Human rights abuses

imaginable that excuses torture. She sees torture as a way of manipulating people through their pain and points out that several universal conventions laid out the “absolute moral imperative” against torture including The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “which stipulates, in unqualified terms, that ‘no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’ ”(Evans). The Geneva Conventions of 1949 also had provisions which addressed torture and…

colonization, criminalize anal sex and acts of gross indecency between men (Offences Against the Person Act, 1864). Although the law criminalizes acts between men, and arrest under the law is rare, it is used to justify human rights violations against all sexual minorities (Human Rights First, 2015). Homophobic discourse is widespread in Jamaican media, music, religious groups, and politics. Sexual minorities are stigmatized and denied access to social, economic, and legal services in public and…

subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This is the 5th human right. Torture is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. Torture is common all around China. Chinese law prohibits some tortures, but they have failed to assign the right people to end torture and stop it from happening. People in China are afraid to be tortured…

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…

China: Human Rights and Status of Oppressed Groups Premise: The evidence will support that the world-wide movement to protect the rights of oppressed groups has not reached nor affected China; indeed, there is strong resistance to correcting human rights abuses. In the summer of 1989, Chinese students protested in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, facing off against government troops and tanks. From this event came an iconic image, of a man holding his shopping bags, facing off against a line of…

4, 2013 (“Human”). He ran as a moderate and raked in a great number of votes in the June 14 elections (“Human”). In his presidential campaign, Rouhani allured the Iranian voters by promises of change and expansion of personal freedoms (“Human”). Rouhani was elected despite significant restraints and lack of rights that interfered with fair and just elections. While the new Iranian regime is busy trying to prove to the world that they are “moderate,” executions and human rights abuses have been…

Government on Human Rights The language that is used by government officials is critical when it comes to analyzing the governments policies. In “Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms”, the authors Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter demonstrates how spokespeople of governments can easily manipulate the language of human rights in order to justify violations of human rights such as attacks on Afghanistan after the 9/11. In Beth A. Simmons’s article “The Future of the Human Rights…

Ruggie’s Principles The United Nations Human Rights Council in 2005 appointed Harvard Professor John Ruggie to study business and human rights and end the debate on the human rights responsibilities of companies. Ruggie’s six-year study builds on his “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, published in 2008, that outlined a state’s duty to protect human rights, and the corporation’s responsibility to respect human rights. This study leads to unanimous endorsement by the United Nations.…

opportunities to research, analyze, learn, and write about a number of varying human rights abuses internationally such as the use of torture in Turkey, genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, and women rights abuses in Morocco. Collaborations with various social justice groups on campus connected me with local struggles for human rights- including prisoners rights, indigenous rights, campus workers rights, refugee rights, and groups fighting against gentrification in our…

The Brazilian constitution ensures its citizens right to life and liberty, but in reality, this isn 't true. Brazil, a Federal Republic country violates people’s human rights to life, personal security, and liberty by allowing their police to arrest detainees illegally along with treating them harshly, and by allowing the police to get away with torture and murder. To combat Brazil’s violations of the human rights to life, personal security, and liberty a number of things can be done: use global…