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Chaitlin, Julia and Dan Bar-On. "Emotional Memories of Family Relationships During the Holocaust." Journal of Loss and Trauma , vol. 7, no. 4, 2002, pp. 299-326. Academic Search Premiere , doi: 10.1080/10811440290057701.
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Yi, Kei-Mu. "Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?" Journal of Political Economy, vol. 111, no. 1, 2003, pp. 52-102, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/344805.
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Flores, Rosa. “A debt-free college for students who struggle more.” CNN.com , 2 Sept. 2016, www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/health/chicago-community-college-arrupe/index.html. Accessed 7 Sept. 2016.
Demaria, Robert. British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology . 4 th ed., Wiley, 2016. Ebook Central , ebookcentral.proquest.com.dml.regis.edu/lib/ca/detail.action?docID=4205823.
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University of Mississippi English Department. The Mississippi Writers Page . U of Mississippi, 2008, mwp.olemiss.edu.
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United States Dept. of State. “U. S. Relations with Belarus.” Bureau of Public Affairs, 6 Sept. 2016, www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5371.htm.
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Gup, Ted. Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life . Doubleday, 2007.
Book Chapters
Higson, Andrew. “The Concept of National Cinema.” Film and Nationalism , edited by Alan Williams, Rutgers UP, 2002, pp 52-67.
Print Journal Articles
David, Craig R. “A Perfect Marriage on the Rocks: Geoffrey and Philippa Chaucer, and the Franklin’s Tale .” Chaucer Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 2002, pp. 129-44.
Wasserman, David, and Alan Strudler. “Can a Nonconsequentialist Count Lives?” Philosophy & Public Affairs , vol. 31, no. 1, 2003, pp. 71-94.
Newspaper Articles
Barron, James. “Broadway Stars, Out a Bit Early.” New York Times , 18 Feb. 2003, late ed., pp. B1+.
Encyclopedias
Kersten, Holger. “Tramps and Hobos.” American History through Literature: 1870 – 1920 , edited by Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, Scribner’s, 2006. 3 vols.
Government Publications
United States Dept. of Education. Helping Your Child Succeed in School . Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, Government Printing Office, 2002.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter . Directed by Robert Ellis Miller, performances by Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke, Warner Bros., 1968.
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When citing from a specific page in a work, include the last name of the author, and the page number(s). When referring to one work by one author , use the following format:
The Marriage-Go-Round is about the conflicting values of individualism and marital commitment in American culture (Cherlin 19).
When the author’s name is already clear from the narrative of your paper , include only the page number within the parentheses at the end of the sentence:
Kovats-Bernat found that street children are active participants in Haitian society and culture (6).
When quoting a source, include the parenthetical citation after the quote:
“For the children who live on them, Port-au-Prince streets are deeply personal and subjective spaces, as these children identify with the street as their home” (Kovats-Bernat 36).
When citing from an entire work , include the last name of the author(s) but do not include page numbers in the parenthetical citation (if using).
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A work by two authors: (Hartmann and Slapničar 89)
A work by three or more authors: (Martens et al. 293)
A work by an organization: (National Center for Health Statistics 12-13)
A source with no author: If no author is available, shorten or abbreviate the title of the source so that it is easily identified. When using a title (or part thereof) in an in-text citation, place quotation marks around an article or book chapter; italicize a book title: (“Palau officially” 20)
An indirect source: If the original source is unavailable when quoting or paraphrasing a quote, write “qtd. in” before the author and page(s): (qtd. in Smith 54)
A web source: Follow the previous examples based on the author, if needed. Page numbers or URLs are not necessary in parenthetical citations for online resources. Parenthetical citations may not be needed for sources from the web.
A journal article : If in print or PDF form with page numbers available, include in the citation. If in HTML form or other digital form without page numbers, do not include them.
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On May 20, 2024, the Punjab Provincial Assembly passed the Punjab Defamation Act 2024 amid strong protest from opposition lawmakers and media stakeholders. It was signed into law on June 7 by Acting Governor Malik Ahmed Khan.
