Essays on Political Rights

Fighting global poverty is one of the most important problems to be solved for mankind in our time. This issue is of great importance not only for developing countries, where the number of poor people is huge. The poverty of people around the world is also a challenge for developed countries, since, in spite of the inner well-being, these countries are also influenced by the negative consequences of ill-being in other countries. Everything in our world is interconnected, so, for the sake of human welfare as a whole and an individual, in particular, it is needed as soon as ...

The ideology of domesticity

The women played an important role in the ideology of domesticity. Domesticity is an act of living together in a family and a home. The home life started during the 1800s and it was a time when people considered that women should stay and work at home instead of going outside. The women were expected to perform different tasks at home for other family members. Later educating women through different manuals and conventions changed the concept of domesticity. The women started the feminist movement and were informed that both men and women have equal rights. The paper investigates that ...

Introduction

Anthropology in Turkey is a rich context of gradual changes in people’s culture, social platform and political administration. Political and cultural heritage are among the key elements that have undergone the immense transformation. Efforts towards unification of the Turkish nation depicts change. These efforts led to the dissemination of Ataturk cult to unify the Nation. In the political realm, the first and second constituting declarations pivot the turning point. The 1990s saw the transformation of the PKK strategy with the aim of becoming a democratizing force in Turkey. This paper discusses the state of anthropology in Turkey, emerging ...

Objective of civic engagement: manifestation of democracy through the ballot

As a primary step towards my Project, I started with the topic of maximizing civic engagement related to the involvement of education and direct interaction with the electorate. The importance of the topic came from the fact that there has to be mass voting to ensure a clearer picture of the democratic choice. The electorate is a significant factor for not only deciding their governing representatives but also in shaping the public stand towards the formation of the right government. Hence, there has to be a vigilance or awareness drive for the voters of the region so that they ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Introduction

The emancipation of the rights of blacks in the 18th Century was significantly shaped by a series of intellectual discourse and antagonism between certain influential figures in the African American society. Booker T. Washington was an accomplished scholar who rose from being born into a slave family to becoming the head of the Tuskegee Institute. He wielded great support in the Black community and even within the corridors of power where he was a close confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt. Within the same political dispensation, there was W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the first outstanding black intellectuals ...

The language of rights as identified by Mills (2002) involves the manner in which language is approached today. Policy documents, as well as various academic literature, put language rights at the heart of their analysis. Language right-based policies are displacing traditional language planning while sociolinguistics studies have become studies of language rights. Language rights are additionally discussed as human rights, inspired by the remarkable expansion of international human rights advocacy over the last couple of years. Human rights have been looked to as values of ‘godless’ or post-political age (Klug, 2000). In recent decades, radicals and reforms have turned ...

Employers are not permitted to discriminate based on religion, particularly with companies that have nothing directly to do with religion. For companies that employ people whose job is directly shaped by religion and therefore those who religion to them is a “bona fid occupational qualification” (BFOQ), religious discrimination is permitted, but the BFOQ needs to be part of the business’s necessary operation (Eisgruber & Sager, 1994).For non-religious co-optations, that can be difficult to prove. For religious organizations, when a religious group runs the organization or has direct engagement, preferences for particular religion are permitted. Religious accommodation is required ...

Ever since attaining its independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822, Brazil has seldom enjoyed any prolonged spell as a true democracy. In fact, Brazil’s longest period as a truly democratic state began a few years ago in 1985 after transitioning from a military government. The period after independence has been dotted with a monarchy; which was one of the few in the Americas, and a series of military coups that the country became synonymous with in the 20th century. A multiplicity of both domestic and external factors coalesced to create political instability in the country with a ...

Introduction

Most of the African countries were under the colonial rule. Due to the growth of industries in Europe, which was facilitated by the concept of industrialization that saw numerous economic, social and industrial changes in Europe, European countries had to look for raw materials for their industries. Consequently, they ventured into the African continent and other parts of the world in search of places where they would get raw materials for their industries back at home (Ahluwalia, 2012). Various European countries portioned Africa into different colonies, and Kenya was taken by Britain. Kenya is a beautiful country that is ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

Understanding the Local Society in which Counterinsurgency Operations are conducted is Critical to Mission Success. Discuss. There has been a history in world political affairs when insurgency has forced single or joint counterinsurgency operations, organized in collaboration with the ruling government of that country to help it militarily to defeat insurgent forces. Before writing on counterinsurgency, we need to comprehend its meaning, which is an antonym of insurgency. According to Cambridge Dictionary Online, insurgency refers to a scenario when a country is taken control of by its people through the use of arms and ammunition, in other words, forcefully. ...

In 1950, the member states of the Council of Europe, in order to further realize the common and fundamental belief in the protection and preservation of human rights within Europe, signed the European Convention on Human Rights. (ECHR). In order the better achieved the goals set of in the ECHR, the convention established the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and provided it with the judicial power to hear and rule on cases brought before it alleging violations of the ECHR. The human rights originally protected under the ECHR and enforced by the ECtHR included the broad range of ...

Human Rights and Obligation

There is a sheer need to balance out rights and obligation in the Australian context. Human beings have the basic urge to demand their own rights, but when it come to provide rights to other, the attitude remains indifferent. Citizens should be made aware of the notion that with every kind of benefit, it comes a sense of responsibility. Human rights are the rights inherent to all people equally irrespective of their caste, creed, race, sex, nationality, religion or any other status. Every human being is entitled to human rights without any discrimination. These rights are indivisible, interdependent and ...

In the mid-1800s, females have been subject to much pressure. While white women were seeking freedom from white male domination, black women had been struggling to gain the most basic social rights. It was the era when education began and first universities were built (Frierson and Tate 151). At that time black women existed “at the intersection of race and gender”, and this issue had been greatly challenged (Frierson and Tate 151). From the beginning of the 17th century slavery had spread all over the country (Brezina 9). While the northern part of the state gradually became slaver-free, in ...

Question 1 In the mid 19th century, after the Second World War, Jews in the Arab countries faced the gravest ever case of human rights violation. The Arab regimes in the Middle East and northern part of Africa forced Jews to leave their homes or be held like political hostages. The Arabs came up with official statements that completely subordinated the Jews and threatened their civil, political, economic, and human rights. These actions contradicted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Part II and Article2.1 of the covenant states that “each state party to the present ...

In his book, Fascism, Richard Griffiths discusses how this word is an over-used term in its modern sense, specifically discussing how it relates to the ideas of: “authoritarianism, to ‘control freakery’” and how it can also “imply violence, extremism or racism; or the term can be applied to the political Right in general.” Griffiths adds that these and a “wide range of other attributes, however, made up ‘fascism’.” (Griffiths 1) Following World War One, the rise of fascism intensified in Germany, specifically, due to their nationalistic pride. When Hitler rose to be chairman of the Nazi party in 1921, Germany ...

Task: Civil rights movement was very famous in 50s and 80s almost in all parts of the world. In most cases, it assumed the shape of civil demonstrations which mainly strived to achieve transition through peaceful methods. In numerous occasions, there would be armed resistance and civil wars. The movement took quite sometime in majority of the countries, although most movements failed to attain the set objectives. However, the sacrifice and efforts that the diverse movements portrayed helped to improve the rights of groups which were discriminated against. This article will present the literary work and work of ...