Convention on the Rights of the Child

In it, article 34 states that a person has a right to work and be remunerated to a degree that he/she will be able to live humanely. However, in many low-wage countries, these laws are not valid because basic human rights are not legally binding. Hence, based on the normative theory of individualism, one could argue that the act of Nike in sending their production overseas for a cheaper…

Child abuse is a major problem in todays society, but now there are more and more instances in which parents, who believe in disciplining their children, are being accused of abuse. People are now struggling with how to categorize these incidents as either parental discipline or child abuse. Although many believe that parental discipline is no different than child abuse, there is a fine line that is drawn between the two. While child abuse is committed out of hatred and violence, parents…

Sri Lanka being a state party to the international Labour Organization and United Nations and has ratified a number of International Conventions that help to eliminate sexual harassments from Sri Lankan workplaces some of the conventions are as…

Anti-Slavery Convention (“Seneca Falls Convention Begins,” n.d.). During the convention, the two women were barred from the convention floor because of their sex. However, the issue did not stop the women from expressing their opinions and exercising their invisible rights. Mott and Stanton later on held a women’s conference in Seneca Falls, New York which is now known as the notorious Seneca Falls Convention.…

On July 19, 1848, the convention in Seneca Falls, New York attracted both men and women who were interested in the rights of women. The two-day meeting started something big. Women all over the country began speaking up about their rights. Even though the public did not want to listen, these brave people helped shape America into what it is today. This meeting eventually led to the Nineteenth Amendment around 70 years later. The amendment gave women the right to vote and women began feeling…

also friends with William Lloyd Garrison. In which, she took part in the Western New York Anti-Slavery movement with them and they met regularly every Sunday at their farm home. It was primarily because of her beliefs and what she was taught as a child by her family who were Quakers demanding equality for all. In similarity, she noticed while being a teacher…

The Human Rights Act (HRA) is argued to be a fundamental instrument in the United Kingdom’s (UK) constitution. It allows the rights and freedoms of the individual to be protected from the state within Domestic Courts. The Act has been under h scrutiny for decades surrounding the conflicts that it poses on the UK’s unwritten constitution and the fundamental doctrines of Parliamentary sovereignty, Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law. Due to this, there have been proposals made by many…

impacts on development and learning, proceeding to superior intricacy, self-regulation, and figurative capacities. Learning advances when children are challenged and experience influences their enthusiasm for and methods to learn ("12 Principles of Child Development and Learning that Inform Practice", n.d.) A child’s world is an ecosystem of connections and relationships, these connections and relationships influence practically every component of their growth. The quality and…

opinion to the topic of women’s rights. Later called the Declaration of Sentiments, signers of this resolution agreed that women should have equal legal rights to men. From common class girls to Ladies of good stature all who attended were in agreement that something had to change. Females worked just as hard as men to establish the budding country, yet saw nothing of the fruits of their…

Jordan Flaherty once said “Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.” It is because I agree with John Flaherty in the position regarding housing, that I feel compelled to affirm today’s resolution. Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing. For clarification of today’s round, I offer the following definitions: Word: Guarantee…