Equality and Human Rights Commission

The ANPO: Art X war documentary is amazing collection of oil painting, photographs, movie clips, and contemporary art. I think it is an important tool to understand the conflict between Japanese labor unions, students, and general people vs. Japanese government and the U.S. base camps. This movie explores the ANPO Treaty and chaos created by it through the lenses of Japanese great artists, who had live experience from the conflict. I did not know much about the treaty and post WWII conflict in…

Are they called bathers, or swimmers? Is it a potato cake or a scallop? Depending on where one travels across Australia, one is bound to encounter many terms. However, what happens when every state and territory of Australia uses their own words and slang? This is a source of confusion for many, and can even trigger many debates amongst states. There are many different people living in Australia, all with their own identities and individual use of Australian English. It is important to highlight…

We Are People Human trafficking is today’s version of slavery. Victims are forced into labor, prostitution, and other exploitations. In 2007 three brothers conspired together to traffick women from Mexico to New York, Queens. The brothers threatened, assaulted, and psychological coerced the young women and minors into prostitution. These men were committed to sex trafficking that one of the brother, Victor Leonel Estrada- Tepal, placed his wife into their sex trafficking. Victor Leonel Estrada-…

Ticking Time Bomb The term torture makes teeth cringe with scenes of a person tied down to a chair with ruptured lips, busted up face, in a closed place full of people taking turns in “punching the truth” out of them. Torturers have an illusion of discovering the “truth” through inventive shapes of inflicting tortuous pain on a terrorist. Throughout times of crisis, this technique can be attractive to practice. The ticking time bomb scenario is always a form in a try to justify torture. These…

“There are 125,000 abortions per day in the United States, which is equivalent to 45,625,000 per year” (worldometers 1). Abortion impacts mothers greatly; it can take away the maternal instincts of a mother who has children in the future. A mother becomes desensitized to the meaning of life and the fragility of the well being of others after the abortion. Abortion takes a toll on many different things in life; not only does it take a toll on the mother, it takes a large toll on the mother’s…

This question is as for the talk of particles for and against sweatshops. Sweatshops are described by International Labor Rights Forum, as an affiliation that ignores no less than two work laws (2013). These laws could be those concerning pay, working hours, working conditions, prosperity and disciplinary procedures completed. Masters in sweatshop are ensured to be beaten, tormented, and even sexually troubled in occasions (Australian Broadcast Network 2013). Regardless, many fight concerning…

My Downworlder brethren, brothers and sisters, faeries, warlocks, vampires and werewolves, the time has arrived to renew the Accords, the negotiations of peace we hold with the Nephilim, once more. For years we have coexisted in concord, the feuds of the past have been laid to rest, the centuries of violence have ceased, and the future of our kind is secured. Despite the prosperity this age of order has brought to us, there are those among us who urge for the refutation of our treaty, those…

women have a right over their own body. However, others in society believe that it is an unholy and unjust act to partake in. There is rarely anyone that is in the middle or on the fence about this argument. Many people have very concrete and distinct opinions based on abortion. Abortion is an argument that is widely discussed within society and brought up a lot in different political or religious discussions. Overall, due to the fact that fetuses and embryos can be considered as human, abortion…

ability to speak out against injustice. While peaceful resistance If civil disobedience was a negative thing heroes such as rosa parks or Martin Luther KIng would have never accomplished there goals. The act of peaceful resistance not only enforces the right to protest but it also helps to kickstart change without the need for violence. One should note that it takes much more courage and strength of character to peacefully protest than resort to more crude methods. In Henry David Thoreau's " On…

The Australian flag debate is an interrupted enquiry over whether the Australian flag should be changed, particularly to eliminate the Union Jack from the canton, but to perhaps introduce a completely new design without the Southern Cross. John Blaxland who approves a proposal for a new mature Australian flag, agrees that the flag should be changed. Although there is a lot of controversy around this argument. For example Allan Pidgeon argues that Australia should change its flag. However some…