Human Rights Watch

Ideology in Anthem According to the Human Rights Watch, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is an unequalled source of human rights violations in the modern world. Lacking almost all basic freedoms, North Korea finds itself as the archetypal oppressive dictatorship. In Rand's novella Anthem, communist and socialist ideas present in North Korea are portrayed as fundamentally backwards and regressive. The ideologies that the Kim family has latched onto in order to justify…

character…”(allusion). Who are these children that Martin Luther King Jr is referring to? Are they directly referring to the white men and specifically people of the white and colored race? Or are they referring to men, women, children, and people of all colors? Humans. These revolutionary words have caused social and political controversies among our nation from the get-go. From the freedom of slaves in the 1860s, to the…

There are many points of view on the right to live and the right to die. Right to live is widely accepted it is normal to want to live. Those who oppose the dying bill act stand against it due to their religion or spirituality. But what do we do when terminally ill patients decide they need to end their life? Do they have the right to die? When dying is too painful, when there is no hope there is an option of assisted death. The dying bill act can achieve this and should therefore be…

Like Father, Like Son? Imagine silence, then life. A little baby boy has just been born in North Korea. He has been given a new life to do whatever he pleases; except he can’t. That little boy has been born in a concentration camp and will stay there for the rest of his life. This is what is happening in North Korea at this moment; so cruel, yet still tolerated. The violence and dehumanization in North Korea still has not ceased, and the genocide will continue to affect the world until their…

Depending on the ideological perspective one views the term racial profiling, it can certainly be disputed and controversial. Racial profiling can be perceived as a form of police practice in which police unfairly target individuals of minority groups based on the premise that members of their ethnic groups are more incline to engage in criminal activity. On the contrary, racial profiling by police can represent a legitimate practice grounded in criminal behavior. In this perspective, race in…

Ethics and morality have influenced humans for countless centuries, shaped and molded by age, culture and gender. These factors have come to create individual and unique ethical lenses that each person sees the world through, therefore, not all ethical frameworks agree on what is right and wrong in ethical dilemmas like the death penalty. Religion is often used by people as an ethical framework, but in an increasingly secular world, religious ethics often come into conflict with secular ethical…

Human rights abuse continue to increase, not an effect of the embargo but that the government continues its ways of horrible treating. The Human Rights Watch World Report 2017 of Cuba explains, “The Cuban government continues to repress dissent and punish public criticism. It now relies less than in past years on long-term prison sentences to punish its critics, but short-term arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders, independent journalists, and others…

Privacy is a state that provides a barrier from the world outside and puts an individual in control of the information they want to present to the masses. However, one question that has lingered since the conventional times and that is “what we want to keep private and what we want to make public” (Singer, pg 59.); where should be the line drawn. This debate is discussed by Peter Singer in Visible Man Ethics in a world without secrets. One of the points he makes is that privatization is a…

He Named Me Malala" is a poignant documentary about the young woman's rights activist Malala Yousafzai from Swat Valley. Pakistan. The documentary tells the story of Malala's life, both before she was attacked by the terrorist group Taliban by being shot in the head, and after, for a cause as simple as lighting for girls right to education. It addresses themes such as terror, feminism and human rights in a manner that is simple enough for most people to understand. The movie alternates between…

will examine how airpower has been utilized in two general categories: containment and humanitarian rights. The first category will discuss how the US has utilized airpower to contain bad actors in support of our economic, social, and political interests. The second category demonstrates airpower utilization for regime influence and/or removal, specifically as it pertains to violations of human rights. Lastly, we will discuss how airpower is currently being employed in the fight against…