The right to rule over them is the heritage of his son.

The Secretary General also touched on democracy, asserting that the right of people to choose how they are ruled and who rules them must be the birthright of all.

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The Ambas were a federation of sovereign but interdependent ethnocracies, each under a traditional ruler called Fon .

The President ruled by decree and none of the other government bodies had any real authority.

No amount of autonomy granted by an occupying Power could replace the legitimate right of peoples under colonial or foreign domination to seek freedom.

That right was applicable to peoples under colonial rule or foreign occupation, however, and should not be used to encroach upon the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity of a country.

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The right to choose how they are ruled, and who rules them, must be the birthright of all people, and its universal achievement must be a central objective of an Organization devoted to the cause of larger freedom.

THE RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SELF DETERMINATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO PEOPLES UNDER COLONIAL OR

Self determination was a right applicable only to peoples under colonial domination or alien occupation.

Iraq was afflicted with that scourge under Saddam's regime, whose policy was to rule or destroy people and property with all types of lethal weapons.

The Vienna Declaration recognized self determination as an inalienable right to the peoples under colonial domination.

VII. The right of peoples to self determination and its application to peoples under colonial or alien

57. Women s political empowerment was hampered by traditional perceptions of their role.

Clear social rankings were in place in the feudal society.

The country was governed by military decrees and the rule of law was not respected.

And therefore progress depended on learning how to reject the authority of learned men, priests, traditions and rulers.

Traditional political cultures and the rule of law

(a) Prompt establishment and broad public dissemination of the truth about what happened in regard to human rights violations during the preceding regime.

Life under totalitarianism was an extreme situation that requires us to apply special, nuanced rules to

The right to self determination applies to peoples different from that of the colonial Power and subjected to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation.

For most of that period the country was ruled by a series of more or less brutal military regimes.

Furthermore, we reiterate our conviction that it is the exclusive right of all peoples to decide for themselves which political institutions will govern them.

(c) Traditional political cultures and the rule of law

With regard to the exercise of political power, he said the majority of societies in the subregion had had and still retained traditional chiefdoms governed by chiefs elected by members of the ruling families or appointed by their predecessor.

Taking into account the particular situation of peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, the World Conference on Human Rights recognizes the right of peoples to take any legitimate action, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to realize their inalienable right of self determination.

The rule of law, democracy and human rights form a single entity that the emergency cannot break, either exceptionally or temporarily.

In these processes, which connect human rights, governance and rule of law issues, assistance from the United Nations system is of paramount importance.

Non Western political systems are typically archaic good rulers can sleep soundly at night, while bad rulers face continual danger of overthrow from the army or the streets. Most non Western peoples rely upon the ruler s personal virtues, not institutional limits on his power, to make their lives tolerable.

Free and fair elections bring power to people, thus eliminating the power of cleptocratic pseudo elites.

32. The draft resolution was without prejudice to the right of peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination to take any legitimate action to realize their inalienable right to self determination in accordance with the Charter.

Of course, Thaksin s rule had a dark underside corruption, legislated conflicts of interest, cronyism, human rights violations, and abuse of power, among other evidence of misrule.

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Still under foreign domination, and without sovereignty, India and China are down in the corner.

In the same vein, we wish to stress Kuwait's commitment to the unity, sovereignty and political independence of Iraq.

Peace cannot be achieved and freedom cannot see the light under occupation, domination and the denial of rights.

Recognizing that the High Commissioner Centre for Human Rights remains the focal point for coordinating system wide attention for human rights, democracy and the rule of law,

Paragraph 15 of that resolution referred to the right to self determination of peoples forcibly deprived of that right and the right of those peoples to struggle legitimately against alien domination.

Question of the impunity of perpetrators of violations of human rights (civil and political rights)

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It provides for a political system that is presidential in nature, but with a large degree of parliamentary oversight.