Many poor countries provide legal protection for workers that rivals that in the most welfare-minded western European countries.

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Wickham, the group's executive director, says Polst programs provide legal protection to medical personnel for hastening death, thus encouraging imposed death on patients.

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It would bar blatant abuse of detainees in questioning, but it would also give the administration authority to decide how far to go in interrogating suspects and provide legal protection for U.S. interrogators.

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His Equality (Marriage) (Amendment) Bill is designed to provide legal protection for those who back the current definition of marriage - he points to the case of a man demoted at work for comments on Facebook that gay marriage was "an equality too far" - and he wants to make sure people like teachers, foster carers and others are not disciplined for their beliefs.

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Therefore, the Government of Bolivia proposed in 1973 to add a Protocol to the abovementioned Universal Copyright Convention as revised in 1971, in order to provide a legal framework for the protection of folklore.

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Combine that with the fact that the legal systems of these havens provide little real protection for those defrauded (the con-artists would disappear with the money anyway), and a brew is created that would make any would-be trust settlor very nervous.

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This model from the U.K. may have useful features to provide due process and equal protection to U.S. citizens and legal residents who use Islamic arbitration panels in the United States to resolve their disputes.

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