Why does the death penalty exist in countries claiming to protect and respect human rights?

” The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it.” Death penalty in a today’s world is a very controversial subject. It is mostly banned and not used in practice, but some countries still retain the right to punish its citizens in such a way, some of which … Read more

The Bhopal catastrophe

Introduction Described as the world’s ‘largest peacetime disaster’ (REF-Jubilee), the Bhopal catastrophe of December 3, 1984 lead to the immediate loss of 2,100 lives with 200,000 people suffering injuries. (REF-Litigation) Notwithstanding it further created a vortex of legal uncertainty and culpability which emanated a sense of corporate invulnerability within the industrial world. After what seems … Read more

Psychological Effects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

RELATED REVIEW OF LITERATURE Psychological Effects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In the Journal of Gabriel Twose and J. Christopher Cohrs, Human rights can be understood as a basic right that protects fundamental freedoms and human dignity regardless of its nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, language or other status. These rights are indivisible, interdependent, … Read more

Right to freedom of expressions/speech

Introduction: Each Human in this world has an opinion, idea and expression and its different from one to another this opinion might be in politic, sport, education, culture, color, life style, type, religion…………etc. expressing this opinion in public  without fear , interference, sanction, from government , media and other people is called the right to … Read more

Human Rights Violations in Palestinian territories

Prior to the outbreak of World War I, the Ottoman Empire had maintained control of the Middle East for nearly four-hundred years. At the end of the nineteenth-century, Palestine was divided between the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Syria Vilayet, and Beirut Vilayet (cite). The region was predominantly inhabited by Arab Muslims, with smaller populations of Christians … Read more

What draws the line between a rite of passage and a violation of human rights? (FGM)

What draws the line between a rite of passage and a violation of human rights? Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a well-known ritual within the continent of Africa (Leonard, 1996). It has been stated that more than two hundred million African women have undergone this cultural rite of passage. There are a number of regions … Read more

IHRL/treaties & conventions on torture/wrongdoings of US Military Police Officers

1. Introduction In the quest for combating terrorism, the U.S. initiated the Global War on Terror (GWOT), deploying U.S. military forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq. In the years after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the U.S. led a headstrong coalition of western military forces in the Middle East. In 2003 the Iraqi … Read more

Children and human rights

Human rights are basic rights that each person in the world is entitled to. These rights apply regardless of age, race, gender and culture & beliefs, these are in place without any discrimination to anyone. Human rights are set out and can never be removed from an individual, they are defined and protected by law. … Read more

Empowerment of women and the equality with men (Jordanian women)

The Empowerment of women and the equality with men has been a global issue since early period of time because empowerment is a very important issue in order to achieve development. The United Nations made huge efforts to integrate gender equality, they organized different conferences on women starting from 1975 to improve women’s rights however; … Read more

Ethics in Globalization

Business globalization or worldwide economy requires the presence of the international and widespread ethics and morals. As per the humanist Anthony Giddens which is cited variously, for example, Pintado (2002), Bonaglia and Goldstein (2003) “globalization implies the strengthening of social connections on a worldwide scale in a manner that makes reliance on what happens at … Read more

Justifying the Belief in Human Rights: A Social Epistemological Approach

1. Introduction Human rights are traditionally defined as claim-rights of an ethical nature, which invoke all parties other than the right-holder to fulfill a moral obligation to secure the right-holder’s access to certain freedoms. They are universal, and serve the general purpose of “[securing] minimal levels of decent and respectful treatment so that human beings … Read more