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  Concluding Observations/Comments - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
She also drew attention to the presence in the delegation of experts to address the situation of women in Scotland and Northern Ireland, where responsibility was devolved, and of representatives of different parts of the Government with responsibility for women's issues.
The Committee commends the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for having sent a large delegation with a high degree of expertise, which was led by the Director of the Women's Unit, Cabinet Office, and included officials from various branches of Government and from the Scottish and Northern Ireland offices.
It also notes that in the United Kingdom, and particularly in Northern Ireland, young female offenders are held in adult prisons, there are inadequate educational and rehabilitative programmes for women prisoners and they are often held in prisons situated far from their families.
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 United Kingdom - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
It is separated from the continent by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel, and from the Irish Republic by the Irish Sea and the St. Georges Channel.
Northern Ireland consists mostly of low lying plateaux and hills while the Mourne Mountains in the southeast include Northern Ireland's highest point, Slieve Donard at 852 metres (2,796 feet).
In Jan. 1972 Britain's EU membership was approved and in April, Prime Minister Heath imposed direct British rule on Ulster (Northern Ireland) after the IRA bombed and killed seven soldiers.
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 Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe
In Great Britain there is no judicial control of acts of Parliament, unlike in those countries in which there are constitutional courts or the control of the constitutionality of the legislative acts by the Supreme Court.
It is the Crown which is the cohesive factor of the State system of Great Britain (and the Commonwealth): laws are passed in the name of the Crown and in its name decisions are made by the highest officers of the State, responsible to parliament.
In the United States many parties and political groups nominate presidential candidates, but there are two really important political parties, the democrats and the republicans, who in the year of the presidential elections traditionally hold their party conventions in July or August.
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 Campaigning for a Socialist World - Socialist Party conference 2002
Britain is allegedly the fourth richest country in the world in terms of income, and yet much more than any other major European power, even before the effects of recession or slump, already has horrifying social conditions.
Northern Ireland, with segregated religious schools, is an indication of how they can aggravate racial and religious tension on all sides.
In Labour’s ranks are the very people who accused great fighters for socialism and the working class, including the socialists and Marxists in Liverpool from 1983 to 1987, of "corruption, literal corruption" (in the words of Roy Hattersley).
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 Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a political party in the United Kingdom.
The party published the newspaper Attack and was linked to a small number of incidents where green-painted bricks were thrown through windows, including that of 11 Downing Street.
The party stood a single candidate in the 1935 general election, a Mr.
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 Socialist Party archives - The 'Marxism' of the BICO (1975 pamphlet)
In the context of Northern Ireland the first can only be done by raising the slogan for the unity of the working class, Catholic and Protestant.
Above all far from working to bring it about, they tremble at the very prospect of a united Ireland because they are only too aware that if the might of the British army cannot hold the situation in check, their tiny forces and state resources would be paralysed from the outset.
Nor would they be capable of gaining the support of the northern Catholics who would never accept a cut in their social standards for the sake of 'unity'.
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 Socialist Party Statement on Britain
In an article titled 'Britain tops the league of shame', the Observer commented that "if you are a pensioner living in either the UK or Ireland, you are more likely to die during the winter season than in any other country in northern Europe".
A study by Professor John Hills, head of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, recently showed that 80% of people believe the gap between rich and poor is too large and less than a fifth believe ‘it’s necessary for prosperity’.
The official number of unemployed in Britain is at its lowest level for 30 years and long-term unemployment is among the lowest in Europe at present.
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 United Kingdom: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
In England, the great poverty and discontent caused by the war were intensified by the Black Death, a plague that reduced the population by about one-third.
Britain became the staunchest ally of the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Social networks of refugees in the United Kingdom: tradition, tactics and new community spaces.
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 Female Foreign Ministers
Executive Director of the Progressive Conservative Party 1957-66, 1966-69 National Secretary of the Party, MP 1972-89 and 1976 she was candidate for the Leadership of the Social Credit Party, 1984-86 Minister of Labour and Immigration, 1986-89 Minister of Culture and Communication (b.
