflict with Fiji's military government, as army commanders continue to tighten their grip. The international human rights organization claims conditions in the troubled South Pacific nation are getting worse by the day. Army chief Commodore Frank Bainimarama was reinstated as interim prime minister, earlier this month, following the president's decision to abrogate the constitution. Amnesty International is painting a serious picture of life in Fiji, as the military continues to increase its authority. Army extends grip on power Fiji's military commander Frank Bainimarama stands outside the officer's mess at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in...

If this doesn't beat all, one week they, the Australian Government is telling Japan not to kill whales, and now they go and kill 400-kangaroos, don't they feel a little two-faced about this? If they were to kill them for soup or something, for the Aborigines, perhaps they could justify it, but because they want to keep insects alive and lizards you got to be on some Kangaroo high. One week folks are killing whales, in the Anarchic, for whale steak, another week they are elephants for their tusks in the name of squeezing too many in to, too little a space, and the third week too many dogs in India, giving too many folks rabies, and they want to kill dogs, and now this, kangaroo via insects and...

The United States of America just passed a milestone when it enacted several important bills into law in their land. Last year, its Congress passed a stimulus bill that helped heal the deep wounds of financial cutback brought about by the menace of some big bosses in Wall Street. Just last month, the same batch of legislator sweepingly approved an almost a century old bill – the health care reform act. For this month, they have a pending bill that needed to be passed as the president suggested. That is the bill that will finally regulate banking in their land. But this is just the “other side of the world.” Together with the US, several countries across the globe also shared similar changes...

Reverse cell phone lookup services have become quite common and there are many people who use it every day, whether to find some prankster, or to check on their spouse, to check on friends, to find friends, or to check on children. With so much talk about reverse cell phone lookup services, the question that comes to mind is - Is what we are doing right? Is it not an intrusion on their privacy? Agreed, this service helps catch people that are harassing us but it does not stop there. People misuse this service by finding unsuspecting people's details. These pranksters we are trying to find may be doing it as well. May be they just pick cell phone numbers till they find someone in the age group they...

The Orleans Ballroom Built in 1817, it was known for its theater and French Opera, but early visitors to New Orleans came here to see the lavish and exciting Quadroon Balls. New Orleans' slave laws create a separate social class between whites and slaves that consisted of "free people of color". New Orleans' slave laws were based on the "Code Noir" or French Black Code and the Spanish slave laws. From the French laws, slaves got Sunday as their day off. A slave could work other jobs on his day off and earn his own money. From the Spanish laws, he could buy his freedom from his master and become a "free person of color". As a "free person of color" he could own property, make money, buy his family...

Criminal law is one of the most common types of law practiced in the United States. People make mistakes, and when these mistakes involve the law, it is absolutely critical that if you find yourself on the wrong side of the law that you have the best lawyer at your side to help you protect your rights and freedom. Some of the most common infractions that people find themselves involved with are child abuse laws, fraud, and hate crimes. Child abuse laws are in place to help protect innocent people, but more and more often these days these laws are used to take advantage of innocent people. Unscrupulous people use the stigma attached with child abuse accusations to force innocent people into...

Cherokee workwear scrubs is proud of its name. The Cherokee nation is Native American people who - at the time of the European incursion into the Americas in the 1500's - occupied what is now the East and Southeastern portion of the United States. They refer to themselves in their own language as the Principal People, or "Za la gee". They are one of the Five civilized tribes, and are the largest of the five hundred legally recognized tribes of Native Americans in the U.S. The Cherokee language is of Iroquoian origin, indicating that the Cherokee may have originally migrated south from the Great Lakes region, perhaps between 1800 and 1500 B.C.E. The original Cherokee city may have been located near...

