Dictatorships - Human Rights
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Violations of human rights are a common feature in forced rule. In the book A Lexicon of Terror, the author shows the methods used to create to empower the illegitimate leaderships and suppress their opposition. The book also proceeds to show how in these regimes, violations of...
Against human rights - Slavoj Zizek
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Slavoj Žižek proposes an argumentthat goes against all the basis on the contemporarysocieties. He proposes that human rights are not as relevant as they are made to be. He uses the belief that human rights rests on three assumptions, reducing the ability of...
Libyan human rights
Case study - 3 pages - Political science
Libya has been plagued by various issues that have been repugnant to the attainment of the required levels of democracy. Traditions and norms applicable in the region have affected the nation in such a manner that the majority of the people has turned out to be less receptive to the attempts to...
The European Convention: Human Rights
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The European Convention on Human Rights, however, is a model of effective protection of human rights in that it has a binding force. This is possible due to judicial review of compliance with the rights enshrined in the first instance, the control of the...
Freedom of religion: an endangered freedom but protected by the European Convention on Human Rights
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
To quote Professor Catherine Teitgen-Colly, "political pluralism, respect for human rights and the rule of law have become true" statutory conditions ". In terms of the constituent rights of democratic society, the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Convention are...
The European Human Rights model
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
The interpretation as well as the application of international human rights conventions has never been an easy task. Even though the international courts have been tasked with the responsibility of interpreting the international human right conventions, the function of...
Gay rights and human rights
Essay - 1 pages - Other law subjects
All humans should share certain rights, regardless of their identity. However, this is not the case in multiple states. Our country has been rid of laws that discriminate based on race. Nevertheless, one discriminating factor is prevalent within our nation. Homosexuals are still...
Human rights violation in North
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Human rights are based on the rule of respect for human life and the individual. The fundamental supposition of human rights is that every person is a moral, rational being who deserves to be treated with reverence and dignity. Human rights are...
Public Law -The Human Rights Act 1998
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Protection of human rights has been the focus of many governments and states in the world. The United Nations, for instance, has put in place a number of rules and regulations that revolve around human rights and which all members should adhere. The United Kingdom is...
Exploitation of human rights of undocumented workers in the United States
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Undocumented workers area at risk throughout the American States and their lines are in danger. Their human rights are violated all times and their rights as workers abridged without the knowledge of the appropriate authorities. Protecting this group of people is becoming...
Applying cultural relativism to the universal declaration of human rights
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The world at present is composed of countless cultures, each distinctively represented by various languages, religions, and practices. Any individual attempting to study the concept of culture must do so with an open mind, and must also attempt to discard any ethnocentric ideologies. This...
Essay on human rights
Thesis - 10 pages - Social sciences
"Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end [...], but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature [...], would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?". There, Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Examination of human rights violations in the African nation of Djibouti
Essay - 2 pages - Political science
Surrounded by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, Djibouti is situated in the horn of Africa. This Easter African nation was populated by over 818.159 inhabitants in 2009, according to the country's census (Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de la Planification - Djibouti, 2010). Since its...
Women's Rights are Human Rights: An overview
Thesis - 5 pages - Constitutional law
Women make up 70% of the world's poor population and 65% of the world's illiterate. On average, women are still paid, 65 cents to every dollar earned by men in the Western countries. Women form a marginalized group, and these statistics only paint a fraction of the picture. Still, women...
International organizations and the protection of human rights
Thesis - 3 pages - International relations
This is the perception that certain behavior is required by law; a duty that is legally obliged. Customary law that is drawn from the practice of States accompanied by the opinion juris, is therefore a conviction that law requires the practice set. The performance of opinio juris would be in...
Law of international human rights and detainees at Guantanamo Bay naval base
Thesis - 5 pages - International law
Since the terror attacks of September 11 and the official war on terror has commenced, questions have been raised as to how the United States should engage itself in regard to both its military operations and treatment of enemy combatants. Debate over the United States applying rules of war,...
Habermas and Rorty - the existence of universal human rights
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Human rights have been taken for granted in the Western world. It was asserted that they were universal and every human being was entitled to them on the ground that he or she was human. These rights are considered as inalienable since they are inseparable from...
A letter to the United Nations commission on human rights
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
This is a letter asking you to consider the long-standing whaling conflict around the Makah tribe, in Northwest United States, as a human rights violation. The case has the potential to greatly impact the day-to-day lives of many Makah people, and to determine the continuation of a...
What are the common classical liberal assumptions about human rights and how are they criticized by Proudhon, Marx, Engels, and Bebel?
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
The United States declaration of rights proclaims three main rights: right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They are perceived as intrinsic to human beings. These principles were built in opposition to the monarchy and were supposed to ensure the people...
Human Rights of the Dead : Posthumous interests
Essay - 5 pages - Civil law
The question of death and the deceased is at the core of the definition of human rights. Dead persons do not perceive harm: they are not in contact with the world and are unaware of reality considering they do not exist. They cannot claim their rights neither can they file a...
Human rights report within Somalia
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
The subject of human rights in the international system is still a relatively new phenomenon, but one that is in dire need of undivided attention. In specificity, the occurrence of human rights violations requires attention and solution. Although there are countless...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is primarily a Western document, limiting the claimed universal applicability of Human Rights
Thesis - 5 pages - International law
On 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the Third General Assembly of the United Nations. In the aftermath of WW2, nearly every state that had fought with the Western Allies wanted the atrocities of Nazism and Fascism to be prohibited. To...
To what extent is the criminal justice system consistent with article 6 of the European convention on human rights?
Thesis - 6 pages - European law
At the heart of any legal system is the criminal justice system and it is a paramount that the system is fair in order to be effective—this is ensured through a fair trial, without which, the whole system would be illegitimate. We only have to look to the political ‘show trials' of the...
Anna Politkovskaya: A woman, journalist and human rights activist in contemporary Russia
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
am a pariah”. This is how Anna Politkovskaya defines herself in the beginning of a posthumous article published by The Guardian on October 14th, 2006. Seven days before, on October 7th, around 5 pm, she was murdered in her flat in still non-clarified circumstances. Her death occurred while...
Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé e Principe: Parties, influence groups and human rights
Essay - 6 pages - Journalism
The islands of Sao Tomé and Principe were colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and were then used as a slave trading point. Later in the 19th century they began to export cocoa. After the decolonization in 1951 the country finally came to independence in 1975. A one-party-regime was...
Fighting against AIDS: Acting for human rights and development
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
If developing countries have to cope with many handicaps setbacks as well as in terms of political development, then one of the main plagues that seriously affects these countries is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Indeed, 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV. Among them, 95% live in...
Violation of Human Rights at Guantanamo Bay
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
After 09/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration declared war to Al Qaeda. As Commander in chief of the Armed Forces, President Bush authorized the detention of non-American citizens considered as "enemy combatants" (Fogarty 2005, 54). A classified report prepared by Defence Department...
Human rights and domestic violence
Thesis - 8 pages - Social sciences
Human Rights Watch has estimated that 12,000 women a year die in Russia because of domestic violence; Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports close to 80% of women experience domestic violence; 49,280 rapes were reported in South Africa in 1998; and the CDC...
The universal human rights concept has its roots in western political thought, so can we say that it applies to all human beings?
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders...those are some of the many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) around the world based on the protection of human rights. Given they are international organisations, does it mean human...
Is it a human rights violation and not enforcing the law
Thesis - 13 pages - Civil law
In Deshaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a U.S. state's failure to protect an individual against private violence generally does not constitute a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. The court reasoned that while the...
