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| | Global Beat:A Vote for Independence and Democracy: Taiwan's Election Complicate US-Asian Politics |
 | | Taiwan's march toward a separate identity and democracy has not pleased Beijing, which sent dozens of observers to Taiwan to watch the election. | | | Global Beat:A Vote for Independence and Democracy: Taiwan's Election Complicate US-Asian Politics | | | Altogether, the elections rendered a vote of confidence in President Lee Teng-hui's policy of maintaining Taiwan's independence in all but name and seeking greater international recognition, including membership in international organizations, even as it shuns a formal declaration of independence. |
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| | Democracy |
| | Democracy Watch (International) ( http://www.democracywatch.org) — Worldwide democracy monitoring organization. | | | Democracy is also related to the idea of constitutional government, setting limits beyond which a current majority in government may not step. | | | Democracy often aims in practice for the "least bad" of alternatives. |
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http://omniknow.com/essays/Democracy.html
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| | BUBL LINK: Human rights |
| | Report from Amnesty International describing violations of the human rights of women incarcerated in the United States. | | | Based on field research conducted by Human Rights Watch in northern Uganda during February 2003, the methodology includes interviews with eighteen children who had been abducted, and three others who are now young adults but were abducted as children. | | | Includes information on abuse committed by security forces and armed opposition groups, and instances of arrest, detainment and imposed death sentences. |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/h/humanrights.htm
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| | Democracy Watch (International) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Democracy Watch (International) is a service organization founded in 2003, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA with subsidiary offices in the Washington D.C., area. | | | The chartered purpose of Democracy Watch (International) is to monitor, record and disseminate information about functional democracy in as many nations throughout the world as possible. | | | Democracy Watch (International) web-site states that it is: |
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| | Burma Watch International - Commentaries |
| | A talk given at an evening in Edmonton AB (organized and co-sponsored by Burma Watch International, Robertson Wesley United Church and Interfaith) to commemorate the 13th Anniversary of the August 8, 1988 uprising of the people of Burma to demand peace, democracy and basic human rights. | | | Kilgour remembered the fallen freedom-fighters, honored the Mahadevi of Yawnghwe (one of the founding members of Burma Watch International), reviewed the responses of the Canadian government since 8-8-88 (and in particular the government's response since May 30 2003) and commented about democracy in Burma's future. | | | U Than Aung is the Vice President of Burma Watch International, an Executive Member of the Free Burma Coalition and a member of the Burma Strategy Group. |
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http://www.burmawatch.org/commentaries.html
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| | Narco News Was Right About Rob Allyn |
| | To not even ask Allyn about "Democracy Watch" is an ethical crime of journalism. | | | That your foreign campaign operatives created a phony human rights group, "Democracy Watch," to "monitor" the elections. | | | Allyn and the Fox campaign invented the phony group "Democracy Watch" and then invented a non-existent group of "businessmen" with a bunch of invented "concerns" about being seen as "anti-government." |
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http://www.narconews.com/roballyn1.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy |
| | World Citizen Foundation - Nonprofit nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to the design of solutions to international problems based on the fundamental principles of equal human dignity, liberty, democracy and constitutionally protected basic rights of all. | | | Democracy Watch - An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization seeking to empower Canadians as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers. | | | World Movement for Democracy - Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Democracy
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| | Open Directory - Society: Politics: Democracy |
| | Democracy Watch - An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization seeking to empower Canadians as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers. | | | World Movement for Democracy - Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition. | | | Ratifiers for Democracy - A democratic model that harmonizes representative and direct democracy, to ensure that legislation is citizen-mandated, and to be a loophole-free way to clean up the control that money and special interests now have in politics. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Democracy
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| | The Cat's Dream - About XXI Century |
| | Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, historians and international scholars will deconstruct the arguments relative to human rights and bringing democracy to Iraq that were brought by the Bush Administration as the main reasons to go to war. | | | All of this and much more are discussed by historians, international law scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and many others. | | | While the war against Iraq was approaching, many international organizations were working to foresee the effects of a new conflict on the civilian population and the Iraqi economy. |
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http://www.thecatsdream.com/productions/xxi/index.php
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| | The Albert Sloman Library: Human Rights Directory - list of non-governmental organisations involved in human rights |
| | Rights International - An independent, non-profit NGO supporting the Rights defined in the Universal Declaration. | | | The International Commission of Jurists - an international, non-governmental organisation whose global goal is to support and advance those principles of justice which constitute the basis of the Rule of Law and assist and encourage those peoples to whom the Rule of Law is denied. | | | Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. |
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http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/Human_Rights/ngos.htm