The story of Jesus' Palm Sunday ride into Jerusalem reminds me of the praise houses I learned about when I went on a historical tour of a South Carolina Island. We visited one of the few that's still standing. It was an old white washed wooden hut. Plantation owners used to build praise houses as places where their slaves could meet to worship. These tiny churches were always small since slavery laws forbid large gatherings of African Americans. It was to these praise houses that the slaves came to pray about their joys and sorrows, to read the Bible and to sing. It was at these small gatherings that many spirituals were born. Popular traditional spirituals like Michael Row Your Boat and Motherless...

ew generation of mobile phones users have become more than simply talkers. With the onset of new technological advances, including peer to peer methods and computer-pervaded environments, it is becoming increasingly possible for groups of people to organise and coordinate collective actions on a scale never before imagined. Talk has turned to action. Consider the following cases in point where mobile phone technology has amplified cooperative human efforts on a scale not historically seen before. - A million Filipinos toppled President Estrada through public demonstrations organised through salvos of text messages. - Mobile phones were used by protesters at the 1999 World Trade Organisation meeting...

p>The book opens in Hamburg in Northern Germany; indeed most of the events take place there. A law abiding Turkish family take in a Chechen refugee, an illegal immigrant, a pious Muslim young man who reached the west via a circuitous route that included Turkish and Russian prisons where he was dreadfully abused, a young man who doesn't appear to speak any language that well. But the young guy, Issa, is strangely not without means. His father was a corrupt Soviet general in the final days of the evil empire, busy salting away ill gotten gains from heaven knows what crooked enterprises, depositing vast funds in the apparent safety of Tommy Brue's independent English bank, Brue Freres, now based in...

When talking about UK Immigration Centre there are two things that come to mind. The most common one, the one that is usually covered in the news, is linked with what is basically a detention centre for UK immigrants that are causing problems or need to be investigated further. As you can imagine, there is a need to have such UK Immigration centre because not everybody that goes to UK is looking for a better life and is willing to work for it. In fact, these two reasons alone are not even enough in most cases to receive an UK visa that will allow you to work, buy a house and so on. Under such circumstances, it is plain to see why a lot of people are caught and are "jailed" in such immigration...

Several countries have either banned VoIP or talked about banning VoIP over the last few years. VoIP is cheaper than other forms of telephony and some counties are looking at this as a negative for a variety of reasons. VoIP providers can often be based anywhere in the world, so as opposed to telephone providers, the profits may leave the country. There are several reasons why VoIP has been banned in certain territories. Part of the reason is competition. Some claim it is unfair on local telecommunications companies as VoIP providers can offer a cheaper service. This brings up the debate of a free market. Should it be completely free and open to everyone or should steps be made to support local...

Of all the things that befall us in life, nothing quite equals the monumental impact that love and death have on the way we go about our daily lives and the way we view reality. Lives are made and unmade, political situations are fueled and break, and in general the very fabric of reality is changed forever because of these two phenomena. And it is arguably death that is the stronger of the two in spite of what a lot of hopeless romantics would say. It is perhaps the finality of death that gives it its tremendous emotional and anthropological significance. When someone dies, it is truly the end. That is why everything from cosmetic surgery to horror films are so numerous in our society. These are...

The young people are motivated to do bad things like robbing, killing, drug trafficking, and others. They are juniors that are able to comment big misdeeds, but the law has been soft with them; so they continue in the streets robbing and killing because they know that nothing will happen to them, because they are minors. I think that these boys must receive psychological help, to motivate them to study, to teach them how to live a good life without problems with the lay. I do not, however, accept the death penalty for them. Some people say that it's the best for everyone to punish them with death, but they are not even emotionally mature to be judged like adults. The most important thing is that...

Diamonds are the favorite of women from early times, but buying them is always a risk. You have to pay attention to many aspects when it comes to buying diamonds. The Internet is the best place to buy anything and today you can even buy diamonds online. The basic tips are the same as it is for any kind of shopping like choosing the right website, genuine sellers and taking precautions in making the purchases and using credit cards. When it comes to buying diamonds online, you have to be more careful and conscious. If you go shopping online for diamonds you will observe that the prices are comparatively lower and this is because online stores do not have to spend on the showrooms, shop maintenance...

As human rights violations continue to occur around the globe, law schools are establishing human rights clinics to meet the ever increasing demand for human rights lawyers. These United States based institutions are not only working to strengthen their own communities, but also to train students and professors, organizations and professionals, who are working to strengthen these rights outside of the United States. Even though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights forms the basis of International Human Rights Law, the Declaration itself is not legally binding. However, civil rights clinics are training lawyers to strengthen the enforcement of such rights and increase adherence to the agreements...

