International human rights law

Indonesia, programs and laws focusing on gender empowerment have abounded in the archipelago (Utomo & McDonald, 2009, p.143). Nevertheless, these multiple policies strangely have yet to deal with issues of reproductive health and rights, whose access is still very restricted and discriminatory, despite unsafe abortions accounting for five to eleven percent of maternal in the country (Amnesty International, 2010, p.10). This lack of importance accorded to reproductive rights are related to their…

personality, such personality, though strategic; at least, in my view, in the sense that it may protect the human errors, the abhorrent decisions and actions of men and women in leadership, in the name of state action to which atrocities and crimes are often committed in the name of maintaining security, welfare and tranquility. The artificial personality of states, should embrace the human beings who make up states,…

are at a high risk for human rights violations. However, we refuse to accept any illegal migrants. Another issue we recognize as a major social rights issue involves the right to privacy in a digital age. We recognize the impact the internet has had on the world, and the power and information it grants a country given full access. We believe that all individuals have the right to privacy online, protected from others. We also believe that the citizens government has a right to this information,…

Women’s rights around the world can be seen has progression, but Iraq it is seen in reverse. Women had been given rights during the 20th century. Women’s rights have been a progress throughout the world. This is seen as an issue to many nations around the world. Comparing the rights of women in Iraq to other nations allows for the governments and United Nations to help bring solutions to women. In the United States, the government has given money to NGO’s to allow for them to educate the women…

Human trafficking is a complex crime involving some of the most serious violations of rights. Although the world has come far in recognising human rights and implementing numerous reforms internationally, there is still no shortage of human rights issues that remain to be addressed. In today’s society victims of slavery are compelled into the underground world of trafficking. The Conversation discusses the seriousness of the crime and what is needed to put trafficking to an end. Sex Trafficking…

largest and most powerful international governance organizations considers women to be important. The assumption would be that the UN holds an obligation to women as half the world 's population, but Cynthia Enloe in her most recent lecture highlighted the ways women are working to be recognized and protected by the UN. Enloe began by describing the structure of the UN, which is comprised of members. These members are the governments of nations that have recognized international sovereignty.…

the resulting caste practices, as well as being drawn to modern Western ideas of rights and freedoms. He emphasized the need for social service to India’s poor. But retained traditional notions of karma, rebirth, and castes. The results of the study of Hinduism and human rights suggests that a middle way needs to be found between a recognition of plurality and distinctiveness on the one hand, and the equality of human beings on the other. A get is a halachic bill of divorce. For a woman to be…

The Truth Behind the Mask: Human Right Abuses in Transnational China Whenever I visited Beijing, China, I could see buildings of many large corporations such as McDonalds and Walmart. However, the Southern parts of China have a completely different appearance. When I was a child, I used to visit Guangzhou every year and could see many factories and thousands of workers who came from other parts of China. Nowadays, poor workers still migrate to Southern cities to work for the transnational…

notions of human rights developed fully into a researched document argued and defined by world thinkers as the Universal Declaration of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human rights was not developed out of nothing, it was heralded by idealistic people who saw the world of the early twentieth century, and wanted to define the rights that should be universal to the world. The rights that they wrote had already existed in a multitude of world governments constitutions or laws; the United…

difficulty arises in the jurisdiction to which they can be held accountable and when these international criminal courts don 't have their own policing teams it can be hard to punish people in power within their own state. By definition from Kramer and Michalowski (2005, pp. 447-448) state crime…