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Unwanted pregnancies and abortion in Sweden, the balance Benoit GEOFFROY Mid Sweden University, department of social work Introduction Unwanted pregnancy is a worldwide problem that often leads to abortion, both legal and illegal. In Sweden since 1975, the year the actual Abortion act was promulgated, the average number of abortions is around 30.000 a year (Wilow K & Liber AB, 2000), but this number is increasing and reached 38.053 in 2000, as against 30.771 10 years earlier. More generally

1 Robotic Warfare, Human Rights & the Rhetorics of Ethical Machines Jutta Weber DRAFT to appear in: Rafael Capurro / Michael Nagenborg / Giugelmo Tamburinni (eds.): Ethics and Robotics. Deutscher Akademieverlag (in preparation) Abstract Killing with robots is no more a future scenario but became a reality in the first decade of the 21st century. The U.S. and Israel forces are using uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) in their so-called wars on terror, especially for targeted killing

Ben is the nickname for the great bell) of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is often extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well. Big Ben is the largest four-faced chiming) clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world. It celebrated its 150th anniversary in May 2009 (the clock itself first ticking on 31 May), during which celebratory events took place. The clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower

The Globalization, as a factor of instability of World Economics Globalization, is often associated with the notion of «international financial integration» it’s a controversial term, some people regard as benefactress to the world economy and some other are qualifying it as «anarchy leading to disequilibrium»; This notion is also a polysemic term, that is to say which has many definitions and we will see that it will generate many upheavals in the world. That mutation is linked to the technological

first published in 1880 in the anthology Les Soirées de Medan. Often considered his greatest work, "Boule de Suif" was published the same year that Guy de Maupassant made his poetic debut with Des Vers. The theme of the anthology of short stories was the Franco–Prussian War from a decade earlier. Other writers contributed, including Émile Zola and J. K. Huysmans, but it was Maupassant's short story, often considered the best example of naturalism, that has reigned as the most famous. Maupassant is

Costa Rica, the Central America law firm, University Professor at the UNED Master in European Studies Programme and Universidad de Costa Rica, International Public Law Lecturer. He graduated from the Université de Genève, in Switzerland where he obtained his “Licence” in Swiss Law, and after, in Lausanne, Switzerland where he obtained an LL.M. in European and International Economic Law. These studies were validated by the Universidad de Costa Rica. He also holds a Degree in Transnational Law from Duke

Political Theory http://ptx.sagepub.com/ Afghani on Empire, Islam, and Civilization Margaret Kohn Political Theory 2009 37: 398 originally published online 10 March 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0090591709332339 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ptx.sagepub.com/content/37/3/398 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Political Theory can be found at: Email Alerts: http://ptx.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://ptx.sagepub

With the example of Rasputin with the Tsar's family and the influence it has had on this family, we note that the influences between the public (at the time the Tsar) and private sector has always existed in Russia. Rasputin was a wandering mystic who was presented to the Tsarina Alexandra in 1905. During this presentation, Rasputin relieved of his hands the young Tsarevich Alexis suffering from hemophilia. Following this event, Rasputin went indispensable and had a growing influence on the Tsar's

Resource-Rich Countries: The Case of Oil Exporters Francisco G. Carneiro¥ The World Bank Africa Region Abstract: This paper discusses some of the challenges that confront oil-rich developing countries in their development path. These challenges include Dutch disease-related phenomena, macroeconomic volatility, weak governance, and constraints to institutional capacity development, which although are not inherent to these countries are likely to be accentuated in the presence of abundant natural