It was the very darkest time of the American Civil War. President Lincoln could not find the right superior officer who would take the charge to the enemy. In contrast, the most brilliant cadet at West Point Academy to train American officers, Robert E. Lee, had felt a loyalty to his native Virginia he could not refuse. His masterful strikes and retreats kept a far superior northern force at it's wits end. At the top of the heap of those wits was the President. In contrast, the Senior Union General was often reported speaking that the nation needed a dictator: he had the ideal candidate in mind, and it was not President Lincoln. I studied the letter Lincoln wrote to that general, and it is a...

What seems to be an undeclared war against international NGOs in the Congo is in constant evolution. In this situation, the questions to know why this war against those NGOs that have saved many people in eastern part of the country create even more unanswered questions. It is true that sometimes there is smoke without fire, but the growing misunderstanding between the Congolese government and international NGOs should be given special attention for many reasons. First and foremost, this tension between the Congolese government, through its spokesperson and Minister of Press, Mr. Lambert Mende Omalanga and Minister of Justice, Luzolo Lessa Bambi, with international NGOs, in this case, Human Rights...

It seems that many people are convinced that the rich and powerful have enough money to run our country. The truth is, nothing ( including our politicians, governments, religions, corporations and businesses) can survive without the constant flow of money and labor provided by the masses of people. Therefore, the people are the real power in this world when they function as a collective group because they can control the flow of money. In regards to building the foundation for World Peace through the establishment of a system of International Law and Order, which would be based on Human Rights, the people working together as a collective group have the voting power and spending power to achieve...

  In present world there are many communities that are passing their lives under inhuman laws in third world countries as well as in developing countries. Pakistan is also a country which in passing through the stages of development. The article regards an inhuman law which is applicable to the tribal people of FATA. FATA stands for federally administrative tribal areas. On the boarder of Afghanistan and Pakistan there living Pukhtoon tribes in hilly areas which have lack of social development. There population is about fifty lakes now a day. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, article 247, Pakistani law is not applicable to the tribal built and FCR should be applicable to these areas. As we...

There are a lot of liberals out there vying for the Presidency in 2008. Some have that little "D" for Democrat next to their name while others have an "R" for Republican. And we haven't even gotten into discussing other parties infested with liberals like the Greens, Socialists and Communists; the latter of which will probably just throw support behind the Democratic Party nominee anyway when all is said and done. All these candidates have their eyes set on the Presidency and the role of "Commander in Chief" because liberals see their roles in government as one of "commanding" America how to act. Someone should tell them however that is not what the founders meant by the President being...

Every great leader faced challenges. History abounds with stories of success being created out of adversity. How determined are you to reach your goals? What are you willing to do in order to reach that level of success? "Toscanini was so nearsighted that he could not see the score when conducting; Lord Byron had a club foot; Homer and Milton were blind; Sir Walter Scott was an invalid; Beethoven was deaf; Dostoyevsky and de Maupassant were epileptic; Franklin D. Roosevelt did not have free use of his legs," as recorded in "The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity" by Catherine Ponder. Abraham Lincoln failed many many times before becoming a great President of the United States and leading the nation to free...

1. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation he wasn't actually freeing ALL the slaves, he was only freeing the slaves in the rebellious states. It's interesting that he chose to free the slaves in those states that he had the least power to do so. It did however serve a political purpose by adding a moral component to the Union cause and also allowed blacks to join the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war as many as 200,000 blacks had fought for the Union. 2. Union General Major General Lovell H. Rousseau once rounded up leading citizens during the Union occupation of Huntsville Alabama and each day placed one of them on the Union trains traveling in and out of the city to...

If tall trees could talk, what would they say? If tall trees could talk, I don't know about you but I would get a little nervous and a little curious. Oh, and that reminds me of my nervous, curious day in the midst of a great wise oak. Listen. One day I went out to play after lunch and you would not believe what happened. As I sat at the base of a very large, broad oak tree; I heard a noise. It was not just any noise, but a voice. This voice was soft but increased with every creak and wind whistling leaf on each branch. It was as if the wind blew across the wind pipe of a centuries old wood flute. As I placed my ear closer to the tree trunk I sensed a sound of sarcasm as the tree directly asked If...

