Arbitrary arrest and detention

Constitutional Amendment and Miranda October 28, 2015 Argosy University, Atlanta Hicks, Sandra, Student Constitutional Amendment and Miranda The Supreme Court case law makes up the majority of what is called, The Constitutional Law and according to the rule of stare decis, the judges must make decisions that are directed by cases that were previously settled. The Bill of Rights and its’ amendments to the Constitution were…

‘We cannot succeed when half of us are held back’ How true is this quote by Malala Yousafzai and how does this relate to Human Rights violations? It’s hard to define what human rights are; there is just too much to consider. Generally, human rights are simply referred to as the rights a human has. Of course, there are heaps of rights worldwide aimed towards certain groups of people; however, human rights are the only set of rights that are applied to everyone, universally. That includes everyone…

basic Roman law and further encompasses customary practical safeguards to accused persons.” According to their constitution, which was composed in 1978, they prohibited from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. To ensure detainees rights, similar to across the Atlantic over in the United States, the maximum they can be held in detention is 72 hours. Detainee’s are also obligated to the reason they were arrested, required to have their rights be read to them and have the right to be present at…

Human Rights Violations in the era of crisis: The violation of women and children’s rights in the ongoing civil war in Darfur region in western Sudan. Prepared by: Hasan Abbakar Mohammad (September 2015) Introduction ‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled…

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group that has lived in Myanmar for centuries. Today, more than a million of Rohingya people are living in Myanmar, mostly in the western coastal state of Rakhine. They use their own language, and they have their own culture. However, Rohingya people claim that they have a long historical connection to Rakhine State. There are many conflicts and clashes between the Rohingya and the government, as well as some other ethnic groups in Rakhine. When Myanmar…

Ethiopia has been governed by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front since they apprehended the capital city and ended the Ethiopian Civil War in 1991. Members of the Tigrayan ethnic group established a minority of Ethiopia 's population. Nevertheless members of this ethnic group control the superior positions in the country 's political and military structure while the majority of Amhara and Oromo people are cut off, which make up the majority of the population. The country has…

Imagine living in the extremely dictated country of North Korea. You would never be able to leave the country’s limits because of the restrictions Kim Jong-Un has enforced among all of the North Korean citizens; North Korea’s leader has put on the country. The discrimination against North Korean’s by their leader is highly unfair and should be stopped immediately. North Korea has been a communist country and controls their people since 1918, democracy is a better way of life and not all are…

The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, more popularly known as the Tiananmen Square Incident or Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of student-led demonstrations in Beijing during 1989. The student-led protests were forcibly suppressed by tanks and armed troops 2 weeks after the government declared martial law and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops into Beijing. The death toll is still widely debated.The protests happened during rapid economic and social developments in China. The students…

Imagine that you are out at night driving a nice convertible and your feeling great because you have such a nice car. Then all the sudden you hear sirens and see flashing lights and it’s a police car right behind you. You then pull over because you know speeding off on the road would just make things worse. So after pulling over to the side of the road the police officer approaches you and start asking questions, for example, “where did you get this car”. Right then and there you know you didn’t…

Chapter 1: What is the historical event about? The Final Solution: The mass killing of The Holocaust 1.1 Concept of Superiority and Anti-Semitism After the World War I, Adolf Hitler who was the leader of a political organization called Nazis, became the dictator of Germany in January 1933. During his rise to power, he successfully convinced the people to believe that Germans with fair skin tone, blond hair and blue eyes were the superior form of human which was also known as the master race of…