Human Rights Watch

This dissertation will answer the question “How do human rights in communist countries compare to human rights in democratic countries?” To answer this main question, a few sub questions will be explored. What are the governments’ ideas about human rights? What human rights are protected by natural laws? What human rights are protected by positivist laws? The research design used for this project is a qualitative case study. This research design best accommodates the purpose of this study,…

Chapter 1: Introduction Human rights belong to everyone no matter their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. In present time, in the U.S. there are immigrants who are not getting equal rights as everybody else. The U.S. is mostly made up of immigrants and their descendants. That means that over half of the United States’ population are immigrants. The US spends $1.18 billion on deporting and stopping immigrants. While…

their basic rights, so they formed groups, known as dissidents, to peacefully find ways to change their situation. While Fidel Castro was alive and in power, the Human Rights Watch noted that “thousands of Cubans were incarcerated in abysmal prisons, thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire generations were denied basic political freedoms” (hrw.org). These groups aimed to change this by marching, just as Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi had done, for their human rights. The…

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…

opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.” In different parts of the world, the freedom of speech and press are limited and far out of reach to many human rights activists. Activists and bloggers face persecution from authorities, who take away their right to freedom of speech. First, an activist in Vietnam was physically abused, harassed, and arrested for posting what she believed was her opinion of the Vietnam law. Next, a Mauritanian…

We should stop the violence against civilians by the TPLF regime, we should put on travel restrictions and freeze asset of the human rights perpetrators in Ethiopia. Congress has the power of the purse to stop the large human right mistreatment in Ethiopia. They should dispatch specialist of human rights to investigate the atrocities in the Amhara, Oromo and Somali regions by the Ethiopian security forces, and to let the media look into those regions. Another action…

quantify and analyse the ‘true perpetrators’ of rape in conflict, especially due to the impunity of the multitude of militia present within the country. This lack of retribution for crimes is evident in the low numbers of convictions for rape. (Human Rights Watch ,…

The Rwandan genocide can be considered one of the most brutal genocides in human history. In spite of contentions surrounding the term “genocide” and what it really means, the majority of the international community recognizes that what occurred in Rwanda was indeed a genocide and that humanity failed to respond when we knew Rwanda was in need. This, in part, is the basis for Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s lecture “R2P and the Syrian Conflict: Lessons Learned from Rwanda.” As the leader of…

establishing human rights and humanitarian processes as a way to rectify the damage and prevent further inhumanities from happening. Through the formation of rescue homes and other programs put in place to reverse the destruction made by the Turks, a new process of human rights thinking was produced focusing towards groups that had been stripped of their basic human rights. The League of Nations’ unique humanitarian efforts towards the Armenians included assertion of national rights of the…

The agony, the suffering, the painful knowledge of knowing you are going to die with excruciating pain, with no say in what happens to them, as you just watch your time run out. Assisted suicide grants someone the choice of a life or death decision in a more ethical way. Assisted suicide and suicide are two different things. Suicide is where an individual takes his/her life in a manner that is referred to as being inhumane such as hanging or a gunshot. Assisted suicide is where a professional…