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Liberation is based on the word liberty, related to the word liberal, and it is often understood as "to be freed (or change) from not having freedom to having freedom". A major use of the word is the act of the (forcible) removal of unwanted control of an area, person or people by an outside (sometimes military) force. Some have used the term to refer to the removal of sexual inhibitions. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Human sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings. ...

In Ghana, Togo and Benin, the term "liberation" has been used to refer to the winning of freedom for shrine slaves that had been held in ritual servitude. The kind of liberation has been achieved through the intervention of NGO's because in 1998 the practice of ritual servitude was made illegal and punishable by a mandatory three years imprisonment, but the practice continued. NGO's were able to negotiate community-wide agreements to end the practice and free the shrine slaves in many places, but involuntary servitude still continues in other shrines. Ritual servitude is practiced in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines take young girls as slaves in payment for the services of a traditional religious shrine or as a sort of living sacrifice in an attempt to atone alleged misdeeds of a family member, almost always a male. ...

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Media

• Libération, a French newspaper.
• Libération (Morocco), a Moroccan francophone daily newspaper.
• Liberation an American pacifist magazine founded by A.J. Muste

Libération (affectionately known as Libé) is a French newspaper founded in Paris in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. ... Liberation is a daily francophone Moroccan newspaper of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party. ... Pacifist may mean: an advocate of pacifism. ... Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885_February 11, 1967) was a socialist active in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. ...

Music and media

• Liberation (Bunny Wailer album), a 1989 reggae album.
• Liberation (The Divine Comedy Album), a 1993 album.
• Liberation, a song from the Pet Shop Boys, which appears on their 1993 album Very.
• Liberate, a song from Disturbed off their album Believe
• Liberation (Mýa album), a 2006 R&B album.
• Liberate, a song by Slipknot off their self-titled album.

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Computer games

• Liberation: Captive 2, a computer game for the Amiga CD32.
• Killzone Liberation, the PlayStation Portable sequel to the PlayStation 2 game Killzone.

Liberation was an Amiga game written by Byte Engineers and published by Mindscape in 1994. ... Killzone: Liberation is the sequel to the PlayStation 2 video game Killzone, due for release on the PSP sometime in 2006. ...

Religion

• Liberation in eastern religions, another word for enlightenment or moksha (also called mukti).

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Movements

• A name given to various social movements such as Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation.

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Warship

• the 1944 defeat and expulsion of Nazi Germany from France by the victorious Allies (see Military history of France during World War II).

France, along with the United Kingdom, was one of the first participants in World War II after declaring war on Nazi Germany following its invasion of Poland in 1939. ...

See also

• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Emancipation (disambiguation)

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