How did a young boy who walked from his tribal village of Tumbuka in Nyasaland (now Malawi) to Khartoum, Sudan, a distance of 3,200 kilometres, seeking opportunities for further education become a professor of political science at Cambridge University in England and a widely respected author? Yes! Professor Legson Kayira completed a perilous 3,000-mile, two-year journey on foot with absolutely no money or resources except for a five-day supply of food, a Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress (his two most treasures), a blanket and a small axe for protection when he left his tribal village of Tumbuka in Nyasaland in October 1958. The truth is, because his parents were illiterate, they were not even sure...

The United States of America. The greatest country in the world, or at least so they say, has had its share of bloodshed on its own soil. The US Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars of all time. Below is the first year's timeline of how the war went. Nobody alive today is going to know this unless they've studied it in history class. But there was a time not too long ago, when people who were around during this terrible time probably had long conversations about it with your parents or grandparents. Sadly, only in one on one conversations can you truly understand the horror of what transpired during this five year period. In January of 1861 the southern states seceded from the Union. The...

In this time of political change, we are reminded of the early 60's harbinger of change; the implementation of the Nixon Southern Strategy. There was a time back in the sixties, when the vast majority of working people unabashedly called themselves Democrats. Many Republicans and Democrats called themselves Liberals. After thirty years of intense Conservative marketing, calling yourself a liberal seems to be as popular as calling yourself a communist. The man who predicted the tectonic political shift was a scholarly man by the name of Kevin Phillips. If you have some time to kill, read a book called The emerging Republican Majority. Mr. Phillips wasn't the architect of the infamous Southern...

I wanted to quell some myth's about the "American Civil War". The first myth is concerning the Confederate Flags utilized during the Civil War. One particular flag was utilized as a battle flag nicknamed "The Southern Cross". Many view this flag as a form of racism, but it was not fashioned out of racism. This flag unfortunately has been adapted by many hate groups but the origins of this flag represented solidity as well as bravery, and in no form or fashion was utilized to show the South's love for racism. This "Southern Cross" shows the cross of St. Andrew whom was crucified. Due to a large degree of Scottish/Irish ancestry within the South during that era, this cross was recognized as such...

It was the darkest times for the North in the five year long American Civil War. President Lincoln could not find a superior officer who would take the charge to the enemy. In contrast, to the great advantage of the out manned and out gunned South was the decision of the most brilliant graduate at West Point Academy, Robert E. Lee to be drummed out of West Point to join the South. Lee felt a loyalty to his native Virginia that he could not refuse. For the next half of the war and more, the masterful strikes, retreats and maneuvers led by Lee kept a far superior northern force at it's wits end. At the top of the heap of those wits was the President. In contrast, the Senior Union General was often...

"The Ten Commandments" is an incredible epic tale based on the book of Exodus of the Old Testament. The acting is superb, as are the special effects for the time the movie was made (1956). Though this is a very long movie, it's quite mesmerizing, keeping you glued to the screen to the end. I'm not at all religious, but I still love this movie, both for its entertainment value and for its message of the value of freedom as well as the price necessary to maintain it. Moses Becomes Prince of Egypt The Ten Commandments is an expanded version of Exodus which also includes the early part of Moses' life, namely before he visits God on Mt. Sinai. After Moses is born, he is delivered in a basket across the...

The truth is seldom found easily and usually is found under a pile of lies, intentional clutter and bias. Prior to the American Civil war the Republican Party as led by Abraham Lincoln was greatly in favor of Emancipation of the slaves. Their collective conscience was adamant that all men should be free. While the Democratic Party was cut in two groups with the majority in the South bitterly opposing slave freedom and those in the North, for the most part, supporting Lincoln's agenda to free the slaves. It is so ironic that today's African American community has been so hoodwinked by the current Democratic Party that they fully are convinced that the Democrats have their best interest at mind. How...

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Ten Commandments is by far the best rendition of the story Moses ever to cross the big screen. Directed by celebrated Hollywood trailblazer Cecil B. DeMille, the film is based on the Old Testament epic which tells the story of the enslavement of the Hebrew people by the Egyptian empire. Burdened by hundreds of years of oppression, God hears the wailing calls of the Hebrews and sends his messenger Moses to demand Pharaoh set them free. With a hardened heart, the ancient monarch refuses, setting the stage for a battle with the Almighty that threatens to leave Egypt in ruins... The Ten Commandments begins with the birth of Moses, a Hebrew...