The bill’s Statement of Objects and Reasons (p.10) says it
envisages legal protection from false, misleading, and defamatory claims made via print, electronic, and social media against public officials and private citizens. These claims and assertions violate peoples’ privacy and damage the reputation and image of public figures or the government by defaming, slandering, and libeling them. This Bill is necessary to contain such unwarranted criticism and dislike for a person or authority.
As reported by Dawn news , the bill was vetted by a special committee instead of a typical standing committee, and on May 13 was moved and tabled by Punjab Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman. A request was made from opposition lawmakers for proposed amendments and a delay in voting, which was rejected.
Main Features of the Law
Section 3 of the act makes “defamation” actionable as a “civil wrong” and a person can initiate an action “without proof of actual damage or loss and, where defamation is proved, General Damages shall be presumed to have been suffered by the person defamed.” (§ 3.) Defamation is defined in the act to mean:
publication, broadcast or circulation of a false or untrue statement or representation made orally or in writing or visual form either by ordinary form or expression or by electronic or other modern medium, means or devices or through social media or any online or social media website, application or platform, which injures or may have the effect of injuring the reputation of a person or tends to lower him in the estimation of others, or ridicules him, or exposes him to unjust criticism, disliking, contempt or hatred, and such defamation shall also include comments, statements and representations targeted towards certain genders and minorities as contained in section 14 of this Act. (§ 2(h).)
A person accused of defamation shall have a defense if he can show that:
Absolute privilege pertains to the publication of statements, reports, notes and proceedings made in federal and provincial legislative assemblies. Qualified privilege applies to “[a]ny fair and accurate publication or broadcast of parliamentary proceedings, or judicial proceedings which the public may attend and statements made to the proper authorities in order to procure the redress of public grievances.” (§§ 5, 6.)
Section 8 gives the provincial government the authority to establish civil tribunals to try defamation cases. Under section 13, defendants must file an application seeking permission from the tribunal to defend the claim against them. If the defendant fails to obtain leave to defend, “the allegations of fact in the claim shall be deemed to be admitted and the Tribunal shall forthwith pass a preliminary decree of General Damages in favour of the Claimant on the basis thereof or such other material as the Tribunal may require in the interest of justice.” “General Damages” are set under the Bill at a minimum of 3,000,000 rupees (around US$10,750). (§ 2(k).)
If the case proceeds beyond the preliminary decree and the claim is proven, the tribunal can also impose “special” damages. (§ 2(w) & 21.) In case of “false, frivolous and vexatious claims,” the tribunal shall order “punitive damages” against claimants. (§ 20.)
In addition to damages, the tribunal has the authority to order the defendant to “tender an unconditional apology” and also to “issue a direction to the relevant regulatory authority to suspend or block the social media account of the Defendant, or any other medium or platform covered by this Act through which the defamatory content was disseminated.” (§ 21.)
Cases against persons who are “holders of a Constitutional Office” are instead tried by a special bench of the Lahore High Court. (§ 10(4).)
Reaction to the Law
Opposition lawmakers and media stakeholders have protested against the passage of the law for not taking into account proposed amendments to the bill and that “opposition members of the special committee were not present during the vetting of the bill.” Human rights groups also criticized the haste with which the bill was passed, with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan stating that “[f]ive days is too short a period for any meaningful consultation with civil society and digital and mainstream media stakeholders on what is a complex legal proposal affecting an entire digital ecosystem of opinion makers.”
The International Federation of Journalists and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists condemned the bill, “highlight[ing] its potential to be weaponised against critics of the governments.”
The bill was signed into law by the acting governor after Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider, who had previously expressed reservations about it and pledged to consult with media stakeholders before signing it, took leave to travel abroad . Hours after it was granted assent, journalists challenged the law before the Lahore High Court as being “ unconstitutional, unlawful and against the principles of the law .” On June 12, the Court placed a temporary suspension on certain sections of the law pending a final judgment.
Tariq Ahmad, Law Library of Congress June 26, 2024
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