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And as for private persons standing up to the government in court, the idea was utterly inconceivable.
There is also a moral and practical case for doing more to ease the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons.
The National Democratic Institute has begun to reimagine refugee camps and camps for internally displaced persons as places where citizens can “find their voice” as voters and participants in democratic processes.
Roughly a third of Darfur’s population has been forced from their homes and are now in displaced persons camps inside Sudan, where they remain subject to the Janjaweed terror, or in equally vulnerable refugee settlements in Chad.
After all, it has been more than a half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, which treats the material needs of all persons as a fundamental human right.
But widespread corruption of officials leads to a mistrust of all government officials, and discourages honest and able persons from working for the government.
Even in Europe and the United States, officials in the higher level jobs usually earn much less than persons with comparable skills and responsibilities in the private sector.
At least 80,000 people have died, there are almost 1.5 million refugees, and the number of internally displaced persons has risen above four million.
For example, the agenda calls for the provision of “universal access to safe, inclusive, and accessible green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons, and persons with disabilities” by 2030.
One promises to achieve “full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities.”
Until the reforms that began in 2005, two-thirds of shares were non-tradable and held by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) or legal persons, which are typically state-controlled entities.
PAYG taxes workers to pay benefits to currently retired persons.
Since so many workers do not pay social security taxes, the dependency ratio, the number of retired persons per each worker who actually pays social security taxes, has been only a little below one, among highest ratios in the world.
All employer social security contributions are still used to finance benefits to retired persons.
I believe that both retired persons and workers in these countries, and those in Eastern and Central Europe, would welcome privatization if they know how successful the transformation has been in Argentina, a nation with more difficult economic problems than even the most stagnant European economy.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in middle-aged persons and children (after accidents), and we can’t explain why, for most forms of cancer, death rates are higher for blacks than they are for whites.
By contrast, the skilled-unskilled wage gap of employed persons only increased modestly in Germany, France, and most other Western European countries.
But most European nations experienced a distressing change during the late 1980's and the 1990's in their employment situation: the number of persons without jobs has expanded greatly.
Outsiders include the unemployed, and persons who exit from the labor force either because they despair of finding work, or are induced to leave by generous retirement and disability benefits.
By contrast, in France only 55% of persons in these age groups have jobs, in Germany less than 58%, and the employment picture is still more dismal in Spain, Italy, Sweden, and some other nations in Europe.
They call on governments to abolish discriminatory legislation and remove discriminatory language from official publications; to provide the same range and quality of health care to persons affected by leprosy as to those with other diseases; and to promote social inclusion.
But the international community has become ever more intrusive in using legal remedies against persons who engage in provocative and dangerous speech.
Russia’s recent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as separate republics, despite their de facto autonomous status within Georgia since the early 1990’s, will make it more difficult to find solutions to the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and the resident population in the conflict zones.
For example, the UN High Commission for Refugees helps to alleviate the problems of displaced persons, the World Food Program provides assistance to malnourished children, and the World Health Organization supports the public health information systems that are crucial for dealing with threats from pandemics like avian flu.
It is paradoxical that although older persons are much healthier and living considerably longer than they did fifty years ago, government policies have driven most of them out of work into retirement.
In 1998, these other acts were clarified to mean false imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution of a group, enforced disappearance of persons, and apartheid.
And it culminated with the red-brown cells that, even today, on sites that I prefer not to mention, offer “grub” and a “hideout” for persons willing to “bump off” the “bosses” on the chancellor’s “payroll.”
The proposed targets range from the ambitious (“end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria”) to the peripheral (“promote sustainable tourism”) to the impossible (“by 2030 achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities”).
In a January speech, and an accompanying presidential policy directive, Obama ordered American spies to recognize that “all persons should be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their nationality or wherever they might reside, and that all persons have legitimate privacy interests in the handling of their personal information.”
Under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which put an end to decades of violent hostility between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, Britain agreed to permit the free movement of persons, goods, and some services across the border with the Republic of Ireland.
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