| Judicial functions of the House of Lords Talk:Judicial_functions_of_the_House_of_Lords
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| Capital punishment in the United Kingdom Capital punishment was used in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states of England and Scotland from the earliest times until the punishment was abolished in the twentieth century. The last executions, by hanging, took place in 1964, prior to capital punishment being abolished for murder (in 1969 in Great Britain and in 1973 in Northern Ireland). Although not applied since, the death penalty remained on the statute book for certain other offences until 1998. Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom
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| Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others Convention_for_the_Suppression_of_the_Traffic_in_Persons_and_of_the_Exploitation_of_the_Prostitution_of_Others
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| Blaise Compaoré Blaise Compaoré (born February 3, 1951) has been the President of Burkina Faso since 1987. He is the founder of the ruling political party, the Congress for Democracy and Progress. He has been implicated in the murder of Thomas Sankara, his predecessor, in the 1987 coup. He was elected President in 1991, in an election that was boycotted by the opposition; he was re-elected in 1998 and 2005. Blaise_Compaoré
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| Differences between standard Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian The standard Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian languages are very similar, but differ in various aspects as outlined below. The various nuances do not present major obstacles to communication. In linguistic terms, these three standard languages form a diasystem within the South slavic dialect continuum.After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the languages of Croats and Serbs went their own way, after being politically forcefully kept "together" since 1918 according to Croatian sources and views. Differences_between_standard_Bosnian,_Croatian_and_Serbian
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| Japanese-Korean disputes/Archive 1 Talk:Japanese-Korean_disputes/Archive_1
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| Comfort women Comfort women is a euphemism for women working in military brothels, especially those women who were forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Around 200,000 are typically estimated to have been involved, with estimates as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars Comfort_women
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| Sarandë District Talk:Sarandë_District
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| Freedom of religion in Iran Freedom of religion in Iran is a debated subject. Iran is an Islamic republic. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran mandates that the official religion of Iran is Islam (seeIslam in Iran) and the Twelver Ja'fari school, though it also mandates that other Islamic schools are to be accorded full respect, and their followers are free to act in accordance with their own jurisprudence in performing their religious rites and recognizes Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian Iranians as religious minorities. Freedom_of_religion_in_Iran
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| Freedom of religion in Afghanistan Freedom of religion in Afghanistan has changed in recent years because the current government of Afghanistan has only been in place since 2002, following a U.S.-led invasion which displaced the former Taliban government. The Constitution of Afghanistan is dated January 23, 2004, and its initial three articles mandate Afghanistan shall be an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary, and indivisible state. Freedom_of_religion_in_Afghanistan
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| Standard Hindi Talk:Standard_Hindi
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| Operation Storm Operation_Storm
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| Multiple citizenship Multiple citizenship is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen under the laws of more than one state. Multiple citizenships exist because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, citizenship requirements. Multiple_citizenship
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| Demographics of Uzbekistan Talk:Demographics_of_Uzbekistan
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| Ethnic issues in Japan Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
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| Religious toleration Religious toleration is the condition of accepting or permitting others' religious beliefs and practices which disagree with one's own. Religious_toleration
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| Comfort women Talk:Comfort_women
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| Republika Srpska Republika Srpska (Serbian Cyrillic:political-territorial divisions of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The National Assembly and the government are based in Banja Luka, although Sarajevo remains the official capital. Republika_Srpska
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| Equatorial Guinea Talk:Equatorial_Guinea
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| End of World War II in Europe European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender took place in late April and early May 1945. End_of_World_War_II_in_Europe
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| Gnassingbé Eyadéma General Gnassingbé Eyadéma, formerly Étienne Eyadéma (December 26, 1937 – February 5, 2005), was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005. He participated in two successful military coups, in January 1963 and January 1967, and became President on April 14, 1967. Gnassingbé_Eyadéma
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| Tatar language Talk:Tatar_language
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| Ali Khamenei Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i (, Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian politician and cleric. He has been Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989 and before that was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He has been described as one of only three people having "important influences" on the Islamic Republic of Iran, the other two being Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the revolution, and Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president of Iran for much of the 1990s. Ali_Khamenei
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| International development For other forms of development, see development (disambiguation).International development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development foreign aid, governance, healthcare, education, gender equality, disaster preparedness, infrastructure, economics, human rights, environment and issues associated with these. International_development
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| Office québécois de la langue française Talk:Office_québécois_de_la_langue_française
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| Law of Return The Law of Return (Hebrew:ḥok ha-shvūt) is Israeli legislation, enacted in 1950, that gives Jews, those of Jewish ancestry, and their spouses the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. Law_of_Return
