Equality and Human Rights Commission

if someone famous like Emma Watson could affect the world with help from a world wide group like the UN. I think that she will be able to change the world and make it a better place. My procedure to prove this hypothesis was to research women's rights and the united nations using encyclopedias and books from the library. I also used the internet to research Emma Watson and UN organizations. The UN is an organization of nations that work for world peace and to better humanity. It began in…

argue that human rights have existed since the earliest times within human history? The belief that all human beings are entitled to certain humans rights is fairly new across the world even though it is argued that they have existed in many different traditions before this (www1.umn.edu). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been described as a succession of international breakthroughs and revolutionary declarations (www.krisis.eu). It proclaims that all human beings have the right to…

the same? All humans get judged and bullied about the things that they do with their life. Even people that are a different race than others get judged, even when others want to marry someone as the same sex as them. If people want to marry someone they love, it should not matter what gender they are. “Around the world, people who are fighting for basic rights such as political participation and free speech are intimidated, tortured, and even killed. In the year 2000, Human Rights Watch reported…

As said by Hillary Clinton, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.” Likewise, women’s rights in Saudi Arabia should be fought for just like human rights. However, in Saudi Arabia, strict laws and regulations cause women to be inferior to men. For instance, women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to obtain a passport or travel out of the country without male consent. This highly sexist way of life is justified by the government by proclaiming how these laws are…

review of each country’s human rights position1. In January of 2011, Australia was subject to the UPR review and numerous recommendations were made to the country in areas including indigenous issues and treatment of asylum seekers. The current UPR system does very little to effect state behaviour. Using Australia as case study, this essay identifies that the UPR system provides a lot…

Women have often suffered oppression from society and even by law women’s rights have always been controversial in terms of voting, occupation, and personal choices. This situation can be evidently seen in Ireland in which women do not have the option of abort in almost any circumstance because the church deems it as immoral. The government has made it illegal to have in abortion in the country of Ireland which directly affects women’s choices. in the In the article Ireland’s Long Journey on…

resources. The inclusion of access to a just legal system and the ability to find employment, contrasting to the exclusion of health care and education show Australia needs to do more to ensure they are treated humanely and with respect to their basic human…

Petty, 2016). Equality means that everyone in the world should be treated the same and should all be able to share opportunities regardless of whom they are. Diversity means celebrating that everyone in the world is different, and embrace the different qualities everyone offers and treating those qualities and beliefs respectfully (Louise Petty, 2016). The Equality Act 2010 provides protection against discrimination and the Human Rights Act 1998, outlines the rights for people and equality and…

not be abused and ' 'the Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful for police officers to discriminate against harass or victimise any person on the grounds of the 'protected characteristics ' of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity when using their powers ' ' . Evidently, this particular abuse of discretion is against Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights .Thus, one can…

include women participants and to consider women’s concerns in population policy debates and sought recognition that women’s real world situations must be considered in family planning initiatives. The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), as it developed proposals, acknowledged the right of women of all races to decide the number and spacing of their children which presupposes access to family planning resources and is the key which could unlock the population puzzle. (Mathiason…