Children's rights in the United Kingdom

Richard Beer, the author of Save the Children’s commercial “Most Shocking Second a Day Video”, is an Executive Creative Director of fall Together Now. Richard Beer is originally from London, United Kingdom. He is a Word nerd, storyteller and Creative Director, who Loves creating content to touch people’s heart. The purpose of Beer’s video is to make people all over the world aware of the war in Syria, which has going on for over five years and has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a…

“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time”(Lyndon B. Johnson). The United Nations was founded in 1945 by 51 different states including the United Kingdom. The UN was formed to unite the world and establish world peace. The UN formed the Security Council to take responsibility of world peace and security. The council consists of 15 members, five of the countries are permanent members with veto power, and the other 10 on voted on every two years in a staggered…

child. Since that time, numerous laws and policies have been set up in an effort to care for children who have experienced abuse or neglect and provide temporary services to families in crisis (Barbell & Freundlich, 2001). History of Foster Care United States Originally “worthy widows” were paid by collections from the church to provide housing for children…

Child Abuse – The Failure of Social Services. The rate of abuse of children especially in the United Kingdom has grown to point that is now a national threat, one would have thought that the case of Victoria Climbie in 2000, and the case of baby Peter in 2007, would have attracted social services to the major cause of child abuse and try to stop it, but that is not the case today, and the situation is getting worse. The main purpose for this project is to understand and show why social…

monumental mistakes and many consequences. There are many terrible decisions made in King Lear, but the ones made by King Lear himself, in regards of his kingdom and daughters take the prize for having the most complications associated with them. From the first line of King Lear, we see that the decision of Lear deciding to divide his kingdom among his daughters was thought, to be honest, but in reality it was the decision that wrecked his entire life. The first mistake…

a safe and stable environment. Homelessness could be detrimental for a child’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. In the United States of America more than 1 million children are homeless and more than 95 million of people are homeless worldwide of which 11% are children according to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; Homeless World Cup Organization 2005. Homelessness among children had increase by more than 25% in the past 6 years in the USA due to the…

According to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority in the United Kingdom, “Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) enables people with an inheritable condition in their family to avoid passing it on to their children. It involves checking the genes and/or chromosomes of embryos” created through IVF (HEFA, 2014). During this process, one or two cells can be removed without any harm to the embryo. The embryos that show genetic disease are discarded with consent and the embryos that…

In the United States it is a requirement that all children attend school regardless of race, gender, or religion. The right to an education is something that too many children take for granted in the US. In Pakistan not all children have the right to attend school, and it took one brave young woman to stand up for the right for millions of children across the world who are not allowed to go to school. Malala Yousafzai could have gone along with what she was told to do, but she believed that she…

Children – Charity When looking at organizations in relation to social economy “Free the Children” can be recognizes as an international charity. Free the children’s main projects involve adopting a village (in Africa, Asia, and Latin America) where their main focus is on children and education. This organization was founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger after reading though Toronto Star newspaper and coming across an article about the murder of 12 year…

“The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with only few barriers.”(Anonymous) The idea of an ‘American Dream’ has changed throughout history and never really has had a solid definition as to what exactly the Dream was. Overall, this…