Equality and Human Rights Commission

How ARC Advances Social Justice in Crises American Refugee Committee (ARC) is a nonprofit organization, based in Minneapolis, MN that works with refugees, internally displaced persons and people facing disaster and conflict in 11 countries (ARC 2016). The types of conflict ARC addresses includes natural and war related disasters and gender based violence that result in oppression, persecution, poverty in terms of resources, health, education and wealth, and displacement. ARC aims to assist…

States ' bible belt, the author discusses how religious norms have been transformed in public law and how that has taken away from a woman’s rights. She talks about how religious discourse has been used to advance Christian ideology and morality in this country. The main point of this article is gender equality and how abortion takes away from a woman’s right. In my opinion the target audience for this article is the general public. It covers a lot of topics that can pertain to anyone and she…

able to make their own choices is a natural process. Over all she is using the meme to persuade her viewers to see that the pro-choice side of the abortion controversy is allowing women to make the own decisions about their body and that it is the right choice. Abortion has been a controversial issue dating back to the biblical days. It wasn’t until…

Chapter 1 Introducing Globalization and Global Issues This chapter is about globalization and its affect on the world. In the last few years, the world has decreased the amount of wars that it engages in. The narrative of this chapter is to provide the reader with information that explains that with globalization becoming more widespread, the world has been improving the living standard. Within the last 10 years, the world has made a 500 percent increase in total users on the internet. Also it…

liberties are fundamental human rights that the government cannot control and provides people protection from the government. On the other hand, civil rights are obligations required by civil society for civil participation to be achieved and require the government to be a part of in order to function properly. The difference between a civil liberty and a civil right is a civil liberty is a protection from the government and is considered to be natural privilege, however, a civil right involves…

vote and not until 1965 were African American’s given the right to vote. And if you were to ask why it took so long for women and minorities to be given the right to vote, you would receive answers on the lines of sexism and racism. However, the refusal of voting rights was based on the fear that women and minorities were wildcards, current voters had no idea how they were voting. This simulation demonstrated how teams with no voting rights felt having to fight for them and it also demonstrated…

Freedom is the right of being able to express yourself in whichever way you think is best for you, disregarding what the expectations maybe . Men have always had more freedom and been able to act on their free will, unlike women. Women were oppressed and made inferior because of this idea that women are incapable of thinking abstractly and should be at home treated like delicate flowers. Freedom in the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, for the character Janie it was…

change for the betterment of society or the human rights issue at hand. The social norm of the sub-Saharan Africans is to blame a member of the community specifically a woman for the misfortune of someone else. Furthermore, while believers of witchcraft do accept that a person did die from a certain illness which explains the ‘how’ of the misfortune that happened these cultures still seek a metaphysical…

is not a negligible one” (Canada and the United Nations, 1945, p.10). Now, Canada has a new resolve to project Canadian values, such as fairness, equal opportunity and respect for human rights. Canada not only let its diplomat, John Humphrey participated in the drafting of the UN 's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Canada as an independent nation also quickly adopted the declaration in December of 1948. This determined Canada’s peaceful nature in the UN council. In addition, Canada…

ago, marriage was a scared union between a man and a woman. Currently, conflict theorists are influencing millions across America to defy the social norms of marriage with the conflict perspective. According to the book, “Sociology: The Science of Human Organization,” by Jonathan Turner, the conflict perspective views the world riddled with tension and strife, and seeks to discover the tensions that exists behind the façade of order (Turner 31). At this moment in time, people all over the world…