China is providing different governments, with little protection of human rights, with telecommunications technology, facial-recognition hardware and analytical tools to process data. These technologies are then combined, in order to create advanced surveillance systems that can be used for policing, such as identifying political and social threats. But it also serves repressive purposes and can therefore strengthen authoritarianism. China’s export of these systems started to increase in 2012, and since 2016 it has increased even more rapidly. Many of these technological systems are on the border between public security, control…
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WAR CRIMES INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
After the end of the Second World War, the allies entered into two agreements. These were the Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis (London Agreement) and Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Charter). When the Nuremberg Trials started, the accused, all Nazi Party members who actively participated in the Nazi Regime’s activities in various capacities, were charged on four counts. These were:- a. Conspiracy to commit aggression. b. Commission of aggression. c. Crimes in the conduct of warfare. d. Crimes…
Read MorePROTECTED AREAS AND COMMUNITY LAND RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Human actions to conserve the Earth’s biodiversity have a deep history, in which the main actors are Indigenous Peoples and local communities who have stewarded lands and resources across generations as part of their cultures and ways of life. This local conservation, which is inseparable from customary lands and resources, is distinct from the formal national and international conservation enterprise that took shape in the context of nineteenth-century colonialism, but has been greatly affected by it. Expropriation and exclusion Conservation protected areas began to be established in an era of…
Read MoreTHE APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RECRUITMENT
The application of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in Human Resources Management (HRM) was one of the most remarkable trends among recruitment professionals from 2018 onwards. The researcher defines information extraction as a process where information and knowledge can be gathered by scanning a text. Especially in recruitment of new employees, AI can be used by information extraction techniques that can make the process of resume scanning and extraction of relevant information automated. Since the number of job applications have increased and can even overwhelm Human Resources (HR) departments, automated systems that ranks…
Read MoreMAJOR COMPONENTS OF SOIL HEALTH AND SOIL HEALTH DYNAMICS
While different authors have suggested many different ways to systematize soil health measures, they all share a common framework. Soil health can be parsed into three primary components : physical characteristics, chemical characteristics, and biological characteristics. Within each of these three components – physical, chemical, and biological – exist many possible soil health characteristics and indicators. The three major components of soil health: physical, chemical, and biological. For each, we identify what we argue are the most economically meaningful characteristics in the component. By economically meaningful, we mean the characteristics…
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