Bringing the colonies in line.Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. will offer citizenship to residents in its remaining colonies and will, among other things, require that colonies match European standards of human rights, foreign secretary Robin Cook said March 17. "Specifically, we require changes in the law in a minority of overseas territories which retain corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. and criminalize crim·i·nal·ize tr.v. crim·i·nal·ized, crim·i·nal·iz·ing, crim·i·nal·iz·es 1. To impose a criminal penalty on or for; outlaw. 2. To treat as a criminal. consensual homosexual acts in private," Cook said. The British territories affected include Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Road Town, on Tortola Island, is the capital. Population: 21,700. Noun 1. , the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Pitcairn islands, the St. Helena islands, and the Turks and Calcos islands. |
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