European Court of Human Rights

of gender equality. The first action was the passing of a law that prohibited men from selling their wives and prohibited parents from forcing their daughters to get marry involuntarily. These prohibitions allowed women to have the right over their own body and the right to choose their own spouse. Later in the reign of the King Rama VI, compulsory education was provided to all citizens regardless of gender. The King Rama VI also advocated monogamy but at that time it was not widely practiced by…

Do people consider a fetus to be a human or just an egg that has not yet fully evolved into one? When speaking of a fetus legally it is considered to be another member to society. The second a fetus is fertilized it has the right to life. Though abortion has not yet been banned, laws still have some sort of involvement when women decide to undergo abortion. Abortion is one of the most complex situation when falling into the prolife/prochoice debate. Prolife can be defined as the baby must be…

at fertilization and therefore abortion is the wrongful way of killing a innocent human being. A major change needs to be conducted on the current amendment that is keeping this debate alive. Before 1973, abortion was illegal in…

Jeffrey L. Metzner, MD .(Metzner) Humans are naturally social creatures. There are distinct patterns that show we are drawn to others. Even when two people walk together, and don’t know each other, they tend to walk at the same pace, in the same ways. When a person is in solitary confinement they are locked up most of the day and only allowed out for an hour to exercise. Some exercise pens are outside but others are just a little room inside. This means many prisoners don’t see day light the…

be created in mother’s womb, in the natural way not in a test tube. Anyone who follows God and believes in the bible should not say cloning is right especially just for organ donation, because nobody should take away the life of another person because only God can take away lives. Men did not create our life but God did so a man should not have any right to take anybody’s life because only the creator can take what he gave ys therefore killing clones for donation purpose is murdering and it…

nation-state and possess legal rights and political duties. As can be seen from its many ideals – namely republican, liberal, bound, cosmopolitan, pluralist or solidarist – citizenship has multiple sources of meaning, be they cultural, religious, ethnic or gender related. These conceptions each have their respective merits and downfalls, which shall be assessed and measured in this essay by the extent to which they permit the best use and protection of the citizen’s rights and duties. Although…

resources. According to (The Holy Qur’an, S30:41) the Holy Qur’an warned against the negativity of spoiling the environment: “Mischief has appeared on land and sea because of (themed) that the hand of men have earned”. Shari’a sets up the standards of human conduct and how businesses should deal with their external environment. IFIs are expect to conduct their institutions activities in accordance with the requirement of Shari’a. Since the foundation of IFIs is based on the Islamic values, IFIs…

and fear, Sadaam Hussein along with the Ba’athist government were ousted. Then came the difficult job of building a democracy that was workable in Iraq and overcoming the obstacles including the ongoing civil conflict, economic problems, and the human rights issues. The escalation of the Iraqi Civil War since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011 has fueled civil unrest. This includes the ongoing violence against the central government and the sectarian violence among religious groups. The economy in…

II. Lacan On the individual level, the obsession for an identity, for cohesion, is a result of the subject’s development through the mirror stage of life. This stage begins in the early years of one’s life when the child encounters their reflection in the mirror. Upon this first glimpse of oneself from the outside, the child is given an image of her existence which is far more unified and cohesive than their own subjective experience. Instead of the confusing collection of limbs and body parts…

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…