Equality and Human Rights Commission

which are getting worse but your support is being reduced. Q11 The Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) dealt with the assessment, treatment and rights of people with mental health conditions and their compulsory admission to hospital; Data Protection Act 1998 is the safeguarding of confidential information about individuals Human Rights Act 1998 protects a range of human rights and ensures all people are treated equally. Mental Health Act 1983. The purpose of the Act is to state the circumstances in…

majority of human history, governments have provided a multitude of services, protection and guidance to their citizens. These services have come at some sort of cost to citizens, while others are given (seemingly) freely. However, these services and protections have not always been available to all of a state’s citizens. Much has changed over the years in governments. Most of this change has happened in the last 100 or so years for the United States government. Women’s suffrage, the civil…

Human society is founded on a long history of migration. Concurrently, migration is one of the most widely studied topics in the social sciences. It garners interest from its basis in human development, livelihood and existence. Migration is often studied from a sociological and theoretical point of view, or through geographical examinations of an empirical nature. Yet despite political leaders longstanding obsession with invading countries on one hand – and building walls to protect their own…

was married to Franklin Roosevelt, a soon to be president. Women did not have many rights and needed someone who would speak up for them. Eleanor was that person; she was that voice who spoke for them giving them the rights they should have had to begin with. She did not just do things because she was First Lady. When she was out of office, she continued exploring her passion, which was giving women the right to vote. Before entering the white house, Eleanor Roosevelt went through a rough…

because this bring better support for her country and at the same time is looking good because she is also supporting another country to know that they are being good citizens. According to the dispatch, “she called for the actualization of the Joint Commission between the two countries as an effective platform for tangible cooperation in socio-economic development for the benefit of the peoples of both nations”. Also speaking, President Buhari thanked President Sirleaf for her wise counsel on…

ARGUMENT 1: The results of legal court cases allow women to receive appropriate behaviour and equality in the workplace. Fact : In 1999, a legal case between the Public Service Employee Relations Commission and British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union took place. In British Columbia, the provincial government had decided that a (minimum) physical fitness test was to be taken in order to be a forest fighters, and it included an aerobic standard. Rubin, a female forest fighter…

goals of this movement were to achieve suffrage and to address women’s right to property (Shaw & Lee 12). A crucial event of the first wave was the Seneca Falls convention of 1848. The Seneca Falls convention led to a piece of writing known as the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” which was primarily written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton’s writing included a list of grievances that included suffrage and women’s right to property; these grievances were given the utmost importance…

HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL TRIBUNAL ASSIGNMENT LAWS 228 Section 002 Kuangli Zou 300783156 The tribunal I visited is Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, which is located at 655 Bay Street, 14th Floor. It is one of the seven tribunals, which form the Social Justice Tribunals Ontario (SJTO, 2015); and the other six tribunals are Child and Family Services Review Board, Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, Landlord and Tenant Board, etc. The case I heard is about sexual…

China: Human Rights and Status of Oppressed Groups Premise: The evidence will support that the world-wide movement to protect the rights of oppressed groups has not reached nor affected China; indeed, there is strong resistance to correcting human rights abuses. In the summer of 1989, Chinese students protested in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, facing off against government troops and tanks. From this event came an iconic image, of a man holding his shopping bags, facing off against a line of…

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted in September 1990 and ratified by 193 countries), both girls and boys have the right to a good quality education that respects their human dignity and promotes the development of their potentials (UNESCO, 2009). They also have the right to be protected from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. The Kenyan Government ratified the UNCRC in 1991 and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the child in the…