She was Mayor of Luxembourg Ville 1982-99, Member of the Bureau of Chamber des Deputées, President of the Parti Democratique 1994-2004, Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2002 and from 2004 Member of the European Parliament.
She was chosen as the Christian Democratic Party's candidate for the primary of the centre-left Concertacion coalition, but she quit the race in May 2005 to pave the way for Michelle Barchelet's nomination.
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 After the British General Election: Where is Labour going?
Some observers have pointed out that it was the lowest figure of any democratic election in Britain, since the "khaki" election of 1918 when the soldiers had not yet been fully demobilised and women still did not have the vote.
It said that Britain under Tony Blair is in "deep crisis", blighted by ill health, poor education, and an incompetent government: "One in five adults in the land of William Shakespeare and Harry Potter is practically illiterate and barely able to add up the small change in his pocket."
Despite the fact that many Labour Party voters were so disenchanted, the efforts of groups like the Socialist Alliance and the Socialist Labour Party of Arthur Scargill to capitalise on the disillusionment of the workers with New Labour failed to make any impression.
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 U.S.-U.K. Social Security Agreement
Where a person is employed under the laws on coverage of one Party and self-employed under the laws on coverage of the other party for the same activity, he shall be subject only to the laws on coverage of the Party in whose territory he ordinarily resides.
Where the laws of a Party are applicable in accordance with Articles 4, 5 or 6 of the Agreement, the Agency of that Party, upon request of the employer, employee or self-employed person, shall issue a certificate stating that the concerned employee or self-employed person is covered by those laws.
The liaison agency of the Party with which an application for benefits is first filed in accordance with Article 18 of the Agreement shall inform the liaison agency of the other Party of this fact without delay, using forms established for this purpose.
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 Chapter 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
The treatment accorded by a Party under paragraphs 1 and 2 means, with respect to a state or province, treatment no less favorable than the most favorable treatment accorded, in like circumstances, by that state or province to investors, and to investments of investors, of the Party of which it forms a part.
Except in respect of a Tribunal established under Article 1126, and unless the disputing parties otherwise agree, the Tribunal shall comprise three arbitrators, one arbitrator appointed by each of the disputing parties and the third, who shall be the presiding arbitrator, appointed by agreement of the disputing parties.
Where a disputing Party asserts as a defense that the measure alleged to be a breach is within the scope of a reservation or exception set out in Annex I, Annex II, Annex III or Annex IV, on request of the disputing Party, the Tribunal shall request the interpretation of the Commission on the issue.
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 Political Parties Page
Socialist Party, USA - The party of labor leader Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas, who was probably America's most prominent socialist, The Socialist Party today is at the forefront of the "new socialist" movement.
Fatherland Party - Populist party, in coalition with the "All Russia" Party.
Party of the Hungarian Coalition - Party for the minority Hungarian population.
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 British Studies - Courses in Great Britain - Cameron University
Students are given the opportunity to study the physical and human environment of Great Britain by visiting the Roman baths and Georgian suburbs in Bath, the prehistoric stone circles in Avebury, the markets in Cardiff, and the medieval castles in Stirling and Edinburgh.
It is difficult to separate the history and culture of Great Britain from the personalities, politics, and policies of its monarchs.
From Magna Carta (1215) to the Glorious Revolution (1689) to current debates over Northern Ireland, the monarchy, and the powerful legacy of Thatchensm, British politics is a study in vivid ideas, clashing egos, sectional rivalry, polemical attack, and profound discourse.
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 The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review
This is an important perspective that is all-too-frequently neglected in the tendency to ascribe developments to great forces, not only in terms of social-economic determinism, the traditional approach on the left, but also with reference to the zeitgeist, which indeed offers a comparable form of determinism, and is much favoured in more recent modish writing.
