Human Rights Campaign

at the Washington Office on Latin America I would like to begin by stating that it is an honor to be here, addressing the nation on our relations with our hemispheric neighbors in Latin America. First of all, I want to emphasize that it is our campaign and our party’s goal to build partnerships based on mutual respect with all of our hemispheric neighbors across Latin America. We want to build partnerships that promote prosperity, democracy and peace across Latin America and here in the…

The forty-five square miles stretch of earth and sea at the southeastern tip of Cuba—Guantanamo Bay—has served a controversial role in history. Guantanamo Bay primarily served as a strategic logistics base for the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet to support Caribbean counter-drug operations and process undocumented aliens for US refugee repatriation/status to their host country but since 2002, it has also served to detain and interrogate international terrorist suspects (Schwab). (Previous Thesis)…

violated its own policies on project appraisal, risk assessment, financial analysis and protection of indigenous peoples, as their role is not just to provide the funds needed for projects but to also ensure that these projects are carried out without human rights violations. The World Bank acknowledged the fact that “underlying the litany of Africa’s development problems is a crisis of governance.” (World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth: A Long Term Perspective Study…

or as an academic is in one way or another a part of being a health professional. There are many different ways to advocate or to be an activist, and if a health professional is following and respecting his/her ethics as a health provider and as a human being I do not think that the integrity of the professional…

Assignment Unit 3 An unbelievable organization that I researched during this assignment was Amnesty International. Researching this organization and was hard and fascinating at the same time. It was hard to read about the worldwide abuse of human rights that happens around the globe, it was also hard to see the organization fight against law enforcement here in the USA. I come from a family of public servants, my family members are law enforcement, and I also consider all Fire, Law and EMS…

are common words that have developed into one of the largest debates nationwide. While abortion is a seemingly growing subject matter, over time, not much has changed. There are many studies and individual opinions imputed into the ideas of what is right and wrong in the sense of abortion, but that’s not what this paper is about, although the title may have confused you. The idea of abortion allows a scenario where personhood in a fetus becomes an argumentative subject. When personhood should be…

planning. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is already prohibited from providing U.S. funds to provide abortions in any country. However, this policy would freeze U.S. funding from the organizations that advocate for abortion rights or promote it as a family planning option, even if those organizations do not use US funds for those specific purposes. Called the ‘Mexico City Policy,’ the policy was first introduced and enforced during former President Ronald Reagan’s…

“exotic” and “oppressive” cultures, “but all human relations and institutions or structures in which gender stereotypes and fixed parental gender role are used in a way that is detrimental t let full realisation of women’s human rights.” Article 5 lays the foundation for an approach to go beyond the distinction between formal and substantive equality and concentrate on transformative equality (Hunter, 2008). This is a big progress in directing human rights actors and practitioners not just…

established in 1969, is a non-governmental, human rights organization that advocates for the rights of indigenous people groups around the world. Survival International helps indigenous tribes protect their lives and lands, as well as determine their own futures. SI believes civilized society can learn a lot from tribal people groups, so they work to give them a voice to address the world. The ultimate goal of Survival International is to ensure that the rights tribal peoples are both…

there were no formal international mechanisms in place to enforce the rights it provided. Moreover, historically, the U.N. would rarely become involved in nations internal affairs to enforce international human rights law, as that would infringe on the sovereignty of the nation. Coinciding with this practice were countries turning a blind eye to international campaigns on women’s rights by pursuing an argument that states have a right to govern themselves. Therefore, a formal body to access…