European Convention on Human Rights

(1) protect public morals and the chosen measure must be (2) necessary to accomplish this objective. The concept of ‘public morals’ refers to ‘standards of right and wrong conduct maintained by or on behalf of a community or nation’ and ‘can vary in time and space’ , depending on ‘social, cultural, ethical and religious values’ . In the European Community (EC)-Seal Products , the Appellate Body found that the prohibition on the importation of seal products in order to protect animal welfare…

Introduction Every human being has a right to representation in the face of law. This might be through an appointed body or by self. It is for this reason that human rights activists and other such like bodies put much effort to enlighten and ensure that this case is observed at all costs (MCBride, 2006). In a case of crime, the law purports that the guilty party must be proved beyond doubt that they actually did act in manner that will beyond reasonable doubts attribute them to the crime.…

Introduction The representation of Africa and African people in popular American media has been a major concern in academic disciplines and the subject of numerous books and essays. Many scholars and activists have written about this issue seeking to introduce new knowledges and methodologies into the debate while taking into account the overwhelming evidence of the colonial influence on these representations. The debates and arguments are not restricted to Hollywood films (although Hollywood…

Abortion has been a controversial ethical topic ever since the renowned Roe v. Wade decision permitted women to have the right to have an abortion. Thomson’s main argument is that the right to life is not an absolute right, and therefore in some cases abortion is morally permissible: those three cases being 1) the right to life does not include the rights to another person’s body without the person’s voluntary consent (cases of rape), 2) the fetus is a threat to the pregnant woman and 3) the…

and very important that is fairness level of Man and Woman. Now a day everywhere we are hearing that man and women should have equal rights and Woman must have equal rights like as man. In legitimate law it is very well explained that woman must have all the rights of independency to live his life accordingly his own way of life and woman must have acquire the rights which man has already acquired. Although woman and man must have real friends in every step of life and will be treated as equal…

Introduction “Rights are difficult to define because of their foundation in natural law, which is a notoriously ambiguous concept.” The concept of rights from the perspective of natural law theorists, which denotes that the foundation of rights is derived by the virtue of moral principles and human beings reason, is a notoriously ambiguous concept. In other words, human beings, by way of practical reasoning, possess certain moral rights. Therefore, natural law theorists argue that law and…

civil liberty is the freedom to pursue the general will. In Rousseau’s Social Contract, the general will is an important concept and it is defined as the will of the people as a whole. It cannot be transmitted and it is always right. To put the general will in context, human beings would act according to the general will if we were not depraved by society. In Chapter II, Of the First Societies, he explains his famous phrase by using the institution of family as the oldest and the only natural…

The Rwandan Genocide is a depiction of a time when the global community turned its back on human rights violation. The leadership of the UN and the “functioning of the Secretariat” along with its key member states all contributed to the UNSC failure to deal effectively with the Rwandan genocide. The states of the international community were ignorant…

world should have their own disability act. I believe this because if everyone around the world were created equal, not just US citizens who are disabled should be accommodated, people who have different values and standards should not be denied the right, and every person should…

Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System, a shareholder of the Hershey’s company, filed a complaint seeking the right to inspect the company’s corporate books. Their shareholder’s goal was to examine if the Hershey’s Board of Directors allowed illegal child labor activity into it business model. (Manza 390). The illegal activity the company allowed was allowing a human rights violation to occur with the labor of children in West African cocoa production. (Manza 389). The labor was…