civilians’ legal rights. Society in Canada could be related to most countries with not enough recognition of certain groups in recent history, however, with the Charter of Canadian Rights and Freedoms enacted in 1982, people’s rights are beginning to be acknowledged and protected from unfair laws that transpire. In more recent years, there have been changes made to the law in Canada and multiple communities are more accepting of bodies of people who have been denied proper protection of rights…
political protection for reproductive rights. Reproductive rights state than an individual has the right to have reproductive health. This includes the right to plan a family, terminate a pregnancy, learn about sex education, use contraceptive medicine, and have the option to gain access to reproductive health services. Politicians are trying to take this right away from women by passing bills in congress that would defund Planned Parenthood and shut it down. As humans, we are born with the…
Discrimination is defined as “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people” (Merriam-Webster). There are possible explanations for discrimination: irrationality and exploitation. To provide a common ground for this chaos, laws are established and enforced. However, the law isn't a pure realm free of the prejudices that plague everyday life. This subject to the same problems as society at large. “Black's Law Dictionary mentions,…
China has faced many human rights violations, such as freedom, speech and many more. For example, China has trouble protecting the rights of their own people. They have human trafficking still, and they’re government isn’t protecting their people. “Victim got to hug his father and little sister for the first time in years.” “After being taken away from his family through child trafficking.” It took they’re government to find them after 24 years to find one person who was missing. “Sold children…
behind the term “land of opportunity”, which is embedded into our country’s core. Americans are people who make their own decisions, express themselves freely, and connect with their neighbors through the sense of freedom and the pursuit of the American Dream, as this country grants equal rights and opportunities to every one of its citizens. Having the ability to make our own decisions helps to describe what it means to be an American, as this is the difference between being free and being…
respond in ways which are sustainable, economical and respectful of human rights. One such approach has been the creation of detention centres to process asylum seekers. In this essay, an argument is made that while short-term detention of asylum seekers is justifiable, indefinite mandatory detention is a violation of human rights and therefore unacceptable. This notion is looked at in the context of Australia, and the human rights violations that indefinite detention has on asylum seekers who…
According to ushistory.org, America’s 1776 Declaration of Independence stated that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” (2014). For many seeking to gain freedom, overcome oppression, and achieve the American dream, this country has been a place of refuge. It is currently the year 2015, however, and it seems that many Americans have begun to question the American dream. Most question…
Rhetorical Analysis: Shirin Ebadi Nobel Lecture Shirin Ebadi is the first Nobel Peace Laureate from the Islamic world. Ebadi, an attorney, also happened to have been Iran’s first female judge. She took up the struggle for fundamental human rights, especially for women and children, following her dismissal from the role of a judge as a result of Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. On the occasion of the award on December 10, 2003 at the Oslo City Hall, in Oslo, Norway, Ebadi, after expressing…
Australia should have a bill of rights is widely debated and there are many different views about this question. According to the legal dictionary, the bill of rights is a list of fundamental rights and freedoms that are guaranteed by the Australian Constitution. As compared to other western countries such as the Great Britain, Australia is the only western country who does not have the bill of rights. Despite the fact that many countries have adopted the bill of rights, there are both positives…
Slavery, racisim, discrimination are those global issue that we have been talking about since our childhood. These are the issues that has always been existing in our society. Though people say slavery is completely abolish from our nation but I disagree because only the form of slavery has been changed but it still exists in our society as a modern day slavery. Slavery can be explain as a state of being slave or a practice of owing slave. In other words, the practice of owing or being a slave…