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
causing a stained reputation in the international community. The mandatory and indefinite detention of children violates international law by breaching numerous agreements. This essay will discuss why mandatory detention was introduced in Australia, the divergent stakeholder responses to mandatory detention of children, how equitable current legislation is, and will compare Australia’s migration policies with other nation and offer recommendations to the law. Australia’s policy of mandatory detention
Human rights and fundamental freedoms are concerned with the inherent dignity and security of all human beings which, when upheld and encouraged respect for, ensures that society operates by the rule of law which secures equality, justice, peace, democracy, development and better standards of living and unity. The legal protection of basic human rights is often found in a Bill of Rights. A Bill of Rights is the formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of citizens of any federation which
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
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
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
In order to fully grasp the impact of Humanitarian Intervention in a postmodern international stage, questions will be addressed in this essay; can intervention ever be genuinely and purely ‘humanitarian’? Can humanitarian intervention ever be reconciled with the norm of state sovereignty? To solve of these questions, research from experts, such as Andrew Heywood and Noam Chomsky, will be interpret and study. For the purpose of this work I intend to use this term with the following limitations,
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