The Council of Europe has documented the growth of this terrifying anti-Roma extremism in an exhaustive report published only a few months ago. Unfortunately the Canadian House of Commons Committee that heard testimony on the Government’s proposed refugee reform package, Bill C-31, did not call a...
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The Roma community in Turkey is beset with widespread unemployment, illiteracy, housing problems and poverty that account for their general marginalisation in society.
A dramatic improvement was achieved for them two years ago when the ruling AK Party initiated a dialogue between government o...
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does the election of president obama signals an end to racism in the united states?
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The constant debate that we see over and over again in the newspapers, once the A Level results have been sent out: Pupils from public and private schools get better opportunity at the best universities than those from state comprehensives. We even saw it in the 2012 Oxford - Cambridge Boat Race...
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Without meaning to, a representative of the Hungarian Government confessed to a Canadian Parliamentary Committee, on Wednesday, that his government has had a great deal of trouble controlling extreme right "militias" that persecute and intimidate the Hungarian Roma people.
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A report on the conditions faced by the Roma population across six EU countries has found that the current financial climate across the EU is having direct and indirect impacts on the integration and life chances of Roma; who are the largest ethnic minority in Europe.
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(U.S.) As government continues its intrusion into the lives of citizens with (among other things) ever-increasing taxes and regulations, a new attack on the culture of the family and family farms has begun. The Department of labor is now going to make it illegal for children of farming families ...
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Los medios han publicado muchas opiniones encontradas sobre la idoneidad de este viaje en época de crisis. ¿Que opinais?
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Should corporal punishment be legalised
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In sports people get payed at least $1.5 million for one game they played!!!
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Scotland is moving away from the rest of the United Kingdom. Is it now time for them to formally break ties and become an independent entity?
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The Council of Europe has documented the growth of this terrifying anti-Roma extremism in an exhaustive report published only a few months ago. Unfortunately the Canadian House of Commons Committee that heard testimony on the Government’s proposed refugee reform package, Bill C-31, did not call a...
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There are many religious sects with what many of us in the developed world would consider odd customs. As they appear so out of place the Mormons in the US are perhaps an obvious example, however should such societies have different laws from the country they are in? If they are an autonomous gro...
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What should we do to destroy plastic bags
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‘Champions of England’ or ‘Champions of Europe’ – to an outsider the decision as to which title is more preferable would appear to be obvious, but just how valid is this assumption?
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Churchill said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Essentially that democracy has many flaws and problems but all the others have more problems. Now authoritarian countries such as China are potentially ch...
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With the recent release of GTA IV, a role-playing game where players must commit crimes including homicide, car theft and drug dealing, the subject of violence in the media has been flung into the limelight again. Fingers have also been pointed at certain genres of music and films which portray v...
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If it's the world's oldest profession, why is it illegal? Should sex be treated as a commodity or is it sacred?
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Women are 'solely' responsible for the propagation and existence of the human race. Now with the creation of artificial sperm, a man's role in the process is void and unnecessary.
Statistically:Women live longer on average. Women deal better with stress.Women perform better in school. Women are...
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The Government have released a White Paper stating that by 2014 the police force should make annual savings of £500 million. There are numerous ways the Government have put forward to achieve this, but are the savings too ambitious without compromising on the quality and safety of our society?
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Stanley McChrystal has been fired from being the US commander in charge of the Afghanistan war. He had made comments about his colleagues such as "Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke... I don't even want to open it" about the US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. And ...
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Violence against women is one of the most widespread human rights abuses affecting the world today. Every day, thousands of women and girls are abused and murdered by their families, raped in armed conflicts and attacked for defending woman's rights. [[http://www.amnesty.org.au/svaw/]] We must ta...
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Currently, The European Union is making an enlargement policy in which four countries are granted the title “candidate”: Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia and Iceland. These four countries have made a notable progress towards EU in the recent years. They have already signed many contracts and standards ...
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Ring-fencing medical knowledge is one of the great grotesqueries of our age (Johann Hari). We live in a world where corporate profits come before hundreds of thousands of human lives. Where the production of cheap life-saving medication is not allowed by international laws that uphold the interes...
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As we get older we need less sleep, forcing teenagers at school to wake up for a long journey into school at the crack of dawn is counterproductive. They would do better starting school later to allow teens to sleep in and be properly awake when they start school.
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With pension time bombs sprouting across liberal democracies and more and more pensioners being brought below the poverty line this house would privatize pensions. This proposition supports a gradual phasing out of government pensions to be accompanied with a regulatory framework to ensure fair c...
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Dictatorship does not necessarily result in development, defined by human well-being(which incorporates education, health, income, and safety from internal and external threats)and even by personal discipline. Furthermore, there is no conclusive evidence proving that either dictatorship nor democ...
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“Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite -- motto of the French Revolution This debate is about the importance of recognizing in our social structures the fundamental equality of human beings, as human beings. It begs us to ask ourselves what it means to be democratic. The advent of the global age has led t...
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Women are 'solely' responsible for the propagation and existence of the human race. Now with the creation of artificial sperm, a man's role in the process is void and unnecessary.
Statistically:Women live longer on average. Women deal better with stress.Women perform better in school. Women are...
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We in Scotland believe that there is one nation that shines out to the world as a beacon of social justice. A nation that truly understands that the people need not just a daddy state, or a mummy state, but also a nanny state. This nation, ladies and gentlemen, is of course, Russia.
On July 1...
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In 1951 J.D. Salinger wrote his famous novel The Catcher in the Rye. It was proclaimed by hundreds of thousands as an amazing book a classic. But is it really a classic or maybe the worst book ever written?
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A year ago this month the Metropolitan Police launched ‘Operation Blunt Two’, a campaign designed to reduce knife crime and possession in London. Its main feature was the extensive use of stop-and-search teams in the capital’s boroughs, intending to discourage youngsters to carry knives and alert...
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There is a common European problem, but how it appears in various member states, and how it has to be translated into national strategies, differs from Romania to France, from Slovakia to Portugal, and we have to be aware of this," - László Andor, the EU commissioner responsible for employme...
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The cost of the goods and services we consume takes into account the resources, labour used to make them, as well as the transportation and administration costs involved. However, neither the consumer nor the producer pays for the environmental cost created by providing that good or service. This...
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'Dutch' who was in charge of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison and interrogation centre S-21 has been convicted of crimes against humanity. However he has only been sentenced to 35 years which is shortened to 19 due to time already spent in prison. For someone who has the blood of more than 15,000 ...
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It looks a lot like the campaign for attacking Iraq in 2002 and we know where that ended up. Commentators are beginning to get on an 'attack Iran' bandwagon. However it is a bandwagon that has now been on the road for a while so leaving many wondering whether it will ever really become necessary....
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A self-help guide which tells women to wear sexy clothes while cooking and cleaning as well as follow men's orders has become a hit in America.The Re-education Of The Female, by first-time author Dante Moore, advises women to follow their man's orders.Despite the chauvinist opinions, copies have ...
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Today, genetic modification seems to be the answer to everything. Yesterday the Times revealed plans for breeding genetically modified pigs in order to produce organs accepted by the human body to reduce waiting times for transplants. In the current global hunger crisis, GM foods could prove usef...
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The Tv licence is charged to every household in the Uk and monies used to fund the BBC, is this a fair method?
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A candidate for the role of the speaker has called for PMQ’s to be
scrapped while other candidates support moving the time saying that
"PMQ’s is like a ‘schoolyard, only worse". On the other hand, many American commentators bemoaned the lack of an equivalent when George Bush refused ...
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