The first democratically elected female Prime Minister was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, who took over the leadership of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party when her husband was assassinated in 1959. Bandaranaike successfully led her party to victory in three elections, in 1960, 1970 and 1994, howev...
Tags:worldfestivalcelebrationholidayindependence dayfreedomstatehood Country name Date Year Note AfghanistanAugust 19, 1919Independence from United Kingdom control over Afghan foreign affairs in 1919. AlbaniaOn November 28, 1912(Dita e Pavarësisë) Declared by Ismail Qemali in 1912 and signalled the...
. . . no one really needs such a thing in the first place. This love of liberty . . . is nothing more than a kind of snobbism. The freedom I knew as a child was of a different kind. First, and I think most significantly, it was not something I was given. It was something I ...
Russia has scored poorly in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index and experienced democratic backsliding according to both the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index and Freedom House's Freedom in the World index (including a record low 20/100 rating in the 2017 Freedom in ...
it is permitted; it is not wrong. And we have on the other extreme those who have returned, with permission, to the Mass of 1962 and, as others have noted, it is thriving and growing. But it is not what the Council itself specifically had in mind, although it is the Mass of the ...
English Blog:http://astruggleforfreedom.blogspot.de/ Twitter: @dustandtrash Protesilaos Stavrou. Contributor for The Daily Journalist Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parlament Political analyst and political economist Specialize in the European Union and the Euro Area ...
During his first term as Prime Minister, his government oversaw a large increase in public spending and introduced the National Minimum Wage Act, Human Rights Act, and Freedom of Information Act. His government also held referendums in which the Scottish and Welsh electorates voted in favour of...
Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human ...
and automobile club memberships. It serves individuals with limited access to other sources of consumer credit, such as banks, credit unions, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina....
Index of Names and Subjects 15th Lok Sabha 16th Lok Sabha 1918 Influenza epidemic 1962 War Abdul Ghaffar Khan Academic economics Academic fraud Academic freedom Academic research Accounting and audit ACLU AD Shroff Adam Smith Aesthetics Afghanistan Africa Agriculture Ahimsa Ahma...