Essays on Human Rights

The concept of religious freedom is self-explanatory; it is the freedom to practice one’s own religion. It protects people’s right to live, speak, and act according to their beliefs peacefully and publicly. It protects their ability to be themselves at work, in class, and at...

The riots of the summer of 1919 happened between the months of April and October. This is now named the Red Summer. There were many events that led up and cause the Red Summer. When the African American soldiers came back to the U.S. after...

Texas is in essence the epitome of “the Great American Spirit.” It is wholly considered to be a place of deep culture and passion, whether it be through the cobblestone streets of Fredericksburg, historic downtown Abilene, or the rich and diverse city of metropolitan Dallas....

Police brutality has been one of the most sought-after topics in recent years. But there has seem to be this thing to linger around the term “police brutality”. When we see police brutality on the news we tend to see African Americans name attached to...

Rodney King, a black construction worker, was violently beaten by LAPD after evading officers during a traffic stop on March 3rd, 1991. The incident was filmed by a man named Geoege Holliday from his balcony, who later sent the footage to the local news station...

After WWII, the U.S. portrayed a persona as an individual on a teeter-totter. The world was divided and conflicted on the issues surrounding equality. African-Americans were closed off from the rest of the world. Their actions led to a need for a civil rights movement....

The following research report explores the views and perspectives of various nations of the world regarding Xinjiang’s human rights abuse. Articles from various corners of the world and of distinct matters were studied to gain information on China’s repression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. The...

Prominent suffragists led to progressive causes. Jane Addams established Chicago’s Hull-House, and Ida B. Wells led a campaign against the lynching of African Americans. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women joined national organizations in great numbers. Women became leaders in a range...

History shows that a lot of people are threatened when human rights way did not follow. All governments need cooperation from all parts of society in preventing terrorism because no other country can resolve terrorism on its own. Therefore, universal human rights norms should be...

Abstract Slavery has existed in countless cultures around the world throughout the vast majority of human history. From ancient civilizations to modern society, slavery has occurred in some form or fashion. However, its form is constantly evolving, and the international human rights community is struggling...

The purpose of this paper is to explore if there are any viable circumstances in which euthanasia should be permitted. Euthanasia is a term as defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an...

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of euthanasia is “the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy”. In contemporary society, it...

Since MNCs create employment, innovations, and technological advancement and increase the lives and interests of the people, they definitely have influenced on the people in a good way from around the world. In some instances, MNCs neglected the properly formulated laws and regulations in the...

Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma. The practice is illegal in most countries. The issue of euthanasia still remains a hot topic in the medical ethics world but in the general...

Introduction  A state’s preference for how it treats its own inhabitant’s results from balancing individual rights against national security. A state will therefore abuse the human rights of its own inhabitants when it believes doing so will promote national security. The most common justification by...

Euthanasia is a medical process that involves terminating the life of a patient suffering from a chronic disease that when, however, left would succumb to the illness eventually. There are two forms of euthanasia: active and passive euthanasia. Passive euthanasia is when a patient is...

Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, born on 25 October 1767, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. Famously known for his french translated article The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns, Constant depicts the several augmentations nations have...

Pressure from family members and friends is the main social condition contributing to human trafficking in Ethiopia. In societies where migrating to host countries become a culture, pushing and motivating girls to go to those countries is becoming common practice for many family members in...

ABSTRACT In general, suffering is not only a medical problem but also an existential problem that extends beyond physical pain. It is influenced by many factors such as psychological, cultural, and spiritual factors and we can deal with physical symptoms but the suffering may remain....