Palau Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998


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Presents the "Palau Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998," which was released on February 26, 1999 by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Discusses the countries respect for human rights in the areas of personal freedoms, political rights, civil liberties, discrimination, and worker rights.




Report on Human Rights Practices Country of Palau


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Palau is a constitutional republic. The president, vice president, and members of the legislature (the Olbiil Era Kelulau) are elected for four-year terms. There are no political parties. In the generally free and fair elections held in November 2008, Johnson Toribiong was elected president. Security forces reported to civilian authorities. The most significant human rights problems in the country occurred in the areas of government corruption and discrimination and abuse of foreign workers. Other human rights problems that occurred during the year were domestic violence and trafficking in persons.




Palau: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices


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The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor presents the "2000 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" for Palau, which was released in February 2001. The report provides an overview of the country and discusses the respect for and abuses of human rights in Palau.







Freedom in the World 2004


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Freedom in the World contains both comparative ratings and written narratives and is now the standard reference work for measuring the progress and decline in political rights and civil liberties on a global basis.










Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child


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"The Handbook aims to be a practical tool for implementation, explaining and illustrating the implications of each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the two Optional Protocols adopted in 2000 as well as their interconnections."--P. xvii.




Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations


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Tallinn Manual 2.0 expands on the highly influential first edition by extending its coverage of the international law governing cyber operations to peacetime legal regimes. The product of a three-year follow-on project by a new group of twenty renowned international law experts, it addresses such topics as sovereignty, state responsibility, human rights, and the law of air, space, and the sea. Tallinn Manual 2.0 identifies 154 'black letter' rules governing cyber operations and provides extensive commentary on each rule. Although Tallinn Manual 2.0 represents the views of the experts in their personal capacity, the project benefitted from the unofficial input of many states and over fifty peer reviewers.