Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There have been many incidents of torture by police," said Richard Zassissieh, the Zimbabwe country specialist for Amnesty International. "Zimbabwe is a place where the press are struggling to maintain their freedom and [there is] state-sanctioned harassment of journalists...
...minister of state security was to call the paper back, according to Chavunduka. Finally, after receiving no response from the army or the minister's office, the paper went to press and the article was published...
Bentham took issue with the open-endedness of human rights--rights that exist prior to the state or any other agent that can secure them, Sen said...
...according to Sen, there are ethical imperatives that exist prior to any state, and it is from these imperatives that the concept of human rights draws its strength...
...recently mandated "state to state" relations between the PRC and what the communist regime sees as its "renegade province." Although Lee is considered more of a talker on the independence front--who would consider unification after certain democratic reforms--his stance nonetheless added KMT weight to the drive for independence...