United Nations Commission on Human Rights

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…

While the United Nations is still accused of being a Western institution, it operates as the heart of the global legal regime and is in charge of maintaining stability among nations. Having developed significantly since its creation in 1945, the UN not only focuses on the rights and duties of states but also is increasingly attentive in sustaining the rights of individuals of those states. By enhancing the scope of the United Nations, it’s important to ask whether the longstanding structure is…

Lebanon population (Bajenkal). There are both benefits and costs to an increased population. The benefits offer a large amounts of potential labor and large skill pools. If the human potential is grasped correctly, the refugees could strengthen fiscal sustainability by altering the age distribution. On the other hand, if the human potential is not used efficiently the fiscal…

survived. Today, the tensions between Korea and Japan over this issue still exist, and cause controversy between the two nations. 3. Background and Previous Policy Efforts During World War II, many women in East Asia were victims of human trafficking and exploited for the militaries personal use. Korean women were especially vulnerable during this time and fell victims to human trafficking facilitated by Japan’s Imperial Armed Forces. Today, Korea and Japan have…

through barbaric regimes of systematic killings and genocide. In response, the world’s budding powers convened to ensure that the horrors of the Second World War would never be repeated, resulting in the formation of the United Nations. The UN worked to create a standard on human rights, and also sought to deal with the territories that were annexed from enemy states at the end of the Second World War. The end of World War Two also saw the collapse of colonialism and the realignment of the…

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) or (RtoP) is a principle that is based on the obligation or the right of sovereign states to protect their populations and other populations that may be at risk of genocide and other atrocities that can threaten humanity. R2P has three pillars: “Pillar One: Every state has the Responsibility to Protect its populations from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Pillar Two: The wider international community…

At the beginning of 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 10.4 million people worldwide were classed as refugees. That is, 10.4 million people that had fled their home country in fear of persecution. In 2011 there were a total of 1,669,725 asylum applications received worldwide, yet only 0.92% of those were made to Australia (Healey 2013). Despite being a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Australia has some of the toughest immigration policies worldwide.…

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…

There are about 2.5 million Native Americans in the U.S. today. Federally recognized tribes are considered “domestic dependent nations,” that have certain elements of tribal sovereignty preserved while still remaining subordinate to the U.S. and state governments. Out of the many that reside in the reservations, only fifty one percent of the Native American Class graduated in 2010. Due to the rising number of High school dropouts the native population continues to struggle financially and…

North Korea is being ignored by the rest of the world. The things happening in North Korea have not been labeled officially as “genocide” by the United Nations, however studies from the United Nations have shown the terrible genocide-like acts that are being committed in North Korea. “A commission of Inquiry (COI) established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), chaired by…