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| | religion and state Information and Resources - God Has A Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| | Watch Indians five watch cut secular muslims belief jehovah's witnesses monotheism religion and state, democracy messianic mormonism tribalism national interest hedley bull ethnic cleansing hedley bull heresies. | | | Fundamentalists when stop could days religious belief international relation persecution deism, chosen people persecution bureaucracy heresies democratic peace realist messianic fundamentalists. | | | Democracy change behind other instead democracy hedley bull fundamentalism idolatry democracy, kabbalah messianic church sovereignty constructivism religious tolerance politology jehovah's witnesses democracy. |
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| | DW (International)- About Us .......................................................................................... |
| | About Us Democracy Watch (International) (DW) is currently in its earliest stages of development. | | | Bearing these stern warnings in mind, it is the purpose of DW (International) to act as a true "Sentinel for Democracy", not flinching and not hesitating to sound the alert, whenever we might see the light of Democracy flicker or begin to grow dim. | | | DW (International) first begun in May of 2003 as a cooperative joint effort between |
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http://www.democracywatch.org/about-us.html
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| | China: Harsh Sentences for Labor Activists (Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, May 10, 2003) |
| | A copy of the activists' December 2002 indictment, obtained by Human Rights Watch, indicated the subversion charges were based on interviews the men gave to international media, contacts they had with Hong Kong-based human rights groups, and their alleged attendance at meetings of the China Democracy Party in 1998-99. | | | Previous Human Rights Watch statements on the case can be found at http://www.hrw.org/asia/china.php (English) and http://www.hrw.org/chinese/ (Mandarin). | | | Human Rights Watch called on China to drop all charges and to immediately release the two men. |
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http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/05/china051003.htm
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| | Gary Sick - SourceWatch |
| | If you find SourceWatch useful, please consider making a donation to its sponsor, the Center for Media and Democracy. | | | Gary Sick is one of the AIC (American Iranian Council)'s Board members, the leading lobby group for IRI, as well as the Director of Gulf 2000, an International Research project on policy developments in the Persian gulf. | | | Gary Sick is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and Acting Director of the Middle East Institute at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. |
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| | Egypt: Imprisonment of human rights defenders - Amnesty International |
| | The trial against Saad Eddin Ibrahim and 27 others, opened on 18 November 2000, and was conducted over a period of seven months over 15 sessions which were attended by observers of Egyptian and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights. | | | Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have expressed concerns that the charges against Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his staff were politically motivated.(4) Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a longstanding human rights activist, is the director of the IKCDS (5), founded in 1988, which is active in the field of democracy and human rights. | | | Amnesty International believes that the trial of Saad Eddin Ibrahim is the only case in which these restrictive regulations on funding have led to a conviction and that this charge has been selectively used against Saad Eddin Ibrahim as a human rights defender. |
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| | Democracy Watch Biographies |
| | A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, he has a particular interest in democratic process issues and is the Founder and the Coordinator of Democracy Watch. | | | He also led Democracy Watch to win the first-ever ethics court challenge of the federal government. | | | Josephine is now the International Secretary for the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) and continues to work at the community level with fellow volunteers on empowering people to stand up for their rights. |
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| | Links to Democracy, Democide, and War |
| | Human Rights Watch: International Criminal Court Fact Sheet | | | From the Report of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, 6 July 2000: Elements of the Crime of Genocide | | | Of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor John Shattuck's Statement on the U.S. State Department's promotion of: "Human Rights and Democracy" |
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http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/LINKS.HTM
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| | Democracy Watch (International) - encyclopedia article about Democracy Watch (International). |
| | Democracy Watch (International) is a service organization founded in 2003, based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA with offices in the Washington D.C., USA area. | | | Democracy democracy indicates a form of government where all the state's decisions are exercised directly or indirectly by a majority of its citizenry through a fair elective process. | | | It is the most used mechanism by which a democracy fills offices in the legislature, and sometimes in the executive, judiciary, regional or local government. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Democracy%20Watch%20%28International%29
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| | Biography of Professor Jagdish Bhagwati |
| | Jagdish Bhagwati, currently University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, was born in 1934 and raised in India. | | | Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. | | | Professor Bhagwati is described as the most creative international trade theorist of his generation and is a leader in the fight for freer trade. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/biography.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Popular vote |
| | The Democracy Watch (International) website, further defines fair democratic elections as, "Elections in which great care is taken to prevent any explicit or hidden structural bias towards any one candidate, aside from those beneficial biases that naturally result from an electorate that is equally well informed about the various assets and liabilities of each candidate". | | | It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials. | | | The nature of democracy is that elected officials are accountable to the people, and they must return to the voters at prescribed intervals to seek their mandate to continue in office. |
