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4 hours ago · Creating synergies between different social security benefits and services as well as with other public-sector institutions is key to the development of an inclusive and cohesive society that protects individuals and fosters their skills, talents, resources and capabilities. This way, social security provides support, creates opportunities and empowers individuals through their life cycle ...
4 hours ago · Democratic backsliding can end democracy in a gradual manner, by increasing emphasis on national security and eroding free and fair elections, freedom of expression, independence of the judiciary, rule of law. A famous example is the Enabling Act of 1933, which lawfully ended democracy in Weimar Germany and marked the transition to Nazi Germany.
4 hours ago · Definitions Definitions of literature have varied over time. In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books and writing. Literature can be seen as returning to older, more inclusive notions, so that cultural studies, for instance, include, in addition to canonical works, popular and minority genres. The word is also used in reference to non-written works: to "oral ...
4 hours ago · For example, the phenomenon "Human flesh search engine" in Asia raised the discussion of "private-law" brought by social network platform. Professor José van Dijck contends in her book The Culture of Connectivity (2013) that to understand the full weight of social media, their technological dimensions should be connected to the social and the ...
1 day ago · Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. [nb 1] An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of all pregnancies. [2] [3] When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is called an induced ...
1 day ago · Philosophy. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...
1 day ago · The English law on abortion was first codified in legislation under sections 1 and 2 of Malicious Shooting or Stabbing Act 1803. The Bill was proposed by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough to clarify the law relating to abortion and was the first law to explicitly outlaw it. The Act provided that it ...
