Equality and Human Rights Commission

Today we put forth a new proposal to implement legal safeguards to protect both children and adults from the harms of immigration detention. For far too long we have become insensitive towards the cruel treatment of refugees. We have lost perspective on who these people really are and what they have to offer. These people, no matter the circumstance, have faces, names, families, hopes, dreams and aspirations just like you and me. It’s time we finally acknowledge them for who they are as fellow…

countries. According to Debora Spar’s article, Hitting the Wall, activist Jeff Ballinger hypothesizes that Nike’s objectives to minimize costs as a competitive advantage has actually led to these unfair treatments as well as multiple counts of other human rights violations. While I do agree that extreme cost-cutting measures can lead to hostility and a sense of urgency among the affected individuals in a company, I do not wholly agree with Ballinger that this alone can lead to inhumane…

only had a choice to sleep outside on such a freezing night, don’t seem to be treated as human even though dogs or cats can sleep inside warm houses. People have rights, which are for people to live as humans. Rights are invisible and valuable, but people tend to take them for granted because they already have them. There is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that promises the equal and inalienable rights of every one of people under the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the…

Censorship Almost since human beings began sharing ideas, the issue of censorship (officially suppressing ideas or writing) has been debated. Proponents of censorship argue, for example, that offensive material might morally corrupt children or that governments have the right to protect their national secrets. Opponents argue that censorship infringes on individual freedom and hinders progress. Censorship has long been an issue regarding books and papers; now, it has become a critical issue…

On the off chance that a pregnancy has happened, once you've settled on one of two options – staying pregnant, or ending your pregnancy, there are three more fundamental decisions to make. Parenthood, fetus removal or appropriation are all just as suitable, lawful (in many areas) and substantial decisions, any of which might be the best decision for somebody at a given time, and nobody of those decisions is any less complex or simpler to make than another. At the point when a woman gets to be…

people yearn for: freedom and beauty. Freedom is a precious and unique gift. In this world, freedom is the ideology everyone wants, but we, Americans, don’t think too much about it. In many countries, people are not free; they don’t have the same human rights as we have. In America, we have the Constitution to ensure the freedom of all Americans. My father immigrated to the United States of America for freedom and all the promises of the Constitution. My father once told me, “You cannot starve…

For as long as the human race has existed, the dispute over humanity being innately evil or innately good has been a hot topic of debate. This has been a recurring topic for the reason, that is, plain ignorance; people refuse to believe that humans are born with a sense of evil, yet there are copious amounts of evidence that prove this to be true. Hypothetically speaking, if humans are born with innate goodness, then why does our world still suffer from severe cases of poverty,…

“Child of Dandelions” by author Shenaaz Nanji is a novel that focuses on the protagonist Sabine and her Indian family, as they face injustices and struggle to escape from the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Sabine, her family, and the entire Indian community face many difficulties throughout the way, such as extreme racism. Child of Dandelions should be used as a full novel study for the I.B. program because it conveys international mindedness. It does so by illustrating military dictatorship through…

required to read in school. I decided on the poem “To Change the World Enough” by Alice Walker, mainly because I was able to understand most of what the poem was saying. The poem seems to be response to a protest of some kind maybe protesting for human rights or a better opportunity for work. This poem seems to fit current events going on around the nation dealing with officer involved shootings. The other reason I selected this poem is because Alice Walker also wrote the screenplay for the…

half years, and he insists that you have been together for long enough to go all the way. He says that nothing will go wrong because you both have a form of protection, so you agree. Then as the weeks go by things seem normal, and you believe he was right until a month has gone by with no period. You brush it off thinking that it’s just a coincidence and you have nothing to worry about. You are scheduled for a normal doctor’s appointment and everything is going well. A week later, you find…