Equality and Human Rights Commission

classified as ‘free.’ Ethiopia’s freedom status is ‘not free.’ It has a freedom rating of a 6.5. Another way to look at how democratic a country is to examine the political and civil rights score a state is given by the Freedom House. Again the lower the score the more democratic a state is. Ethiopia has a political rights score of a 7 and a civil liberties score of 6 (Freedom House 2016). The poor scores Ethiopia received can be attributed to the political instituion of Ethiopia as the Freedom…

person’s right to their body has been an issue often debated throughout human history. Some examples of body right struggles include body snatching, organ harvesting, legal kidnapping, and abortion. In a novel by Neal Shusterman entitled Unwind, the repurposing of human teenagers is decided by their parents or legal guardians. Unwind exemplifies how an individual’s “right” to their body is determined by others. Unwind exaggerates and expands the issues society faces today about body right…

of law and the voting process in which a party by majority gets voted in and how the different views of these parties may influence commonly held values. Commonly held values are values in which most of society hold to know the difference between right and wrong and what is reasonable or unreasonable. This is not to say that everyone will abide by such values, but at the very least if deviated from, may inflict guilt upon those who don’t, thus creating an understanding that there are values that…

Education plays an integral role in economic and social development. Increasing access to education has been a major goal in the policies of developing countries. This is because these developing countries recognize that if more of the population is educated, health and productivity significantly improves. When both men and women receive the opportunity to attend school, progress happens at a faster rate. Unfortunately, millions of women in developing countries are underrepresented in school…

Social cleansings evidently violate obvious human rights, which is Article 6 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the right to life. However, these murders also violate another convention which is the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), which Colombia signed in 1987. While…

important to consider human rights because the essential human rights of these refugees are being violated almost daily. These asylum seekers are smuggled in large numbers everyday by water and land and often end up dying or in worse situations than they sought refuge from. Not only do we as human beings have a duty to help those who are suffering, but politics, and those who make up our political systems globally share that duty. The focus on human dignity and access to rights gives rise to an…

has the basic right to choose for herself, free from government obstruction, whether to have a fetus removal. Even though numerous individuals are stating abortion is murder, it is a woman 's entitlement to pick what she does with her body because it ought not be adjusted or impacted by any other individual or institution and restrictions about abortion are leading to a major issue on human rights and freedom. First of all, in a world, which we are speaking about global human rights, each…

We should stop the violence against civilians by the TPLF regime, we should put on travel restrictions and freeze asset of the human rights perpetrators in Ethiopia. Congress has the power of the purse to stop the large human right mistreatment in Ethiopia. They should dispatch specialist of human rights to investigate the atrocities in the Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions by the Ethiopian security forces, and to let the media look into those regions. Another action…

the early 1960s, it was suggested that the death penalty was a "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore extremely unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. It is kind of appalling that the United Nations enacted a universal Declaration of Human rights in the late 1940’s and yet it was still being practiced and not even being questioned until years later. The death penalty violates the eighth amendment because killing someone is considered cruel and unusual under the law in many ways.…

previously illegal, permissible by law. My first premise will be that choosing to proceed with Euthanasia is a basic human right and my second premise will be that Euthanasia is a way to relieve excruciating pain. My counter premise will be that Euthanasia can be wrongly abused by doctors. Now onto my first point, which is that choosing to proceed with Euthanasia is a basic human right. All…