Neighborhood watch

Karla Jacinto was raped 43,200 times, and that's just a rough estimate. Up to 30 men in one day, seven days a week, for four years of her life. Karla’s abuse started as young as the age of 5 years old, she came from a dysfunctional family, and was sexually abused and mistreated by a relative. Her journey starts when she was 12 years old, waiting for some friends by a nearby subway station in Mexico City, a little boy who was selling sweets approached her, telling her somebody was sending her a…

The world is not perfect. People experience death, torture, and poverty. They cry for help, yet the people who are in need are children. Around the world, children are forced to kill innocent people. Children become tools of destruction not of their own will. In fact, the civil war occurring in South Sudan not only consists of battles between armed men and rebels, but the war also involves around the use of child soldiers ("Terrifying Lives of Child Soldiers [analysis]”). Child soldiers are…

In schools, students are taught about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Students are taught about what rights these documents give you, but do not talk about the things that violate them. Human trafficking violates both of these documents, as it using people as currency. As of 2005 (Roots, 1) in the Criminal Code of Canada, under section 279.01 to sections 279.04, it is stated that six offences in the criminal code specifically…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

Every year, between 600,000 and 800,000 people, eighty percent being women and children, are victims of human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as ”the recruitment, transport and receipt of people across borders by improper means for an improper purpose, such as forced labor or sexual exploitation." Human trafficking generates about 32 billion dollars each year and is the third largest source of illegal trade, behind guns and narcotics. Human trafficking has a traumatic…

The legal definition of the death penalty in Merriam-Webster is death as punishment with reference to a crime. The death penalty also known as capital punishment is a fancy word for legally killing people (Amsterdam). Since 1796 there have been 1,434 people who have been executed through capital punishment. Currently approximately 3,300 people still await execution in the United States.This form of punishment is expensive, cruel, violates human rights, and an execution of the innocent could very…

According to Brown ‘’ Child labor take many forms. Agriculture is by far the largest sector employing children with unpaid family farm work dominating. Some 60 million children are involved. Young girls who should be in school are collecting water and firewood, or caring for siblings. In west Africa, an estimated 2 million are involved in cultivating cocoa, while some 400,000 are working on India’s cotton seed farms.’’ (2016). While these children are not being giving their human rights, child…

Human trafficking is a phenomenon is across the board in the developed world. In the United States, more than 15,000 individuals are constrained into what might as well be called subjection consistently. Regardless of the possibility that this transnational wrongdoing has its underlying foundations in the creating scene, its branches connect with the central issues. 200 years’ prior servitude demonstrated a primary side of humankind; it appears that today the issue returns, just now, the…

Coming up to late 1990s, the United States had gone through an immense amount of economic and technological growth. With the rise of the internet, and the underlying stigma of convenience that revolves around technology, the United States’ capitalistic mindset has officially transitioned into a new era known as the information age. Synonymous to other time-periods where the standard of living rose, The 1990s going into the 2000s was a time of growth in terms convenience and comfort. With both…

Individual Reflection This semester, I have learned about overall human rights, the theories of Hobbes and Locke, women’s human rights, genocide, group rights, and healthcare rights. This class challenged me to think deeper about what I personally believe and about our global problems. Because of our group research about human trafficking in Cambodia, I learned much more about women’s human rights violations than I ever would have found out. Two of the works that resonated with me this semester…