| Jehovah's Witnesses/Archive 10 Talk:Jehovah's_Witnesses/Archive_10
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| Jehovah's Witnesses/Archive 11 Talk:Jehovah's_Witnesses/Archive_11
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| Adangme language Adangme (also called Dangme), is a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by 800,000 people.Some sources list Adangbe as another name for the same language whereas Ethnologue lists it as a different language in the Left bank branch of the Kwa family, and it has a separate ISO 639-3 code of 'adq'. Adangme_language
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| Linda Chavez Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companiesSpanish (father's side) descent and Anglo-American (mother's side) ancestry, was once the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Hispanic woman nominated to the United States Cabinet. Linda_Chavez
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| Armenian Genocide/Archive 3 Talk:Armenian_Genocide/Archive_3
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| Depleted uranium/Archive 1 Talk:Depleted_uranium/Archive_1
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| Krio language Krio is the national language of Sierra Leone. The language is the lingua franca language spoken throughout the country. The Krio language is spoken by 97% of Sierra Leone's population and unites all the different ethnic groups in the country, especially in their trade and interaction with each other.The language is native to the Sierra Leone Creole people or Krios, (a community of about 300,000 descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, United States and Britain). Krio_language
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| Bahá'u'lláh/Photo Talk:Bahá'u'lláh/Photo
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| Penan The Penan are a nomadic aboriginal people living in Sarawak and Brunei. They are one of the last such peoples remaining. The Penan are noted for their practice of 'molong' which means never taking more than necessary. Most Penan were nomadic hunter-gatherers until the post-World War II missionaries settled many of the Penan, mainly in the Ulu-Baram district but also in the Limbang district. Penan
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| Khojaly Massacre Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25 February 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. According to the Azerbaijani side, as well as Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch and other international observers, the massacre was committed by the ethnic Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment. Khojaly_Massacre
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| Colombian Constitution of 1991 The Political Constitution of Colombia, better known as the Constitution of 1991, is the current governing document of the Republic of Colombia. Promulgated in 1991, it replaced the Constitution of 1886. It has lately been called the Constitution of Rights. Colombian_Constitution_of_1991
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| Don Jail Don_Jail
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| Village guard system Talk:Village_guard_system
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| Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) was signed on February 1995 by 22 member States of the Council of Europe (not to be confused with similarly named institutions of the European Union). The Council of Europe first discussed according specific protection for national minorites in 1949, but it was not until 1990 that the Council of Europe made a firm commitment to protect these minority groups. Framework_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_National_Minorities
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| Mesoamerica Talk:Mesoamerica
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| Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Annex I of a resolution on 25 May 2000.The protocol came into force on 12 February 2002.The protocol requires of ratifying governments to ensure that while their armed forces can accept volunteers below the age of 18, they can not be conscripted and "States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take a direct part in hostilities". Optional_Protocol_on_the_Involvement_of_Children_in_Armed_Conflict
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| Turkish invasion of Cyprus Talk:Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
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| Ghulam Azam Ghulam Azam () (born 7 November 1922), is a Bangladeshi political leader. The former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, he opposed the independence of Bangladesh upon its liberation on December 16 1971, and was a permanent resident of England until 1978, and was forced to maintain Pakistani citizenship until 1994 due to the decision by the Bangladeshi government at the time to refuse him citizenship. Ghulam_Azam
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| Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees The United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is an international convention that defines who is a refugee, and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. The convention also sets out which people do not qualify as refugees, such as war criminals. The Convention also provides for some visa-free travel for holders of travel documents issued under the convention. Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees
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| Criminalization Criminalization or criminalisation, in criminology, is "the process by which behaviors and individuals are transformed into crime and criminals". Previously legal acts may be transformed into crimes by legislation or judicial decision. However, there is usually a formal presumption in the rules of statutory interpretation against the retrospective application of laws and only the use of express words by the legislature may rebut this presumption. Criminalization
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| Stateless nation A stateless nation is a political term used to imply that a group, usually a minority ethnic group, is a nation, and is entitled to its own state, specifically a nation-state for that nation. Since there are no objective criteria for whether a particular group is a nation, or which particular group "has" any given multinational state, usage of the term is political and controversial. Stateless_nation
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| Rosemary Nelson Rosemary Nelson (September 4 1958 – March 15 1999) was a prominent Roman Catholic Northern Irish solicitor.Nelson, née Magee, obtained her law degree at Queens University, Belfast (QUB). She worked with other solicitors for a number of years before opening her own practice. Rosemary_Nelson
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| Macedonians (ethnic group)/Archive 2 Talk:Macedonians_(ethnic_group)/Archive_2
