Badawi received 50 public lashes in January, inciting world-wide protest the rest of his lashings have been postponed due in part to his poor health. Apostasy is the abandonment of a religion, in this case of Islam a conviction of apostasy usually guarantees a death sentence in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Qatar, Sudan and other Middle Eastern countries. Raif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, was awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize following his 10-year jail and 1,000-lash sentence for “insulting Islam” and apostasy in 2012. She is the second person to hold office as president, as she will replace Ram Baran Yadav, who was elected in 2008.
Bhandari has promised to support minority and women’s rights as president of Nepal. More than half of the shipwrecks date to 300 to 600 A.D., and most date between 700 and 31 B.C., encompassing the Late Roman Period, the Archaic Period, the Classical Period, the Hellenistic Period and the Late Medieval period.īidhya Devi Bhandari, women’s rights campaigner and current vice-chair of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal, was elected president by Nepal’s parliament on Oct. The Fourni archipelago is located between Samos and Icaria in the Aegean Sea, and experts said the Fourni used to be the only safe place for ships to dock as they traveled to and from the Greek mainland. Underwater archaeologists discovered the shipwrecks as part of a first-time joint Greek-American expedition in the area over 13 days. The 17-square-mile Fourni archipelago, a group of 13 islands and islets, is the site of 22 shipwrecks, credited as one of the top finds of 2015. More than 20 shipwrecks found around Greek archipelago The policy has been widely criticized due to the preference of boys in China often, if first-time parents discover their baby is female, they will opt to abort the child and try again for a male to carry on the paternal bloodline.
Those who violated the policy are severely punished with fines, unemployment and even forced abortions. It has prevented an estimated 400 million births. The policy has many exceptions ethnic minorities and parents who are only children are exempt, and those who live in rural, sparsely populated are allowed to have two children if their firstborn is female. The family planning policy, better known as the one-child policy, was enacted in 1979 after China’s population boomed from 540 million in 1949 to 940 million in 1976. China will reportedly end its one-child policyĪccording to a statement from the Communist Party, couples in China will be allowed to have two children now that China’s population growth has stabilized, resulting in an aging population.
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