If Hitler struck at the Soviet Union to get at Britain, repeating Napoleon's attempt to do so in 1812, in order to strengthen the Continental System (his attempt to shut Britain out of the Continent's trade), Lukacs is at great pains to argue that Stalin's response to Hitler powerfully reflected his own animosity to Britain.
The party line on these early paintings is that they show how the young Velázquez was able to use his precocious skills to dignify the humble; he was not just a court painter.
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 AIM25: British Library of Political and Economic Science: Youth Movement Archive
From 1932 it became known as the Green Shirt Movement of Social Credit and in 1935 it became the Social Credit Party.
The Kibbo Kift Foundation was formed by John Hargrave in 1977, with the primary task of acting as permanent owner of the archives and regalia of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and its successors, The Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and The Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
C J Hunt was successively Organising Secretary of the Economic Party (1929-1930), a member of the first Social Credit Party (dissolved in 1951) and of the Company of Free Men, a member and officer of the Social Credit Political League, and Treasurer of the Social Credit Political League.
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 century
The third occasion was in March 1988 when the printers (without the consent of the Editorial Committee) issued their own disclaimer at the end of an article on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland which had attacked the political gangsters of the IRA in the wake of the Enniskillen atrocity.
Particularly with the advent of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the various political and economic proposals of the reformers of the time to tackle it, the Standard came into its own.
Looking back on them now, it is hard to not be impressed by their elegance as pieces of social comment, and by their prescience and foresight at a time of rapid social change and uncertainty.
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 Part Two: Craft of the Wise? Pt 1
The forerunner of the wicca was the shaman in the oak forests of Northern Europe, who saw visions, interpreted the wishes of the Gods, and generally turned or bent the forces of Nature for communal benefit.
Hargrave was associated with both the Social Credit Party and the Kibbo Kift Kindred.
John L. Finlay's classic Social Credit : the English Origins contradicts this account, and specifically refers to "George Hickling of Coventry, the founder of the first Green Shirts before their absorption by Hargrave." (P232) A biographical sketch will help clarify Hargrave's dealings with both the Economic Freedom League and Hickling's green-shirted Crusader Legion.
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 USA An Illusion - Proof The Queen Amended Social Security Act
The reference to the Social Security (United States of America) Order 1984 shall be omitted in the Schedule to the Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1988[6] and in Schedules 2 and 3 to the Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1995[7].
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (a), a person will be considered to meet the second contribution condition if he is credited with at least 2 quarters of coverage under the laws of the United States in each of the last 2 complete contribution years before the relevant benefit year.
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (b), each quarter of coverage credited under the laws of the United States in the relevant contribution year shall be treated as if it had been a contribution period of thirteen weeks completed as an employed or self-employed person in the relevant contribution year.
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 Casino News & Articles - December 1, 2006
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Although there might be the odd unscrupulous person who racks up debts with the intention of subsequently declaring his or herself bankrupt in order to escape their creditors, there are unlikely to be many individuals falling into that category.
"Britain's gambling laws are undergoing wholesale reform and from September next year all operators must be licensed by the Gambling Commission".
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It was epitomised by the preelection deal struck between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, which would have seen Liberal Democrats in government for the first time since the early part of the century.
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 Casino News & Articles - November 3, 2006
Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Gibraltar, Malta, Costa Rica, Antigua and South Africa were among the nations attending, but U.S. officials declined the invitation.
Jowell said she believed that Britain's regulatory approach had won a "consensus" of support from organisations working with gambling addicts as well as the industry.
Caborn said Britain was sympathetic to a complaint made by Antigua to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) accusing the United States of protectionism of its gambling industry, but he stopped short of saying Britain would support the complaint.
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Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1)
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United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: London and South East Region (1)
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 Casino News & Articles - September 29, 2006
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He subsequently took up an appointment as director of the survey unit of the Social Science Research Council.
Britain since 1945: The People's Peace by Kenneth O. Morgan (Author)
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 Casino News & Articles - October 20, 2006
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