THE SUBSTANTIVE COMPONENT OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN LIGHT OF TARGETED KILLINGS AND EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICABILITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES AND TARGETED KILLINGS

When one aims to describe the human rights legality of targeted killings, one has to examine the right to life. The right to life is a natural and unalienable right of men. From the point of view of its subjects, the right to life requires that no man shall be killed arbitrarily, thus it ensures the life of the individual. From the relevant international conventions a two-folded obligation seems to flow: On the one hand, states have to respect the right to life of individuals, and in certain situations– based…

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF POST WAR CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION: REVIEW

War Conflicts affect the lives of people not only due to the large scale loss of lives, but also due to the destruction that it causes on infrastructure and livelihoods. Thus, War conflicts create a long term impact on social, economic and political systems making it difficult for societies to revive back to normal on their own. The period after war conflict poses several challenges for the communities and governments to recover the economic and social systems, while maintaining stability and achieving sustainable peace. The recovery process necessitates post conflict…

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NEEDFUL VOTER FRAUD DEFINITION : VOTER FRAUD AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIDENCE : PART II

Conceptual clarity is important in evaluating evidence of fraud. We begin with a discussion of what voter fraud is and what it is not. The first problem in defining voter fraud is that as a crime, it defies precise legal meaning. In fact, there is no single accepted legal definition of voter fraud. In fact, some states do not actually criminalize ‘voter fraud,’ although they all criminalize acts that are commonly lumped together under the term, such as illegal voting, providing false information to register to vote, and multiple voting.…

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MAJOR FOOD SOURCES AND ASSOCIATED ANIMAL AND PLANT DISEASES

With increasing globalization, the persistence of trans-boundary animal diseases (TADs) and plant diseases in the world poses a serious risk to world animal and plant agriculture and food security and jeopardizes international trade. In recent decades, the world has experienced devastating economic losses to farmers from major outbreaks of TADs, such as 1.    Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) epidemic in Great Britain (2001), 2.    Classical Swine Fever in the Caribbean and Europe (1996–2002), 3.    Rinderpest (RP) in Africa in the 1980s, 4.    Peste des Petits Ruminants in northern Kenya, India…

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FOCUS ON INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN OFFICE BUILDINGS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH PERFORMANCE AT WORK AND POSITIVE STEPS AND WAYS TO ACHIEVE GOOD INDOOR AIR QUALITY

A large part of the active population spends significant time in office spaces. In office spaces, specific sources and activities, such as the presence of printers & photocopiers & regular use of cleaning products that may produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs), raise the question of a specific kind of indoor pollution in these buildings. This indoor pollution is calculated into the Indoor Air Quality Observatory (OQAI) as a measurement. Poor indoor air quality in office spaces is associated with reduced worker performance. Numerous studies have been conducted under controlled conditions.…

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