Unit 5 Task 4 PETA Aims – PETA educates the large audience of different people about animal abuse/cruelty and woks to promote kind treatment of animals. PETA feel that animals should be treated with the best interests, animals can suffer just like humans do and PETA recognizes this and is working to put a stop to it. PETA believes it is best to stop the problem at the cause which is at big areas where animals are held in captivity and suffer the most, factory farms, laboratories, clothing trade
Human rights violations and violent conflicts in the Niger Delta of Nigeria have elicited interests from scholars and international agencies. Although these studies provide significant insights into the conflicts in the Niger Delta, the issue of transitional justice has not been adequately addressed. Consequently, this article examines transitional justice mechanisms in the Niger Delta, gaps and prospects. The article begins with the conceptualization of human rights violation and transitional justice
What are human rights? Human rights are rights for all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of treaties, customary international law , general principles and other sources of international
Human rights violations and violent conflicts in the Niger Delta of Nigeria have elicited interests from scholars and international agencies. Although these studies provide significant insights into the conflicts in the Niger Delta, the issue of transitional justice has not been adequately considered. Consequently, this article examines human rights violations and transitional justice mechanisms in the Niger Delta. The article begins with the conceptualization of human rights violation and transitional
emotional, and other harm which victims suffered due to crimes. The word “victimology” was created in 1949 by Frederick Wertham, an American psychiatrist. The word “victim” was derived from Latin ‘victima’ which means ‘beast for sacrifice’ or ‘sacrificial animal’ and the word ‘victim’ became a keyword in official politics in the 1980s (Stringer 2015a). The four types of victimology perspectives are positivist, radical, critical and feminist. The idea of positivist victimology has been around since the nineteenth