extracting information from its victim. But what does torture truly do? Many despises the crude method of itself, many questioned its legitimacy of gathering information. Regardless of its prohibition by the international law, torture is commonly used illegally. For this reason, in this essay I argue that torture should not be justified because it is not trustworthy, in inflicts pain towards its victim and it also dehumanize the perpetrator. Therefore, I present reasons why it should not be justified
affected remain within their national borders. The difference between refugees and IDPs is an important distinction – the former crosses an international border (refugees) whereas the latter does not (Mooney, 2003b ). Displacement has many causes. Over 25 million people worldwide have been uprooted within their own country as a result of conflict and human rights violations in particular as consequence of civil war, inter-communal
and Goodwin-Gill, 1994) However With the increasing number and gravity of armed conflicts in the world, humanitarian imperative, human rights activist, and the international community is forced to address this contemporary growth in world scenario, where children less than ten years are being forced to engage in armed conflict by armed forces. The case study of this essay is the case of Dominic Ongwen. He was the first child soldiers
Child labor in developing countries Introduction In today’s world the exploiting child as workers remains a concerning topic especially in developing countries where the protection of human rights is not regarded as being particularly strong. Human rights application result to be a controversial matter including when delicate issues as child labor and its implications on children’s development are concerned, as it consists in two opposing viewpoints on whether child labor should be legalized or not
CRITIQUE OF ONE OR TWO LEGAL PHILOSOPHICAL POSITIONS REGARDING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION. Introduction Humanitarian intervention raises one of the most controversial questions in international law of great contemporary relevance as it has its place in international politics and it is set in the state practice. In this essay I will provide an account and analysis of one philosphical perception of it and then contrast it with a different one while trying to reflex on certain issues myself and look at
makes provisions for several fundamental rights which include the right
narrations of international humanitarian law which is interpreted as the beneficiary of a long continuum of codes of warfare. It establishes that the new idea of an international humanitarian law was codified in the 1970s the Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols. Still, many of the conditions of the Protocols still continue to be vague and disputed. The essay would place stress on however the evolution of warfare makes it tough for application of the international humanitarian law in specific
1. Introduction In the last half-century water-related issues have become of growing concern for the international community. Rising global awareness of water being a crucial resource for human survival, health and development viewed against the backdrop of insufficient access to a basic water supply have necessitated addressing the challenge of its securitization at the international level. Water crises, including uneven access to water sources around the globe along with new increasing threats
government officials, religious leaders and the military – whose role was to protect their citizens, turn against a group of their citizens and why did individuals, who would normally abhor the killing of another human, act as perpetrators or bystanders to genocide? This purpose of this essay it to explain the relationship between the stages of discrimination and dehumanisation and the perpetration of genocide using the examples of the Holocaust and Armenian genocides. The Holocaust was the “systematic
Child Labour and Human Rights: Children labour in India. Overview: In the modern era of globalization and scientific achievement, mankind still struggles to overcome the deep-rooted practices of Child labour. An estimated 150 million children worldwide are tied up in child labour (UNICEF global database), mainstream in the developing countries. The essay aims to identify the problems of child labour in India, where there are high number of cases with their relation to the human rights. The objective