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[Talisker]

........would appear to be somewhat lacking.

Unlike most countries, especially in the European Union (EU), there is no comprehensive monitoring of the human rights situation in North Cyprus.

Women do not have fully equal human rights as men have in North Cyprus.

Disabled persons live in an inappropriate environment, facing serious problems such as discrimination, limited education, limited accessibility, lack of transportation and housing as well as employment difficulties.

Although, the ethnic structure of Northern Cyprus is heterogeneous, the constitution does not recognise minority rights to any group and there are no minorities represented in the parliament. It is estimated that some 369 Greek Cypriots and 124 Maronites remain in the Turkish Cypriot administered area living in the regions of Morphou and Karpassia. Greek Cypriots and Maronite residents are prohibited from participating in Turkish Cypriot "national" elections.

Trafficking in persons is a major visible area of human rights violations in North Cyprus which is a destination country for trafficked women from countries such as Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. Human trafficking appears to be on the rise in North Cyprus as it is worldwide.

Juvenile detainees and pre-trial detainees are incarcerated together with convicted criminals thus violating basic laws and creating a major social problem.

North Cyprus remains the sole EU territory where male homosexual sexual acts are criminalised.

Investigation into violations of the main children’s rights in North Cyprus is necessary, the main areas of concern being: violence against children, juvenile justice, social services, education and awareness raising.

The issue of property rights in North Cyprus is a major area of concern and one which is inevitably tied into “The Cyprus Problem” while being used on both sides of the Green Line as an excuse to not fully respect human rights relating to property.

The issue of the approximately 2000 missing Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots who disappeared during different periods of violent conflict on the island, in particular the events of 1963 and 1974, are a part of the complex historical developments that make up the Cyprus problem. In the past, political forces on both sides have used the issue of the missing to justify arguments that the other side is an inhuman enemy never to be forgiven. The politicisation of this issue has had devastating effects on the relatives of the missing for whom, unlike the politicians, finding or learning “the truth” about the whereabouts of their loved ones is the overriding priority.

Most of the migrant worker population in North Cyprus originates from Turkey. While those who have been in North Cyprus for many years have been better able to integrate with Turkish Cypriot society, a large portion of more recently arrived immigrants are subject to different forms of discrimination and exclusion from society. Frequently there are clear signs of the existence of racism and prejudice against Turkish immigrants reflected in biased media coverage.

Source: http://www.ktihv.org/Eng/content/view/43/13/

[YFred]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

[Talisker]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

[YFred]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

[Oracle]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

You are a fuckwit, Yfred!

No rightful minded person could excuse such atrocities as blithely as the forum moron Yfred!

[YFred]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

You are a fuckwit, Yfred!

No rightful minded person could excuse such atrocities as blithely as the forum moron Yfred!

How can you post without noticing the Greek word in my sentence. I took so much care to include it and you ignored it. You are such a disappointment.

[Oracle]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

You are a fuckwit, Yfred!

No rightful minded person could excuse such atrocities as blithely as the forum moron Yfred!

How can you post without noticing the Greek word in my sentence. I took so much care to include it and you ignored it. You are such a disappointment.

The only disappointment is you with your very partial knowledge .... fuckwitfred!

Maybe YFred is after ignoring the fact he is viewed as illegal in the occupied north, for his homosexual acts

[YFred]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

You are a fuckwit, Yfred!

No rightful minded person could excuse such atrocities as blithely as the forum moron Yfred!

How can you post without noticing the Greek word in my sentence. I took so much care to include it and you ignored it. You are such a disappointment.

The only disappointment is you with your very partial knowledge .... fuckwitfred!

Maybe YFred is after ignoring the fact he is viewed as illegal in the occupied north, for his homosexual acts

What? I do think it's time you returned to the island of Lesbos, they are missing you old girl.

[Oracle]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

You are a fuckwit, Yfred!

No rightful minded person could excuse such atrocities as blithely as the forum moron Yfred!

How can you post without noticing the Greek word in my sentence. I took so much care to include it and you ignored it. You are such a disappointment.

The only disappointment is you with your very partial knowledge .... fuckwitfred!

Maybe YFred is after ignoring the fact he is viewed as illegal in the occupied north, for his homosexual acts

What? I do think it's time you returned to the island of Lesbos, they are missing you old girl.

Another example of your stupidity, paralleled by the occupied north ...

Thank you moron!

[Talisker]

It's amazing what economic suffocation that we apply can produce and the beauty of it is we can deny all responsibility for it too. What a wonderful world. Onward into the hell we go friends.

I take it you are speaking in riddles?

It's a free world and we are at liberty to take it any way we please, dear friend. We are all citizens of this tiny space called Cosmos. How on earth are we to share it. I claim 37.5% and that's being fair.

With your idea of 'being fair' I can see why the pseudostate you support has such a sorry record on human rights violations. You seem beyond help YFred, but perhaps there are some people in the 'TRNC' who might like to know that their 'masters' should be aspiring to the Articles within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps you are not aware of this declaration - so here it is. Which of the articles would you prefer to ignore?

Article 1.
•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 2.
•Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
•Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
•No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
•No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
•Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
•All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
•Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
•No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
•Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
•(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
•(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
•No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
•(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
•(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
•(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
•(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
•(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
•(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
•(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
•(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
•(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
•(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
•(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
•Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
•Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
•(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
•(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
•(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
•(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
•(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
•Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
•(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
•(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
•(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
•(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
•Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
•(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
•(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
•(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
•(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
•(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
•(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
•(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
•Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
•(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
•(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
•(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
•Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/