Human rights

international human rights treaties. Each of the treaties was monitored by a committee of experts in implementing the treaty provisions by member states. Some of the treaties were supplemented by optional protocols" to deal with specialized concerns (United Nations, 2010). An emerging aspect of human rights is that international human rights law applies to multinational organizations and private-sector companies (Fariss, 2014). Some scholars argue that the treaties of the International Bill…

This essay asks us whether universal human rights law needs to be understood within local contexts in order to be effective. Simply put the answer is no. In fact, the opposite is true. Local context, culture to be more specific, needs to be understood in respect of universal human rights law. Gone are the days of isolated societies acting with impunity under their own laws subject to no scrutiny. Today’s world is one where borders are porous, people are connected via television and the Internet,…

Is abortion a human right? Some would say yes. Most would say that it is it not. Is there a viable reason that explains the large split over this topic or is our population simply stubborn? Society treats abortion like it treats shock therapy. According to David G. Myers, a professor of psychology at Hope College in Michigan, United States, “No matter how impressive the results are, the idea of electrically shocking someone into convulsions still strikes many as barbaric” (Myers 633). In terms…

Introduction Human Rights are ‘universally applicable social or material entitlements, essential to fulfill fundamental needs, which individuals can claim from society on the basis of their humanity’. (London, Ravgaven-Baldwin; 2006 22). In the health care sector, health and human rights are ‘inextricably linked’ (WHO dj ajsd ww…), where one cannot be implemented without the other. In this essay I will clarify the importance of the knowledge of human rights by the health care provider and then…

enforcement of human rights on an international level. Those bodies that are not able to enforce decisions or laws primarily deal with the promotion of these rights. These include non-legal responses such as the media and non-government organisations. They must work in conjunction with courts and tribunals that do have adequate power to enforce their findings although these are often very costly options. Each response has at least some effect on the promotion and enforcement of human rights…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a violent place to live; many human rights violations are being broken. The authorities are taking away basic freedom of expression and assembly rights that are protected under Congo’s constitution and international human rights law. The government will not allow them to speak freely about their political views. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the east of the country, all forms of sexual violence have been named the worst in the world.…

Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the article #3 said "Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person. I chose this article because after I read the pearl that broke its shell, I noticed that it was so hard for the man of that time to respect the right of liberty and security of the women. At that time women hadn't liberty, they were treated like slaves. They had to do whatever they were told to do. In the book "The pearl that broke its shell" the author…

arrival into the world with the human rights to live. An innocent human being, unable to speak any words, outcasts an array of cries to communicate their needs for survival. This child is brought into the world with deserving rights of protection. Simply being allowed to be, to have, or to do all because it is human. Alikeness to this baby, I own these rights or principals as well. Would you know what human rights are exactly? Human rights, also known as natural rights for individuals include…

presented on their health. These kids did not deserve to be mistreated in such a way; used as objects and denied basic human rights causing them so much misery. Jumping to present day, various disciplines conduct research dealing with human collaboration; including anthropologists who study people, their cultures and their…

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…