Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

International Norm: Rights of Indigenous People 1. Introduction More than 370 million people in over 90 countries (representing 5,000 different cultures) identify as indigenous people. They comprise 5% of the global population, and 15% of the world’s poor. Still, some countries deny the existence of indigenous peoples within their territory or argue that “all their citizens are indigenous“ (Dahl 5). Some groups of indigenous people are so small that their languages and cultures are…

Part One: Current State of Juvenile Delinquents in Haiti Disappointing, that William O’Neill, a human rights lawyer who ran the legal department of the first United Nations mission in 1993 said pretrial detention has never been a priority of the Haitian government. (Juevinille Justice, Accessed 7/28/2016) This is a flaw in the overall justice system in Haiti. However, for Haitian youth affected by this bad judgment, it can prove to have longer lasting negative effects on Haitians in the future…

evolution of this system and its relevance today. The civil service system is often referred to a personnel administration or, a better-known term; human resources. Merriam –Webster’s dictionary defines personnel administration as the phase of management concerned with the engagement and effective utilization of manpower to obtain optimum efficiency of human resources. What we know as…

there have been many complaints by locals that the water is being contaminated by toxic metals (Zarsky and Stanley 2013). Research encourages that there is this heightened level of metal in the river close to the mine, which puts the ecosystem and human health in danger (North and Young 2013). There is also evidence that acid from the mine is being drained close by, which could be why there are elevated metals in the water, aluminum, copper, and manganese (Holden and Jacobson 2008). Many…

Part One: Information on human kinds past, present, and future have always been important for us to try and understand why we’re here and how we got here. Starting with the past, anthropology is the study of human kind, as well as the study of evolution. This is the discipline that is responsible for finding Lucy, our oldest known ancestor, and actually, the social scientist that found Lucy was Mary Leakey, the wife of Louis Leakey, who was also a social scientist, and as a result they made…

No Child Should Have a Life Sentence in Prison 14-year-old Kenneth Young received four life sentences in prison. He was convinced and forced to participate in assisting a 24-year-old male rob a convenience store. Kenneth was not a primary participant in this doing; he was only the second man and wasn’t in contact with victims or even within the general area of where the money was. He was the one to take care of getting the tape out of the recorder. Kenneth was only 14-years-old, meaning he was…

The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of a series of events in Latin America; first, the return of democracy after years of military rule; and then, the emergence of new threats to the internal security of countries. Peru is no exception in confronting threats: terrorism, drug trafficking, narcoterrorism, illegal mining, illegal logging, and organized crime, among others. These threats are affecting the internal order, the environment, the economy and the health of the Peruvian population…

Student protesters in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico have long dealt with heavy-handed police officers. But on the night of September 26, 2014, students who attended the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa realized they were facing a far worse danger in this southern city. According to an article from the Huffington Post, the students took several buses and traveled to Iguala that day to hold a protest at a conference led by the mayor's wife. During the journey local police…

oil. In May of 1990, Conoco convened a meeting at the Napo River of more than 30 Non-Governmental Organizations to analyze and tweak their EMP. The meeting backfired on Conoco and resulted in one of the NGO’s filing a writ with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Wasserstrom, R., & Reider, S., 1997, August 18). In January of 1991, Conoco convened a second meeting of all of the stakeholders to try and save the project by asking for help to develop a plan that everyone could agree on,…

complicated national relations within the European continent bonded by variety kinds of alliance treaties. Accompanying with more and more countries joining in the conflict, it had gradually led to one of the most destructive and violent wars in the human history. It is estimated that approximately 8 million people including civilians…