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Introduction
For many years, Amnesty International has been a champion for global humanitarian and human rights issues. With the world continuously evolving, Amnesty International has adapted to these changes and accommodated them. Due to population growth, the world has witnessed continued conflicts over resources specifically in Africa and the Middle East. These conflicts are fueled by political regimes and their ideologies, (Weinstein 2010). Terror groups such as Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab and Islamic State (IS), have continuously violated human rights. In most African countries, dictatorial rule has come under threat with masses becoming more educated and informed of their human ...

Introduction

Amnesty International (AI) is an IGO (Intergovernmental Organization) which boasts of a global membership in approximately over 150 countries and a total of approximately three million members (Amnesty International, 2011). Its main area of interest is in protection of human rights and campaigns to stop crimes against humanity. The vision of Amnesty International describes a world where all individuals enjoy international standards of human rights as per the International Declaration of Human Rights. AI is independent of any religious, political, governmental or economic interests.

History of Amnesty International

AI began in 1961 as a result of the outrage of a British lawyer called Peter Beneson. He was outraged ...

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“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture, and the arts.”—James Madison
The above quotation made by one of America’s founding fathers, shows the crucial role that immigrants play in developing the United States. Nevertheless, there are those who argue that despite immigrants’ playing a significant part in the development of the nation, illegal immigrants should be deported as soon as they are identified. Others have objected to this practice based on the grounds that if ...

Clayton Lockett was a 38-year-old murderer of a 19-year-old girl whom he shot twice and then buried while she was still alive (Connor, 2015). Following his conviction, he was sentenced to death in Oklahoma by lethal injection. Fifteen years later in April 2014, his execution was botched when inadequate drugs, an inability to find an adequate vein for instillation, and inappropriate administration into muscle tissue resulted in an agonizing and prolonged death. The public’s response to the news releases ignited again the debate over the use of the death penalty for punishment of the worst offenders in society.
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China’s first functional connection to the internet was in 1994. This was done using a 64K international dedicated circuit provided by Sprint Corp (Taneja and Wu, 2011). However, the country did not enjoy the fruits of the internet since its government started regulating internet services and contents in 2000 (Taneja and Wu, 2011). At this time, access to the internet was still considered a luxury since only top elite mostly found within research institutes, foreign companies, and state organs owned it. China was not only trying to strengthen its ideological control over the new technology, but also trying to take ...

- A brief background of the Tibetan Human Rights Crisis
It is quite evident beyond any reasonable doubts that that the human rights for the Tibetans have been violated over some reasonable period of time. The violation of most of the fundamental human rights for the People of Tibet has therefore become a key area of prime concern. The violations have been characterized by a constant rise in the number of government restrictions on religious, cultural and other types of freedoms. (Epstein, 2003). The Chines government has meted out some very repressive policies on the Tibetans making life very unbearable. ...

Abstract

Since the end of the Great Wars, the international community has worked double time to improve the human rights conditions of the public. Throughout the conflicts that transpired for years, citizens were persecuted in the most horrific means in order to gain information or punish the innocent. Several important conventions were established after the war to fight against these torture incidents such as the United Nations Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Convention. Many states are signatories of these Conventions; however, it is a question if these conventions can still be applicable today especially as several conflicts continue to ...

Men’s violence in an intimate relationship from a feminist perspective

Domestic violence and violence in an intimate relationship is an age-long phenomenon. This paper argues that men’s violence in an intimate relation from a feminist perspective mainly because of social norms of male superiority and feminine learned weakness as well as alcohol abuse in most homes. According to feminist views, men will inflict violence when women show weakness and are unwilling to report their case to the law or seek help from getting abused in an intimate relationship. Men have been indulged in domestic violence making their wives subjects of abuse and out of shame or humiliation, women ...

Are "Tasers" a legitimate law enforcement tool or are they too dangerous to the health of suspects and should be taken out of the hands of officers?
Ever since the 1990s, when Tasers were introduced into the law enforcement scene, there has been great controversy, as to whether they comprise a valuable law enforcement tool in the hands of police officers, as well as corrections officers, or if there has been police misconduct and abuse. With a sudden burst in the sales of Tasers, with numbers of law enforcement agencies using Tasers having risen from 1,700 to 8,700, from ...

