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  2. Human security - Wikipedia

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    Human security is a paradigm for understanding global vulnerabilities whose proponents challenge the traditional notion of national security through military security by arguing that the proper referent for security should be at the human rather than the national level. Human security reveals a people-centred and multi-disciplinary ...

  3. Security of person - Wikipedia

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    Security of person. Security of the person is a basic entitlement guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. It is also a human right explicitly defined and guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the Constitution of Canada, the Constitution of South Africa and other laws ...

  4. Security - Wikipedia

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    A security referent is the focus of a security policy or discourse; for example, a referent may be a potential beneficiary (or victim) of a security policy or system. Security referents may be persons or social groups, objects, institutions, ecosystems, or any other phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by the forces of its environment. [3]

  5. Health security - Wikipedia

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    Health security is a concept that encompasses activities and measures across sovereign boundaries that mitigates public health incidents to ensure the health of populations. [ 1 ] It is an evolving paradigm within the fields of international relations and security studies. [ 2 ] Proponents of health security posit that all states have a ...

  6. International security - Wikipedia

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    The list of human security threats is broad, but can be narrowed under seven main categories: economic security, food security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security. [40] Some examples include human trafficking, disease, environmental and natural disasters, degradation, poverty ...

  7. Social programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Welfare in America. The United States spends approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs including cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. Similar benefits are sometimes provided by the private sector either through policy ...

  8. Physical security - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is the deployment of security personnel conducting checks for authorized entry at predetermined points of entry. This form of access control is usually supplemented by the earlier forms of access control (i.e. mechanical and electronic access control), or simple devices such as physical passes.

  9. Responsibility to protect - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2005 UN political commitment. The responsibility to protect(R2Por RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assemblyat the 2005 World Summitin order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansingand crimes against humanity.