Equality and Human Rights Commission

The twentieth century is when the past notions of human rights developed fully into a researched document argued and defined by world thinkers as the Universal Declaration of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human rights was not developed out of nothing, it was heralded by idealistic people who saw the world of the early twentieth century, and wanted to define the rights that should be universal to the world. The rights that they wrote had already existed in a multitude of world…

parts to being independent. One is to be independent in your mind and the other is to be independent in a sense of supporting yourself without any help from anyone. How can a person truly be independent if that person does what the world thinks is right? The answer to that question is that no individual will be considered truly independent as long as that person follows everybody. To be fully independent is to rely solely on oneself, trusting yourself, and believing in yourself. The only true…

India having a son is deemed more economically profitable and acceptable because...Continuation of this behavior can lead to even larger number and more severe cases of violence and death of women in India. Actions such as denying women an equal right to education may lead to missed opportunities to greater the country or increase in other social disparities. For example, women who lack education in sex may lead to an increase unprotected and unsafe sex leading to a greater infant mortality…

Many people have their own opinion when it comes to the controversial topic of Abortion. There are those who believe that abortion is wrong and it should be illegal (pro-life) while others argue that women should have the right to decide whether to get an abortion because it 's her own body (pro-choice). Abortion which is the early termination of a pregnancy is done up to the 24th week of the pregnancy which is rarely done as most abortions are done earlier on by either surgery - one way is by…

its population toward specific ideas of right and wrong. United States is no exception. To help explain this influence of religion, Yael Yishai writes of a term called “public ideas”. He defines it as “a set of durable beliefs having broad scope that…

Abortion is another controversial, global issue that involves morality and righteousness of humanity. This dilemma specifically concerns whether humans should have the right to abort and whether euthanizing an unborn fetus is morally right. Additionally, abortion laws and abortion itself plays a very important role in politics. Between conservatives, liberals, moderates, republicans, democrats, and independents, there are varying beliefs, ranging from pro-life, pro-choice, and many degrees in…

or civil rights that involve making decisions regarding their bodily integrity, which forces women to carry fetuses to term. In this paper, I will argue that we ought to reject Don Marquis’ notion of opposing abortion due to the presence of the fetus’s future of value because Marquis fails to properly account for the type of future that the female fetus would eventually have in a particular setting like country X where civil and political rights are extremely limited. Moreover, the right to life…

Slavery Reparations: A Call For Justice The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently,…

This paper will compare and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Dominique Clément’s “The October Crisis of 1970: Human rights abuses under the War Measures Act”, and Ross Lambertson’s “The Black, Brown, White and Red Blues: The Beating of Clarence Clemons”. Both articles are rich with facts and explore fascinating issues in Canadian human rights history. That being said, this paper will argue that Clément’s article is superior. Clément’s article is better organized with clearer diction and…

same-sex couples the right to marry (Baehr v. Lewin, 1993). In this instance, the Hawaii Supreme Court relied on a perspective of equal protection, rather than due process, to justify their decision in this matter. Shortly thereafter, the case is remanded to the trial court, to allow the state time and an opportunity to establish its reasons as to why they can deny same-sex couples marriage licenses, which the state delayed until 1996…