organisations. They must work in conjunction with courts and tribunals that do have adequate power to enforce their findings although these are often very costly options. Each response has at least some effect on the promotion and enforcement of human rights despite their flaws. The United Nations is perhaps the most prominent organisation to work with human rights. It is the primary source of some of the most vital and fundamental human…
to understand the way justice works throughout the international community, a person must understand the history behind the system and all the reasons it came to be. The Bosnia Case was the public international case of Bosnia and Herzegovina v Serbia and Montenegro. Dr. Francis Boyle, an adviser to Alija Izetbegović, the first Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, filed the case. A document issued by the International Court of Justice stated that, “25,000…
which six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party. The holocaust was filled with concentration camps lead by Natzi leaders in which the prisoners were in an inhuman environment and were cruelly punished. Once after World War 2 came to an end on September 2, 1945, prosecutions were made on December 1942 towards the leaders of the political, judicial, and economic leadership of Natzi Germany. The prosecutions were made from the Allied leaders of the Soviet Union, Great…
possibilities of strikes and put trade union activities under the strict government control. Understanding that the Act threatened…
Is there truly justice for Genocide? Throughout the course of history, many brutal atrocities have been committed, on a genocidal scale. Some of these have resulted in court cases and punishments for the perpetrators, though many have not. Reparations, even enormous ones, do not repay the families of the murdered. This can be exemplified with the genocide of the Poles in the Katyn Woods, and the Armenian Genocide. One happened in the midst of World War II, and has been largely ignored by the…
genocide had ended due to the efforts taken by the allied forces. These forces consisted of four nations: Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and the United States. After the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of World War II, the allied forces needed to react to this horrific tragedy. As a reaction to the Holocaust, the allied forces sought a way to receive justice for the innocent millions who had lost their lives in a tragic way. In order to achieve this, the allied forces created the…
patentable. Even some invention fulfill all the criteria stated, it is still exceptions. A ‘human embryo’ within the meaning from Union law is any human ovum after fertilization or any human ovum not fertilized but through the effect of the technique used to obtain it, is capable of commencing the process of development of a human being. The European Court of Justice recently declared the procedures that involve human embryonic stem cells cannot be patented because it would be contrary to ethics…
Growing up in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan, Jalila Khamis Koko grew up to face an incredible challenge in her life. Born in South Kordofan around 1968, Koko experienced and witnessed many violence from the civil war in her country. South Kordofan, centered in the Nuba Mountains with its capital, Kadugli, is the only state in northern Sudan to produce oil in its fertile area of Abyei, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan since the two countries could not decide which one should own the…
aboriginals and they didn’t know how to treat them. For a period of time the aboriginals were treated like animals. They lost all their cultural beliefs and ways of living nearly instantly. The aboriginals were forced to learn to live the “civil” way the Europeans did. The aboriginal’s rights were already taken away from them as early as 1788.…
started enforcement proceeding in front of local court to reclaim the total loan. Ms Jones objected…