philippine ‘democracy’

It has the novel practice of requiring a term limit of 12 years for a legislator, the period of which is counted in any combination of four-year state senate and two-year state assembly terms.It appears that this term limit is counted cumulatively and not necessarily consecutively.Therefore, when a..

the human rights reports: shaping diplomacy abroad

Subsequently, Secretary Pompeo issued an open letter to the Cuban government, urging them to release political prisoners and abandon their efforts to curb freedoms of association, assembly, and speech. . ... U.S. officials also hosted a discussion with the Iranian diaspora at the UN General..

ondcp

Late in the year, South Korea, National Assembly approved amendment to the country's drug laws that will pave the way for the use of marijuana by prescription, and New Zealand also approved it December Not year for medical marijuana.. ..

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us state department decries china's 'remarkably awful' treatment of

The annual report said repression of the freedoms of speech, religion, movement, association, assembly of Tibetans in Tibet Autonomous Region and other Tibetan areas and of Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities Xinjiang worsened and was more severe than in other areas of the country... ..

president bhandari holds high-level meetings

., event organised by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the President of United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. ... In the afternoon, the President met with María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the President of United Nations General Assembly, and appreciated her for..

prez bhandari reaches new york for csw

The event is being hosted by United Nations General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces on the occasion of the Session of Commission on Status of Women.. ... She will focus on the key question, 'how leadership is essential to address today's global challenges She will also meet..

un / aids report

few United Nations Member States have lived up to the agreement outlined in the outcome document of United Nations General Assembly Special Session on World Drug Problem to establish effective health measures to improve health outcomes for people. ..

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