European Convention on Human Rights

Goldman Environment Prize winner Berta Caceres. She was an activist protesting against the construction of the Agua Zarea Dam along the Gaulcarque River. She was fighting for the rights of the Lenca indigenous people’s right because the river was holy to her Lenca people (Malkin, 2016). She was working based on a Human Rights organization of Honduras. The construction company gave many threats and killed other members of that activist organization, but she did not stop her social work to fight…

"Australia has done a wonderful job of protecting human rights and it should be proud of its position on the world stage.” Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, Feb 3 2015. Analyse this statement with reference to at least two cases and one piece of legislation supporting your position. Be critical and analytical in your research and response. Within society, human rights play a crucial role for individuals and the community to ensure that everyone, regardless of “distinction of any kind,…

importance of considering human dignity to guide ethical decision making, as well as how this interconnects with the topic of gender selection for non-medical purposes. Since the acts of barbarity committed during world war II, the idea of human dignity has been at the forefront as a component of ethical decision making (Australian Catholic University, 2016, section. 1.2.1). This new focus on human dignity led the United Nations to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948); which…

This essay analyses whether or not Australia is ethical towards the people who are fleeing from their country to a country where they are safe and protected. Throughout this essay secondary sources such as websites will be used to determine whether the Australian government is being equally fair to Refugees and Asylum seekers. ‘A refugee is a person who has fled his or her country and cannot return because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality or…

Saul Cornell’s book titled “A Well Regulated Militia” explains the right of a citizen to bear arm. An important law made for the protection of rights for citizens of the United State is the second Amendment. The second amendment allowed people to maintain the security of their families, and properties. Citizens can also arm themselves in other to be part of a militia which is well regulated. The people of the United State share different views of the main reason this law became part of the…

their children. This create a discrimination and inequality between genders among the American people. Because of this problem, women were trying to protest the government and call for female suffrage. They wants to proclaim their rights and equality. So they formed a convention in Seneca Fall, New York, in July 1848, and draft the Declaration of Sentiments to prove their points.…

differentiates itself from the general term of environmentalism in that it fights for environment equality for people of minority races and low socio-economic status. While the environmental justice movement began in the 1960’s in the US parallel to the civil rights movement, it attracted enormous attention in the 1990’s due to Robert Bullard’s book “Dumping In Dixie” which highlighted evidence of discrimination in locations chosen for toxic waste dumps in the US (Carder, E. n.d). Today with the…

and depend solely on what the woman in the situation herself believes, and under no circumstances should she be told what she is allowed to with her body. The extent of a woman’s right to an abortion should be unlimited. There are countless oppositions to this stance, yet I firmly believe that each individual has the right to decide if they will undergo something as tremendous and consuming as carrying another entity within them for months. Pregnancies that take…

The twentieth century is when the past notions of human rights developed fully into a researched document argued and defined by world thinkers as the Universal Declaration of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human rights was not developed out of nothing, it was heralded by idealistic people who saw the world of the early twentieth century, and wanted to define the rights that should be universal to the world. The rights that they wrote had already existed in a multitude of world…

parts to being independent. One is to be independent in your mind and the other is to be independent in a sense of supporting yourself without any help from anyone. How can a person truly be independent if that person does what the world thinks is right? The answer to that question is that no individual will be considered truly independent as long as that person follows everybody. To be fully independent is to rely solely on oneself, trusting yourself, and believing in yourself. The only true…