A social issue is a social problem that is associated with society’s perception of every individual’s personal lives. Perceptions vary in every culture and what may be normal behavior and norms in one society may be a significant social issue in another society. In my argumentative essay am going to consider a gender issue where women are seen as victims of violence. Across the world women has been denied equal rights, hence increasing their vulnerability to various types of violence (Amnesty International USA, 2013).
However, it seems that domestic violence is a global problem since there have been no formulate ...

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Human Rights in Corporate Social Responsibility
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How can companies decide what Human Rights to be concerned about?
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How can the Due Diligence process be made to work for companies?
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References
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Human Rights in Corporate Social Responsibility
A major but highly underestimated topic related to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility in today’s world is the issue of Human Rights. Human rights are generally defined as the ‘inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because he or she is a ...

Introduction

Darfur in Sudan has been a point of severe government-sponsored violence for more than a decade. The government-supported troops committed massive killings in this region with the stated purpose of suppressing rebellion forces. However, innocent civilians are also being brutally attacked by these troops. This paper will critically evaluate the issue of Darfur genocide and its devastating impacts on the region.

Brief Discussion of the Scenario

The Darfur genocide, the most horrible genocide in the 21st century and other devastating issues began in the Sudanese territory in 2003. Even after a decade, it is still an ongoing crisis in the country. This ‘Darfur conflict’ ...

As the development of transportation and communication technology has increased in light of globalization, immigration has had a significant impact on world politics, and it has become a central theme in political discussions focusing on international relations. In light of the substantial and ongoing issue of American immigration, immigrant populations are dealing with prejudice, unfairness, and xenophobia more than ever before. Given America’s status as the great melting pot, it is one of the biggest receivers of immigrants from other countries, thus, the impact that caused by immigrants is a crucial factor that affects many aspects of the American society and ...

For quite a long time, the problem of illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico is one of the biggest problems. Every night, the border between the United States and Mexico crosses the hundreds intruders. Most of them, of course, will be caught, however, a few months later, they will be in the United States again. The length of the border between Mexico and the United States is about 2000 miles and the number of crosses of the border is the biggest in the world. Thus, it is the busiest border in the world. Partly along the border was built a ...

Human Rights Framework Will Eventually Alleviate All Forms of Violence against Women

The major main forms of violence against women are battery, rape, domestic abuse among others. Although sex is enjoyable at sometimes it needs to be understood that rape is forced and the consent of the woman is not needed in order to engage in the act. Men are the main abusers of the rights of women and women over the years have had to come together in order to ensure that men do not take advantage of their vulnerability. Although in some countries it has borne fruit, it is worth noting that in most other countries things are not ...

Background information

In 2011, Syria plunged into political violence in the wake of the Arab Spring. The protests were aimed at the government of incumbent President Bashar al-Assad and later developed to become a rebellion. The country witnessed unprecedented destruction, occasioned by loss of property and human lives. The rebel group fighting to ouster the government were countered by pro-government Shia groups. Despite many years of international intervention, the Syria civil war has degenerated into a bloodbath. Consequently, many Syrian nationals have fled the country while millions others are in need of urgent humanitarian aid. Studies by Lobatos revealed that by ...

How elections may lead to political violence

Introduction
Elections are supposed to function as a peaceful means for making decisions and settling political differences. However, they do not always function in this way: sometimes, they trigger political violence. Especially ethnically divided societies are often thought to be prone to such dynamics. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the 2007 Kenyan elections and the 2006 and 2011 elections in Zambia. Working with these cases, it asks, first, whether the presence of ethnic diversity must lead to violence around election time. In a second step, the paper gives an analysis of under what conditions ethnic diversity tends to lead ...

