The revolution's effects on the institution of slavery were felt throughout the Americas. The end of French rule and the abolition of slavery in the former colony was followed by a successful defense of the freedoms the former slaves won and, with the collaboration of already free people of color, their independence from white Europeans. The revolution represented the largest slave uprising since Spartacus' unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic nearly 1,900 years earlier, and challenged long-held European beliefs about alleged black inferiority and about slaves' ability to achieve...

Kurdish mythology includes Kurdish and Yazidi myths and legends. The Kurds have a very rich folklore, which until recent times has been transmitted mainly through songs, tales or oral histories, from one generation to another. Even if some stories of great Kurdish authors were famous throughout Kurdistan, most of the stories recited and sung were only written in the XXe and XXIe centuries. Many of these, however, are traditionally centuries old.Very varied, Kurdish folklore denotes a great diversity of stories about nature, anthropomorphic animals, chimeras, love, heroes and villains,...

Transhumanismus als neue Idee in der politischen Philosophie ist wahrscheinlich ein beliebtes Forschungsgebiet, daher definieren wir ihn einfach als soziale und philosophische Bewegung, die sich der Förderung der Forschung und Entwicklung robuster Technologien zur Verbesserung des Menschen widmet. Solche Technologien würden die menschliche Sinneswahrnehmung, die emotionalen Fähigkeiten oder die kognitiven Fähigkeiten verbessern oder steigern sowie die menschliche Gesundheit radikal verbessern und die menschliche Lebensspanne verlängern, und der Transhumanismus umfasst auch Anti-Aging und...

Minority rights protection was for the first time formally included within the international legal framework following World War I, through the League of Nations' Minority Treaties. However, the League of Nations was dissolved in 1946.After World War II, minority rights received significantly less attention, with the notable exceptions of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which includes minority rights protection under Article 27.The collapse...

Myanmar's population is known to be incredibly diverse, with hundreds of ethnic nationalities with distinct religions, languages and histories residing in the country. Ethnicity and religion are central identity markers in Myanmar. However, these identity markers have been politicized throughout Myanmar's contemporary history, particularly during the British colonial period, the early independence period, and the decades under military rule. In regard to the role of the crisis in Rakhine state, social divisions between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas have been present in the...