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| Age of majority Talk:Age_of_majority
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| List of indigenous peoples Talk:List_of_indigenous_peoples
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| Dietrich v The Queen Dietrich v The Queen was an important case decided in the High Court of Australia on 13 November 1992. It concerned the nature of the right to a fair trial, and under what circumstances indigent defendants (defendants who cannot afford legal representation) should be provided with legal aid by the state. Dietrich_v_The_Queen
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| Social progress Social progress is defined as the changing of society toward the ideal. The concept of social progress was introduced in the early, 19th century social theories, especially those of social evolutionists like August Comte and Herbert Spencer. It was present in the Enlightenment's philosophies of history. Social_progress
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| Anglo-Indian Talk:Anglo-Indian
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| Articles for deletion/Log/2005 July 1 Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2005_July_1
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| Articles for deletion/List of second-generation human rights Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_second-generation_human_rights
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| Security certificate In Canada, a legal mechanism by which the Government of Canada can detain and deport foreign nationals and all other non-citizens living in Canada. The federal government may issue a certificate naming a permanent resident or any other non-citizen suspected of violating human rights, of having membership within organized crime, or is perceived to be a threat to national security. Security_certificate
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| Greece Portal_talk:Greece
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| South Africa under apartheid South_Africa_under_apartheid
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| Herero and Namaqua Genocide Talk:Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide
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| Molobo User_talk:Molobo
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| Gilchrist Olympio Gilchrist Olympio (born 26 December, 1936) is a Togolese politician and the President of the Union of Forces for Change (UFC), the country's main opposition party. He is the son of former President Sylvanus Olympio, who was assassinated in a 1963 coup.Olympio was born in Lomé and he studied mathematics and philosophy in the United States, and in the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he received a doctorate Gilchrist_Olympio
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| Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (before 1999, known as the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) was a think tank of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. It was wound up in late August, 2006.With the dissolution of the Commission on Human Rights and its replacement by the Human Rights Council in 2006, responsibility for the Sub-Commission passed from the former to the latter. Sub-Commission_on_the_Promotion_and_Protection_of_Human_Rights
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| Philippines/Archive 2 Talk:Philippines/Archive_2
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| Violence Against Women Act Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law. It was passed as Title IV, sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 HR 3355 and signed as Public Law 103-322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13 1994. Violence_Against_Women_Act
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| Bhutan Bhutan
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| Vilina Vlas Vilina Vlas is a health spa that served as one of the main detention facilities where Bosniak prisoners were beaten, tortured and sexually assaulted during the Bosnian War, it is located about seven kilometers north-east of Višegrad, on the way to Gorazde.After the war, Vilina Vlas spa was re-opened as a tourist facility. Vilina_Vlas
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| Human rights in Hong Kong Human rights in Hong Kong occasionally comes under the spotlight by the international community because of its world city status. Pan-democrats claims that this can be used as a yardstick to judge whether the People's Republic of China has kept its end of the bargain of the "One Country, Two Systems" principle granted to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by its current mini-constitution, the Basic Law, under the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Human_rights_in_Hong_Kong
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| PaxEquilibrium/Archive1 User_talk:PaxEquilibrium/Archive1
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| Mahinda Rajapaksa Talk:Mahinda_Rajapaksa
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| Volksverhetzung Talk:Volksverhetzung
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| Capital punishment in Belarus The provision for Capital Punishment in Belarus has been a part of the country since gaining independence from the Soviet Union. The current national constitution prescribes this punishment for "grave crimes." Later laws have clarified the specific crimes for which capital punishment can be used. Capital_punishment_in_Belarus
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| Mohamed Daoud Chehem Mohamed Daoud Chehem is a senior civil servant, noted opposition leader and former presidential candidate for the Azuria Development Party (PDD) in Djibouti. Chehem is a member of the Afar ethnic group, and was part of the Afar rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) opposition movement. Mohamed_Daoud_Chehem
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| Battle of Cassinga Talk:Battle_of_Cassinga
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| December murders December Murders is generally used for the murder on December 8, 1982, of thirteen civilians and two military officials who opposed the military rule in Suriname. They were executed in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo. The circumstances have not become completely clear yet; at the time, the Suriname military dictatorship of Desi Bouterse claimed all were shot while trying to flee. Others have spoken of torture, murder and summary execution. December_murders
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| Caning in Singapore Caning is used widely as a legal form of corporal punishment in the city-state of Singapore. It can be subdivided into several contexts, namely domestic/private, school, reform school, military and judicial.Of these, judicial caning, for which Singapore is best known, is the most severe. Caning_in_Singapore
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