International Court of Justice

An Eye for an Eye Makes the International Human Rights System Blind For a great deal of history, torture was commonly used with little to no compliant. The Egyptians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, and as well as the Church all contributed to the practice of torture and justified torture as an appropriate weapon in their armouries. Even multiple legal systems utilized torture prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century. As civilizations began developing and advancements in the area…

Truth about Police Brutality in Modern Times In current events cases of police brutality, or alleged police brutality, are controversial issues. The world is full of good people and bad people and this is the same in the police department. Just as police officers sometimes stereotype civilians by their skin color society has begun to stereotype police officers. Police use of excessive force is a big problem. There are many different cases in which police use unnecessary force while on the job.…

practice also physically and mentally tortures women for their entire lives (course pack article). The 2003 Female Mutilation Act recognizes that the genital mutilation of females is a human rights violation, and deems this practice as against international law (other fgm article). Canada is apart of numerous universal human rights…

“One Murder made a Villain / Millions a Hero.” – Death: A Poetical Essay by Beilby Porteus, 1759 Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham first coined the modern interpretation of utilitarianism in 1812, as a “defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action,” or in simpler terms, the most good for the most amount of people, serving to maximize pleasures and/or minimize suffering. How did a moral based principle created by a social reformer, less than a…

instead of theories to suit facts’ (Holmes, 2009). Criminal Investigation is a very critical aspect of the Justice System and the wider society in general. For a number of years now, the international media have been criticizing severely the handling of criminal investigations. Some of the issues that have been highlighted are flawed police investigations, which has led to miscarriages of justice (Rossmo, 2009). In these contexts, police detectives are the persons responsible for performing the…

Hutus took control of Rwanda they began planning their retribution. Eventually these tensions exploded into a nationwide genocide. The horrific actions of the Rwandan people during the hundred days of slaughter was heinous in every way and the international response being morally atrocious similarly to the actions of the Rwandans. The genocide was the result of decades of discrimination, oppression, and tension between the Tutsis and Hutus of Rwanda. Originally Hutus and Tutsis were “mostly…

Human Rights was incorporated into the UK law through the Human Rights Act of 1998. The Human Rights Convention came into effect in 1953 and was technically ratified by the UK in 1966 when it recognised the compulsory jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights . The Convention outlines fundamental human rights, including: right to life, freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, freedom from slavery or forced labour, freedom of the person, right to a fair trial,…

Herbert C. Kjellman(2015) “Building trust among enemies: The central challenge for international conflict resolution" defines reconciliation as various forms of restorative justice designed to unite and rehabilitated people through community collaboration. Often, reconciliation is a peace method that function to end wars in multiple countries. That said, Michael Wessel(2005) “Community Reconciliation and Post-Conflict Reconstruction for Peace" perspective of reconciliation is the dynamic change…

As of today, there’s various roles and positions that help stabilize the Texas government. These three specific branches aren’t just extremely important, but have comparable powers just like the federal government pertains. The legislative branch produces the laws. According to whitehouse.gov, “all legislative powers in the government is vested in [the] Congress, meaning that it is the only part of the government that can make new laws and change existing ones…” if the act is needed. Following,…

governments must act immediately to ensure that labor and other laws adequately protect women's rights, and international trade agreements should specifically prohibit discrimination based on…