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| | Published by Liberia Analyst Corporation |
| | The Court released the detainees, but not before heated legal arguments between the state on the one hand, and the human rights lawyers from the Foundation for International Dignity (FIND), Liberia Democracy Watch (LDW) and the Green Advocates (GA). | | | Mensah to know that Liberia is at a crucial stage towards democracy and as such it would not accept the involvement of non-Liberians into the internal affairs of our body politics,” the LIDA release said. | | | The hullabaloo that has characterized the activities of the Liberia Agricultural Corporation (LAC) has taken a different dimension with a pro-democracy group, the Liberia Democracy Alert (LIDA), complaining the Ghanaian manager, George Quanteng Mensah, of the company to the Embassy of Ghana in Monrovia. |
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| | Nonviolent Struggle - Burma and the Middle East: February 2002 Issue: PeaceWatch: U.S. Institute of Peace |
| | During the meeting, Peace Watch interviewed Min Zin and Mubarak Awad, an expert on nonviolence and founder of Nonviolence International, Washington, D.C., and of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, Jerusalem, for this article. | | | When international sympathy for the Palestinian cause is aroused, "the Palestinians, with the help of the international community, should request a vote on a Palestinian state in the UN General Assembly, even if the United States rejects this proposal," Awad argues. | | | When Min Zin first joined the pro-democracy movement, he traveled to rural areas of Burma circulating leaflets among secondary school students demanding the release of the student prisoners and their readmission to school, organizing after-school protests, and giving anti-government talks. |
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| | Simpol-UK: Constituencies |
| | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights. | | | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights." | | | See the constituency watch section for information on encouraging your representative to sign the pledge. |
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| | Vietnam's Crackdown on Cyber-dissidents |
| | "Vietnam's crackdown on critics who use the Internet to peacefully disseminate their ideas or communicate with democracy advocates abroad appears to be escalating," said Minky Worden, electronic media director at Human Rights Watch. | | | (New York, June 17, 2003) - The Vietnamese government should drop criminal charges against cyber-dissident Pham Hong Son, Human Rights Watch said today. | | | Vietnam has been a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights since 1982. |
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| | Topica Email List Directory |
| | Our Current List of Endorsers are: 50 Years is Enough; Jubilee 2000 Global South; Corporate Watch; Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy; Economic Justice for Africa Now; the Free Burma Coalition and the Coalition for Dignity & Amnesty for Undocumented Immigrants. | | | Join us to tell the "leaders" of the world what real global human development is. On September 8th, bring your ideas of what democracy really looks like to the streets of New York City for a day of protest, direct action and international celebration. | | | The goal of the Millennium Summit of World Leaders must be to democratize political structures and the international economy to have any hope of elevating the quality of life of all the world's people. |
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| | Scraps of Moscow: The Turbulent Dnestr - Elections in Moldova |
| | A national poll by the International Republican Institute (an international pro-democracy foundation funded by the U.S. Republican Party) found that voters saw Russia as more of a partner than a threat by the lopsided margin of 68 percent to 25 percent. | | | Human Rights Watch's Moldova page (I confess that I took the title for this post from a long-ago published HRW pamphlet that I was able to order through Amazon but which you can also order on the HRW website). | | | We are picking up the seismic shock from the streets of Kiev in the little nation of Moldova, where we are helping the pro-democracy forces. |
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http://scrapsofmoscow.blogspot.com/2005/02/turbulent-dnestr-elections-in-moldova.html
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| | Simpol-UK: Constituencies |
| | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights. | | | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights." | | | See the constituency watch section for information on encouraging your representative to sign the pledge. |
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http://www.simpol.org.uk/constituencies05.php
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| | Simpol-UK: Constituencies |
| | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights. | | | Liberal Democrats believe that the UK must work through the United Nations and the EU and with the US to promote international law, democracy and respect for human rights." | | | See the constituency watch section for information on encouraging your representative to sign the pledge. |
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http://www.simpol.org.uk/constituencies05.php
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| | A taste of Africa: April 2003 Archives |
| | The peaceful conduct of elections opened a window for Somaliland's quest for international recognition, now the world will watch how the country and its proud people will nurture the birth of democracy in their hands. | | | Somaliland is experiencing the birth of democracy after going through a war that killed thousands of its people and pushed Somalis to flee outside the country. | | | Some people treat Somalilands political construction as an internal affair, simply because the country had been relentlessly refused international recognition. |
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| | Human Rights Watch: Asia |
| | Increased international pressure is necessary to protect civilians caught in the armed conflict between Maoist rebels and government forces in Nepal and prevent the conflict from spiraling out of control, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. | | | The letter represents more than 260 migrant workers organizations around Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia, and international advocacy groups such as Human Rights Watch | | | While South Korea is now led by a former human rights activist, has a government sprinkled with civil libertarians, and has made the difficult transition to a functioning democracy, when it comes to dealing with North Korea, it is still weighed down by the past. |
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