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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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.
Partnered in the UK by t...
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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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The explicit use of the reporter as an agent of state intelligence is dangerous for journalists as well as for protesters of all types. It can only undermine democracy in Britain. In particular, those engaging in civil disobedience as at Dale Farm, will be made even more wary. As the general secr...
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"A new generation of Romani activists in the Czech Republic, of which Patrik Banga is a leading example, are criticizing their own people. They are getting a harsh reception and it is said they are doing Romani people more harm than good, but the opposite is true.
... If we continue to l...
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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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‘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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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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Many countries today have laws that prohibit smoking in public places because it affects non smokers as well.This damages their health against their will and could cause them lung cancer.But also it seems as though this law protects only one side and public places(which should be available to eve...
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Has the national curriculum exceeded its usefulness? In a fast-changing multi-cultural world isn't it time we scrap it for something more flexible?
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Should corporal punishment be legalised
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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 the proposition define the motion(LEADERS OF COUNTRIES THAT USE EXTRA-TERRITORIAL RENDITION SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES) as:'Leaders are responsible for the practice,execution and admission/permission of extra-territorial detention.They are wary of the covenants that they or their predecess...
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Young drivers, and even older ones, cause many fatal accidents; raising the minimum age at which people can drive might reduce this, but is it a benefit to society, and are the statistics true? We can help lower the accident rates if the driving age is raised to 18 so no more kids can get hurt or...
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A preliminary round to determine who will represent the U.S. in the World Online Debating Championship. Resolution: Assisted Suicide should be permitted.
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With the industrial development and the increasing problems of pollution,natural disasters and most importantly water and food deficiencies.What will become of the World?.Will the human generation die out due to wars?.And when will the predictions of the Bible and the Holy Quran come true.
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It can be observed that many Oxbridge, UCL and Imperial College graduates applied to management consultancy firms and investment banks to kick start their careers. It is known that working in these firms is very taxing physically and mentally and also involves extremely long hours and sometimes e...
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"Although the 1.5 million strong Roma minority in Romania are marginalised ... there has been some progress in terms of recognising their rights. Central to this progress is the right to self-identification and the use of the word "Roma". If the Romanian state were to do away with ...
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Details of John Terry's alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel (fellow England player Wayne Bridge's former girlfriend) received a temporary injunction from a court of England only for the injunction to be withdrawn eight days later. The argument is between Article 8 the right to privacy and Artic...
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Internet users who persistently swap copyrighted material on the web will have their connections slowed down or even stopped by their internet service providers, (ISPs) Lord Mandelson has announced.
The decision is an unexpected one after the government decided in June to let communications wa...
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Despite the popular image many traffic cameras actually cost more money to maintain than they bring in through speeding fines. Not surprisingly in the current austerity climate in Britain speed cameras are likely to be cut. The worry is that this will mean that more people will go over the limit ...
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The claim that housewives staying at home spending more time around their children are better, much-more-responsible/effective mothers than their career-mom counterparts.
But time: quantity equal quality?
Research on the subject is inconclusive, sometimes lauding the children of working mot...
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Swine Flu did not become a major epidemic as predicted by the government. The government stockpiled Tamiflu in case a pandemic did occur and now much of this has not been used. But, poorer countries may need Tamiflu to protect them from Swine flu.
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Chris Keats, the female NASUWT general secretary, announced that she thought it was unfair that teachers of sixth formers could be placed on the sex offenders list for engaging in a relationship with a sixth former over the age of 16. But should a teacher be allowed to pull sixth formers?
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I believe people who are on social welfare payments should be made to work in the community in order to continually receive their money every week.
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