Human Rights Campaign

moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” His statement calls in question the ethical significance of the intention behind action, suggesting that any action is better than nothing at all. Above all else, the common good should be held in the highest regard and pursued by all means necessary. Hence in theory, doing the wrong thing for the right reason is acceptable when this principle…

Military Torture Our military and government should be allowed to interrogate and torture anyone at anytime if it could save American lives. Any technique of torture such as waterboarding should be legal. If our military was given permission to do whatever it takes to get a terriost to talk we could save many lives and possible stop future attacks and maybe end a war. I believe enabling our military to torture terrorists in any would be beneficial to our country. A pro of military torture…

targeting schools, hospitals and markets. Muslims were classified and discriminated as the inferior group by the Syrian Arab Republic. Sunni cities were deprived of food and medical services, which also fits under the persecution stage. According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the Syrian government continues to use chemical weapons, ballistic missiles, cluster munitions, incendiary weapons, and “barrel bombs” on civilians in residential areas. These weapons were stocked and…

failed to consult with indigenous communities before allowing such projects to begin construction. Despite intense state repression, resistance is strong. Indigenous groups are organizing around their identities to demand better implementation of their rights and to denounce neoliberalist policies. Organizing around their indigenous identity makes the struggle more personal and stronger. According to Deborah Yashar, “If land is the symbolic glue, neoliberalism is the symbolic target. Indigenous…

The Canadians have the right to make whatsoever choice they have in choosing either to buy American magazines or their local magazine without the government infringing or restriction them. The right to vote their purchasing habits should be respected and guaranteed as it is enshrined in the fundamental human rights principle. Imposing of choice on people has grievous consequences and can adversely affect the economy if…

Abortion is morally permissible in which a fetus is not a person which deprives the fetus to its right to life, circular reasoning is an ineffective to oppose abortion, abortion only risks the fetus not society, and deprivation from a fetus's future and suffering of a loved one has no effect on the argument towards anti-abortion. One of the most important aspects of abortion being legal is the issue of safety. Until abortion became legal in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in the Roe v.…

In most cases of human rights abuses, it’s easy to identify the problem, but it’s infinitely more difficult to find viable solutions. What’s difficult about the Roma rights crisis is that it’s difficult to convince people that a problem even exists in the first place. The question for the average French citizen isn 't "How do we solve the problem?"; it more closely resembles “Is there a problem?” or “Should we fix it?” This is not unprecedented: those who benefit from a system of oppression…

resources. The inclusion of access to a just legal system and the ability to find employment, contrasting to the exclusion of health care and education show Australia needs to do more to ensure they are treated humanely and with respect to their basic human…

The fact that it is said it deters crime seems preposterous to me. As of 2015 high security USP are 40-51% over crowded and FCI med/low facilities are at about 35% overcrowding meaning this is a safety and violation of rights article *. As for the recent claim in decline of prison population is the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act. This act amended the disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses which unduly targeted poor African Americans. We also might see a slight decline…

Ever since Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, its political landscape has experienced seemingly endless sociopolitical and economic turmoil due to ethnic conflicts amongst the 570 different tribes with diverse sets of faiths, social backgrounds and cultures, and more so due to religious tensions and power politics between the dominant Arab-Islamic North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected…