Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights

It has been said that the best thing about humanity is humans, and the worst thing about humanity is humans.1 When mankind can be so beautiful yet so horrendous simultaneously, the best way to describe this contradiction is to conclude that humanity is a paradox; a paradox that plays out during the most horrific and the most alluring of times in history.2 During World War II, Hitler and the Holocaust demonstrated the ugly things a human can do, but the thousands of people that aided and…

set of rights over the other, the truth is all rights are equal and reinforce the other. The divide between civil and political rights and social and economic rights was distinguished during the Cold War, when United Nations members were split between the importance of civil and political rights and social and economic rights. Each side believed in what they believed, based on a political point of view, therefore making the International Bill of Human Rights consist of the Universal Declaration…

Human rights refer to the rights which every single individual is merited to by the virtue of being human (United Nations, 2016). It is regarded as a keystone which universally empowers people to live with dignity, freedom and equality (The Advocates For Human Rights, n.d.). These rights are inherent to and inalienable from all human beings (United Nations, 2016). Unfortunately, there have been countless instances when human rights have been infringed and gone unnoticed (). The infringement of…

FORUM: Human Rights Sub-Commission ISSUE: The Right to Adequate Housing and Protection from Forcible Eviction SUBMITTED BY: Tuvalu THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, Emphasizing on the implementation of a number of Articles associated with organs of the United Nations and that forcible eviction violates of the given Articles; Noting with deep concern that forcible eviction has results having close results to mass wrongdoings such as exodus, expulsion or evacuation of indigenous groups and other such…

focused on the idea of transnationalism, along with many different movements, specifically human rights, also the issue of “…whether the humanist universalism implicit in all three movements is adequate to deal with diversity, multiculturalism and the rise of non-Western civilizational projects,” (Munck, 2007, pg 75). This leads to the idea of human rights and how “human beings are deemed to have universal rights regardless…

with their international obligation to refugees and subsequently, neglecting their responsibilities by transferring refugees to offshore processing centres in other countries. The Australian Government has rebutted any allegations to breaching the rights of refugees in offshore processing centres by claiming they hold no responsibility over the treatment of refugees in offshore processing centres as it’s not in their jurisdiction.…

Even though our bill of rights extends our rights to fair trial, I do not feel that everyone is equal before the law without discrimination as Article 7 states (UDHR, n.d.). Not only the obvious current protests regarding racial profiling and police brutality, but the obvious acts showing…

to uphold the Declaration of Human Rights? Eli Wiesel once said, “Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on December 10, 1948 as a result of the Second World War. The UN Charter decided to make it a priority to “guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere” (United Nations). Human rights are the rights that every…

A battlefield in a nameless county has troops fighting on both sides. One side is the United States of America, holding the banner freedom for all in its grasp. Shots from both sides are being fired and bombs pinpoint on their intended location, all the while a man is down below fighting simply because he was told to. This man will die on this battlefield as a United States soldier fighting for people he has never seen. He has a wife and kids, his son graduating high school looking to be just…

Harrell and classmates, this evening I will be giving you my thoughts on human trafficking and why it is a violation of human rights and should be treated as a crime. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing activities of domestic and transnational crime, governments should strengthen legislative and law enforcement efforts to prevent and combat trafficking and to protect…