Equality and Human Rights Commission

way in defending its rights to hold slaves. He went on as far as arguing that “the federal government has no right to touch the institution he argues and defend, warning that the fact that abolitionists controlled the press, education and pulpit may bring about a civil war if not contained.” He threatened. slave masters argues that we take care of our slaves, we feed them and as long as they continue to provide food for their slaves, they don’t see any other fundamental rights slaves needs since…

profiling, by judging someone and their abilities or their characteristics without getting to know them. Profiling is a problem, it violates the civil rights of all citizens to have political and social freedom along with equality, but some people in America are ignoring this right, that many have fought for in the Civil War of 1865 ( “Civil Rights” ). The one that believes profiling isn’t an issue of the present time or that people get what they deserve do not see a reason for it to be…

released in 1990. Human Rights Violation The death penalty contravenes the most basic human rights, and one of the most basic human rights that are violated is the right to life. So long as the government maintains the power of determine who should live or die, people loss the right to control their own lives. There are substantial evidence illustrates that the death penalty violates the human rights. For instance, article 3 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that…

Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi’s article, Are Women Human? It’s Not an Academic Question, they explore how heterosexism and the gender binary that underlies it are inextricable from western state making, and argue that, as a result of the pervasiveness of heterosexism, human rights are “problematic terrain for women and all who are stigmatized by association with the feminine” (Peterson & Parisi 154). Over the course of their critique of human rights, Peterson and Parisi make the claim that…

the freedoms and rights that we as humans deserve. All of the attitudes, values and beliefs underpinned within the text of this book come from events that have occurred in the past, whether it is about the abuse of political power or reproductive rights, humans have and will continue to make atrocious mistakes…

When the System Fails: Reparations for Grievous Abuses of Human Rights African Americans that are alive today and were alive when our government and our citizens were perpetrating human rights crimes against their race should be paid reparations; however, the African American ancestors of those brutalized and dehumanized within the institution of slavery should not be paid reparations. To be an African American witness to crimes against your race perpetrated with impunity by a system of…

removing the fetus from the womb during pregnancy; before the fetus can survive on its own (Women’s Right). Abortion became legalized in the United States during the Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade in 1973. Abortion was once illegal and it was considered as a crime in the U.S. in which the state government have the authority to put the woman who committed abortion in jail (Women’s Right). The Roe v. Wade is the decision that had been made in the U.S. history in which many people in the…

promoting one’s personal dignity. Human dignity is something that cannot be taken away from or forfeited by an individual in any manner (30). Human dignity states that every person is worthy and must be free from slavery and other acts that are appropriate to human nature (Webster Dictionary). Humans have dignity not because of what they have accomplished in their past, but because God created the person in his image with dignity (29). Through this view, humans are made to experience love and…

women’s full equality can be realised through the approaches of the CEDAW? Rikki Holtmaat (2012) comments that Article 5 not only address “exotic” and “oppressive” cultures, “but all human relations and institutions or structures in which gender stereotypes and fixed parental gender role are used in a way that is detrimental t let full realisation of women’s human rights.” Article 5 lays the foundation for an approach to go beyond the distinction between formal and substantive equality and…

The Death Penalty has always a controversial topic especially in the United States. People have been for it and people of course have been against it. But the polls show that most of the people in America support the Death penalty. The highest number of people in support of capital punishment is 80% and the lowest has been in the fifties for a very brief time(Michael Foley, "Toward Understanding the Death Penalty Debate"). Most people that are both pro and against the Death Penalty would agree a…