European Convention on Human Rights

Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi’s article, Are Women Human? It’s Not an Academic Question, they explore how heterosexism and the gender binary that underlies it are inextricable from western state making, and argue that, as a result of the pervasiveness of heterosexism, human rights are “problematic terrain for women and all who are stigmatized by association with the feminine” (Peterson & Parisi 154). Over the course of their critique of human rights, Peterson and Parisi make the claim that…

the freedoms and rights that we as humans deserve. All of the attitudes, values and beliefs underpinned within the text of this book come from events that have occurred in the past, whether it is about the abuse of political power or reproductive rights, humans have and will continue to make atrocious mistakes…

When the System Fails: Reparations for Grievous Abuses of Human Rights African Americans that are alive today and were alive when our government and our citizens were perpetrating human rights crimes against their race should be paid reparations; however, the African American ancestors of those brutalized and dehumanized within the institution of slavery should not be paid reparations. To be an African American witness to crimes against your race perpetrated with impunity by a system of…

removing the fetus from the womb during pregnancy; before the fetus can survive on its own (Women’s Right). Abortion became legalized in the United States during the Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade in 1973. Abortion was once illegal and it was considered as a crime in the U.S. in which the state government have the authority to put the woman who committed abortion in jail (Women’s Right). The Roe v. Wade is the decision that had been made in the U.S. history in which many people in the…

promoting one’s personal dignity. Human dignity is something that cannot be taken away from or forfeited by an individual in any manner (30). Human dignity states that every person is worthy and must be free from slavery and other acts that are appropriate to human nature (Webster Dictionary). Humans have dignity not because of what they have accomplished in their past, but because God created the person in his image with dignity (29). Through this view, humans are made to experience love and…

“exotic” and “oppressive” cultures, “but all human relations and institutions or structures in which gender stereotypes and fixed parental gender role are used in a way that is detrimental t let full realisation of women’s human rights.” Article 5 lays the foundation for an approach to go beyond the distinction between formal and substantive equality and concentrate on transformative equality (Hunter, 2008). This is a big progress in directing human rights actors and practitioners not just…

The Death Penalty has always a controversial topic especially in the United States. People have been for it and people of course have been against it. But the polls show that most of the people in America support the Death penalty. The highest number of people in support of capital punishment is 80% and the lowest has been in the fifties for a very brief time(Michael Foley, "Toward Understanding the Death Penalty Debate"). Most people that are both pro and against the Death Penalty would agree a…

This new world established new human race, independent in every aspect of life. America possibly is the only society with the freedom given to every individual. Our forefathers have given this freedom on the central idea of “free speech.” The right is free speech is evolutionary innate and prove of our existence. In our society, this right is so important that the writers of the ‘Bill of Rights’ gave it very first place and for personal safety empowered us with ‘Right to bear arms;’ meaning say…

center of development, we can begin to foster the rights of girls and provide them with rights to health, economic gain, and human rights. At the moment, according to the Girls Count report, one out of eight person’s are girls who do are not warranted the same basic rights as boys and who undertake most of the domestic labor in order for her family to survive. If nearly all countries are legally bound to respect, protect, and fulfill girls’ rights, then why is it that gender inequality is still…

unequivocal. Abortion is Murder. 2. Life starts at the moments of conception and abortion takes innocent lives. Conception till death. Nothing is added except nutrition and oxygen. A new human life is sin existence, ending this life is not ending “potential” that reveals the humanity…