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights Talk:Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
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| Maghazi (camp) Maghazi () is located in the Deir al-Balah Governorate in the central Gaza Strip. It is a Palestinian refugee camp that was established in 1949. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the Refugee Camp had a population of 24,284 in mid-year 2006. The refugee camp is built on 559 dunums (5.6km²). On the evening of Monday January 6, 2003, the IDF raided the camp and killed three Palestinians and wounded dozens claiming they were targeting militants hiding there. Maghazi_(camp)
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| United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly resolution 2217 in 1966. human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments".They were first awarded in 1968, and they have been given out at five-year intervals since then. Human Rights Day. General Assembly and the United_Nations_Prize_in_the_Field_of_Human_Rights
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| People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina) The Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) was the military branch of the communist PRT (Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, or Workers' Revolutionary Party) in Argentina. The name means "People's Revolutionary Army". People's_Revolutionary_Army_(Argentina)
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| Kaonde language Kaonde, also known as Chikaonde and Kawonde, is a Bantu language (of the larger Niger-Congo family) that is spoken primarily in Zambia but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kaonde and its dialects are spoken and understood by perhaps 350,000 people or more. It is estimated that approximately 3% of Zambians are native Kaonde speakers. Kaonde speakers overwhelmingly live in the northwestern part of Zambia. Kaonde_language
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| Haitian Creole language Haitian Creole language (kreyòl ayisyen), often called simply Creole or Kreyòl (pronounced ), is a language spoken in Haiti by about 7.0 million people (), which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 400,000 speakers who live in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and United States Haitian_Creole_language
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| Israel, Palestinians, and the United Nations Issues relating to the state of Israel, the Palestinian people and other aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict occupy a large amount of debate time, resolutions and resources at the .The adoption of UNSCOP's recommendation to partition Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 was one of the earliest decisions of the UN. Israel,_Palestinians,_and_the_United_Nations
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| Macedonian Talk:Macedonian
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| Separate school Separate_school
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| Urdu Talk:Urdu
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| Freedom of thought Freedom of thought (also called freedom of conscience and freedom of ideas) is the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints. It is closely related to, yet distinct from, the concept of freedom of expression. Freedom_of_thought
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| Dalton McGuinty Talk:Dalton_McGuinty
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| History of feminism The history of feminism is the history of feminist movements. Most feminist historians assert that all movements that work to overturn gender inequality and obtain women's rights should be considered feminist movements, even when they did not (or do not) apply the term to themselves. Other historians assert that the term should be limited to the modern feminist movement and its descendants. Those historians use the label protofeminist to describe other movements. History_of_feminism
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| Bosnian War The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly known as the Bosnian War, was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several sides. According to numerous International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia judgements the conflict involved Bosnia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) as well as Croatia. Bosnian_War
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| Natural and legal rights Talk:Natural_and_legal_rights
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| Human rights in Cuba Human rights in Cuba are a subject of much debate. In practise, repression is "written into Cuban law" according to Human Rights Watch. Human_rights_in_Cuba
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| United Nations Security Council Resolution 446 United Nations Security Council Resolution 446 concerned the issue of Israeli settlements in the "Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem". This refers to the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip as well as the Syrian Golan Heights. United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_446
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| Jew Watch Jew_Watch
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| Brezhnev stagnation Period of stagnation (, transliterated zastoy), also known as Brezhnevian Stagnation (or Brezhnev stagnation), the Stagnation Period, or the Era of Stagnation (), refers to a period of socio-economic slowdown under Leonid Brezhnev in the history of the Soviet Union that started in the mid-1970s. Brezhnev_stagnation
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| Richard Goldstone Richard J. Goldstone (born October 26, 1938) was a South African Constitutional Court judge Richard_Goldstone
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| Demographics of Jordan Talk:Demographics_of_Jordan
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| Voting age voting age is a minimum age established by law that a person must attain in order to be eligible to vote in a public election. constitutional provision.At the present time the voting age across the world is typically 18. When the right to vote was first accorded in democracies the voting age was generally set at 21, or in some cases at an even higher level. Voting_age
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| United Nations Human Rights Council United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations System. The UNHRC is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR, herein CHR), and is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly. Based in Geneva, the UNHRC's main purpose is to make recommendations to the General Assembly about situations in which human rights are violated. The UNHRC has no authority except to make recommendations to the General Assembly. United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council
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| New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy is a debate in the politics of New Zealand. It concerns the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed, with many Māori groups claiming that Māori have a rightful claim to title. These claims are based around historical possession and the Treaty of Waitangi. New_Zealand_foreshore_and_seabed_controversy
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