Introduction

Australia’s current legislative approaches regarding asylum seekers are a strongly contested area of public policy. The issue of where and how to process the growing number of asylum seekers that arrive at the border has become a significant matter in terms of 2013 Australian federal elections campaign. However, no proposed solution appears to be without its weaknesses. In the past, the Labour Government has considered various countries to launch offshore processing, such as Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Nauru. However, these potential solutions have met with legal obstacles to prevent them from going ahead. Similarly, the future reforms promised by ...

There has been conflict between the President and Congress in United States of America for a long time. The sources of conflict range from varying terms of office, fluctuating support for the president and constitutional ambiguities. Other factors affecting the relationship are the constituencies represented and political party representation in the senate.

This paper examines the conflict between the Obama administration and the senate on the DREAM act and the ability of the president to bypass congress to achieve his own agenda. This is not the first time the President has used his power to bypass congress.
When it ...

This research paper addresses the following issues regarding capital punishment: Are convicted defendants easily convicted and sent to death row because they cannot afford high dollar lawyers? Is there a moral difference when the state kills as opposed to an individual? Should punishment be based on "eye for an eye" edict or the one that says to "turn the other cheek"?

For the purposes of this paper, research is focused mainly on the United States.

Research
Regarding the first issue, Amnesty International quoted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who in February 1994 stated that “the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake”. The quotation preceded an article ...

Homeschooling began as a solution for kids in rural sections where it was simply easier to be home schooled than to travel to a public school. Now there more than “1.5 Million Home Schooled Students in the United States in 2007” and it is growing at roughly nine percent per year. The reasons for homeschooling are numerous; the effects on individuals and society are great, and regulations are quickly becoming a necessity. This need for regulating homeschooling is becoming more complex because laws that govern it depend on individual state law. Without regulation, the population will eventually be affected in both academic ...

Homeschooling is complex because regulations that govern it depend on state laws, and all states have different homeschooling regulations. However, in general terms, states are divided into no notice, low regulation, moderate regulation, and high regulation states regarding the level of home school monitoring (“State Regulations Surrounding Homeschooling”). However, recent changes in the legal system indicate that states are no longer willing to trust parents and children who resort to homeschooling. A brief analysis of the amount of children in homeschooling and the parents’ motivations for homeschooling indicate that potential issues should be solved through strict regulations. Rather than ...

There will always be a difference of opinion when it comes to many issues. It is more than how someone personally feels, its politics, and the religious views of groups and the way a person wishes to be viewed by his peers is usually more important. It is hard for someone to stand up for something they believe in when they know that controversy and negativity are sure to follow. The way someone feels about abortion or racism are huge topics of discussion but there is also the other big one which is the death penalty. Should the death penalty be ...

Exposure to Racial Discrimination in Criminal Justice System

The criminal justice system of the United States comprises several challenges and flaws, while the issue with the spread of the racial disparity poses the most significant problem to the welfare of the citizens of the country. This problem is not new to the criminal justice system as it has roots in the XX century with the consideration of the cases of African Americans in trial. In the beginning of this period of time, African Americans amounted to 10% of the entire population of the United States, while the amount of the sentenced prisoners may be regarded as relatively ...

History is full of wars, battles, rebellions and revolutions between peoples all across the globe for a plethora of reasons, both, ethical and unethical. When issues cannot be resolved and unrest begins to stir it is, fairly, inevitable, especially when that unrest involves a greater dominating force oppressing a more vulnerable one. This is when rebellion can occur and revolutions begin. One of the most famous revolutionary wars is, of course, the fight for American independence from British rule. But there was another revolution that took place, in the same era, where people rebelled against their oppression in order ...

Introduction

Despite the many advances that Americans have made in the issue of civil rights for minorities, there is still a long way to go toward addressing the systemic and institutionalized inequalities minorities experience. Observing the criminal justice system of the United States and its systemic discrimination of minorities, it is clear that many obstacles still exist that unfairly burden African-Americans and other minorities in America. A large number of instances and research reports suggest that the American criminal justice system is biased and prejudiced while treating minorities as compared to whites. As a result, the intrinsic unfairness and discriminatory practices of ...

