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• Torture
  '''Torture''', according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is: ...y civilians) in armed conflicts. Torture is also prohibited by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which has been ratified by 145 states.
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• United States
  ...the title was changed to read, "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America". ...of Confederation] announced, "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America'".
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• Children
  The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as "a [[human]] being ...b/k2crc.htm "Convention on the Rights of the Child"]. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. https://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2cr
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• City
  :c : a usually large or important municipality in the United States governed under a charter granted by the [[state]] ...l cathedral], hence the official [[status]] of St David's as a city in the United Kingdom despite its [[population]] of 1,797 in 2001.
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• Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
  ...its of Liberal Democracy; and Lloyd Axworthy and John Bolton on the United Nations
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• Rodeo
  ...s this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy [[tradition]] of the United States and Canada. ...of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western [[United States]], western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting event
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• Atom Bomb
  ...o nuclear weapons have been used in the course of [[warfare]], both by the United States near the end of [[World War II]]. On 6 August 1945, a [https://en.wi ...ted States, the Soviet Union (succeeded as a nuclear power by Russia), the United Kingdom, France, the People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, and North
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• Category:Contemporary Philosophy
  ...erial Japan]], continued colonial violence, the foundation of the [[United Nations]], the elaboration of new doctrines of [[human rights]], the [[Vietnam War]
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• Nationalism
  ...on promotion of its [[culture]] and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational [[groups]] ...mphasizes [[collective]] [[identity]] - a 'people' must be [[autonomous]], united, and [[express]] a single national [[culture]]. However, some nationalists
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• Suffrage
  ...]] to vote, which is sometimes denied those who have a legal right. In the United States, extension of suffrage was part of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja ...of [[government]] whereas the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States] does not offer initiatives at the federal level or in many states.
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• Viet Nam War
  ...the award-winning PBS history series, American Experience. Meanwhile, the United States, its military demoralized and its civilian electorate deeply divided The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as
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• Slum
  ...sing, squalor, and lacking in tenure [[security]]. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent
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• Unanimity
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_resolution United Nations Security Council] [[resolution]] is not considered "unanimous" if a member
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• Moon
  ...a programme] was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft, the United States' NASA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program Apollo program] ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty], [[free]] to all nations to [[explore]] for [[peace]]ful [[purposes]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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• 2010-04-10-A United World
  ===Topic: ''A United World''=== ...] is slowly moving toward that goal and many forms of government in some [[nations]] are close to realizing this [[ideal]]. However, the functionaries of thes
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• Genocide
  ...nocide''' [[scholars]], a [[legal]] definition is found in the 1948 United Nations [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_ ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials Nuremberg trials] that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international
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• Kryon
  ...nal channel for Kryon, and has been honored over the years by seven United Nations invitations to channel Kryon at the UN building in New York city. The Kryon
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• America's News Magazines
  ...entatives and Senate 1789 to 1817, covering the first 14 Congresses of the United States. :Journals of the executive proceedings of the United States Senate 1789 to 1980, covering the first Congress through the 96th Co
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• The Folded Up
  [81.7] And when [[soul]]s are united, [81.27] It is naught but a reminder for the nations,
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• 134:5 Political Sovereignty
  134:5.2 [[War]] on [[Urantia]] will never end so long as [[nations]] cling to the [[illusive]] notions of unlimited [[national]] [[sovereignty ...erce]], and [[conquest]], tribes become [[unified]] as a [[nation]], while nations themselves sometimes become unified by [[empire]].
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