Rights Of The Children
Development of children's rights
The international community concerned with the children's rights has issued in the last 75 years more than 90 international documents. For the first time were children's rights addressed in the "Geneva Convention" in 1924. Further recognition of child rights was adopted in the United Nations on 20 November 1959. These documents, however, still did not provide one hundred percent of the protection for the children. In the early sixties the members of the UN have decided to develop internationa...

Miranda Rights by New Hampshire Lawyer Mark Stevens 1-603-893-0074
The Rights Defined in Miranda v. Arizona by New Hampshire Criminal Defense Lawyer Mark Stevens 1-603
Know your rights, and exercise them! You have the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer when the police interrogate you. This page deals with the rights clarified by the landmark United States Supreme Court 1966 decision of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436. Ernesto Miranda (Miranda's booking photo is on the left) was a laborer whose Arizona state convictions for kidnapping, rape and armed robbery became the subject of the landmark Miranda case in the United States Supreme Court. T...

Rights
Natural Rights and Freedom
When I was young, I read a story about a cave of riches that were opened by a boy named Ali Baba when he said the correct words. The idea that a world of wonder could exist behind a door, a door invisible to all except those who know it is there, fascinated me. As the years went by I came to understand that there was more truth to that than I ever imagined. The magic contained in words is the ideas that are contained in the words. VICTOR HUGO once remarked: "You can resist an invading army;...