ETHNICITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE

Article I of the Universal Declaration of Human rights adopted by the United Nations in December, 1948, holds: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article II stipulates that everyone is entitled to the rights set forth in the Declaration without distinction of any kind, including race, colour, sex, language. In the view of many American ethnic people the question of human rights and ethnicity has been and still is one of the most neglected aspects of the revival of ethnicity as a factor in American life. In fact, in some ethnic circles there is concern that the issue of human rights is overly abstract and international, and that ethnic groups need to concentrate on American issues

Periodic Abstinence: Definition, Motivation and Research

One of the Jesuit priests playing an organ. (11 January 1955) [Photo by Boleslaus Lukaszewski, Original number PHO 1.176a.26

A test of the electromagnetic theory of the hydrogen vortices surrounding sun-spots

The extensive fields of force shown by the spectroheliograph in the hydrogen atmosphere surrounding sun-spots have been explained in two different ways: (1) as true hydrodynamical vortices, resembling great tornadoes, and (2) as electromagnetic phenomena, in which charged particles moving in the solar atmosphere are constrained by the magnetic fields in the spots to follow their lines of force. The principles involved in the electromagnetic theory have been applied to the explanation of the terrestrial aurora by Stormer, who has also developed this theory for the case of sun-spots.(1

[NASA's Manned Flight Programs- Gemini and Apollo] News Release

Manned space flight research projects - Gemini and Apoll

Luso-African trade and settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau regions, 16th-19th centuries

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 24This paper examines the economic, social, and cultural influences of Luso-Africans living along the Gambia River and in the Guinea-Bissau region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in terms of two general themes. The first is the significance of the sustained economic, social, and cultural ties between the Cape Verde Islands and the Guinea-Bissau region which began in the fifteenth century, and which continue to the present day. The second concerns how interrelationships between African societies, incoming Portuguese and Cape Verdean "strangers," and their Luso-African descendants changed over time