Abstract

The concept of the death penalty is one of the world’s most sensitive issues due to the fact countries are divided over its use and validity. While there are nations who have slowly removed the death penalty in their penal code, there are states who still see its worth and continue to practice it against the worst criminals in their history. Currently, countries like the United States and Iran continue the practice of the capital punishment despite the controversies regarding their executions and the nature of death penalty itself. However, it is visible that both nations varied extensively ...

Death Penalty

DEATH PENALTY 2
Abstract
The main aim of this research is to depict history of the death penalty from its evolution and to show the role of it nowadays. A comparison of old and modern methods of execution reveals the movement to human and democratic world. The ancient death penalty can be characterized as one of the most cruel and varvarous methods. The execution in the Middle ages is also inhuman. Today, the society undergones transformation and develops of painless means of execution. Specifically, this paper considers such kinds of execution as burning alive, decapitation, hanging, boiling ...

Throughout the American history, young offenders as young as seven years old have been incarcerated and held in the same facilities with grownups. The state of New York was the first to notice this injustice and in the 1824, the House of Refuge was opened. It was the first house of reform in the United States of America. States followed suit and established their own reform houses. In Maryland, children were held in a separate facility for the first time in history. In 1899, the Cook County in the state of Illinois opened the first juvenile court. The proceedings in ...

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Ending a guilty person’s life licenses no one to be cruel. All the more so, when the clearest most certain evidences leading to a verdict are still at scope for human error. These odds of innocence were enough to entitle a degree of respect to anyone. Those people who stand as witnesses to an execution, such as the relative of the victim and offender, the prison staff, and sometimes assigned journalists, come from distinct perspectives. Nonetheless, a good person would not look forward to see someone break a neck, as in the case of hanging, being electrocuted to death, ...

The issue of illegal immigration in the United States is an extremely polarizing issue, one which divides Americans and is a constant hot button issue in American politics. Illegal immigration can be defined as the entry of a non-legal citizen who has not gone through proper legal channels to gain residency in the United States. These individuals reside in the country and even work within it, all while not being registered or legally recognized as an official US citizen. Most illegal immigrants in America come from Mexico and other Latin American nations, and can be found in all areas of the ...

The death penalty in Texas has long been a controversial issue – the idea of putting someone to death for their crimes is thought, by some, to be an antiquated idea that went out with the stocks. However, there is still significant public support for the measure as a deterrent. When considering the prison costs and the flaws inherent in the justice system, it becomes somewhat clearer that the death penalty is not a cost-effective or ethical measure. Given the non-unanimous level of support for the death penalty, as well as the possibility of executing innocent citizens who have been wrongfully convicted, the ...

Death Penalty Economics

Introduction
The death sentence is one of the most extensively discussed and researched topics. A death penalty is also known as capital punishment. It is a judicial sentence where a criminal is put to death after being found guilty of a heinous crime like murder. During the ancient times, the death penalty was allowed and practiced by most countries. Its existence can be traced back to the eighteenth century in the code of King Hammurabi who strongly believed in capital punishment.
The debate on the death penalty has led to the development of two schools of thought. There are the ...

The consistent and continuing armed conflict in the world often takes its toll on the weaker groups. One of the most affected of these sections is the child. The use of children in military actions, paramilitary, armed conflict or any kind of warfare is illegal and internationally prohibited. However, the fighting functions in the world have exploited the deficiencies in systems and lack of regulatory and prohibition bodies to facilitate the use of child soldiers. This has had a negative effect on the development of the child, often with the result that the children become war like with a liking for ...

Since the United States gained independence, numerous illegal immigrants entered and still continue to enter the country. Most of these immigrants come to the U.S. with the aim of acquiring better jobs and lives than what they had in their home countries. It is estimated that there are about 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States (Gaynor 4). This land of opportunity will undoubtedly continue to attract many who have limited chances of success in their home countries.
People end up as illegal immigrants in different ways. Some cross the border illegally, in most cases having ...