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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European Court of Human Rights opened a hearing on Tuesday, 22 March 2011, into a Roma woman's allegation that she was wrongly and forcibly sterilized at a state-run hospital in her native Slovakia because of her ethnicity. The case at the European Court of Human Rights centres on allegations tha...
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Belfast is home to some of the most famous political murals in the world, with most depicting some aspect of the conflict between the loyalist and republican factions in Northern Ireland. Almost 2000 murals have been documented in Northern Ireland since the 1970s, and not all are explicitly polit...
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Prostitution is legal and illegal in many parts of the world. The usual reasons for legalizing the profession of sex-work are in line with those for legalizing substance abuse, a) if made illicit, underground/black market thrives. b) More exciting when forbidden c) Prostitutes like substance abus...
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- im currently doing an advertising project at uni concerning the police and whether they were being to aggressive towards the G20 protestors.
can the police be justified for there behaviour?
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The government claim that the environment is one of their priorities. Yet this tax seems to send a different message. If we're going to make a move towards green energy sources, then we need to remove these financial disincentives.
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You cannot question your mark on an exam on 'academic grounds'. You can only make an appeal against a judgement if there was an 'extenuating circumstance' that affected your performance, or a possible 'administrative error'.
The 'administrative error' route is flawed as the university makes no...
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Britain is finally out of recession. However growth is not yet secure and there is the possibility that it may slip, exports rely upon the weak sterling that could change if the overall economy improves. The banks may be in a better financial position but carry on the same way they always did. Ov...
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Africa is the least developed continent of the world. The continent has major socio-economic problems. More than for any other continent the causes of Africa's problems come from the developed world. These problems are reaching a crisis point now, particularly because of global warming which has ...
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7% of the population frequently use sunbeds to top up their tans. This is hardly surprising, as the British sun cannot be relied on, fewer people are taking holidays abroad and celebrities continue to sport an envious sunkissed look. Yet, new research tells us that sunbeds do increase the risk of...
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that pouring more soldiers into Afghanistan is not the solution to Afghanistan's conflict. At some point the Afghan government will have to negotiate with parts of the Taliban if it is to survive when NATO forces do finally concede defeat. Is it better that neg...
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