1. Hu Jia, Chinese Dissident, Released From Jail
Leading up to this movement, women were best kept "in the home"". ... Unfortunately, along with aiding the poor, these groups also unknowingly aided the public's ideas that women were made to stay at home because they were natural supporters. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. ... Two years later, in 1850, the first National Women's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts and nearly 1,000 people attended. ... Ironically, in fighting for the right of freedom, women continued to be held down by their own social standards of fash...
Imagine a working woman going through all this while performing at her highest efficiency possible to provide for her family in addition to being a home maker. ... In addition, with their exceptional dedication and militancy in New York City and Lawrence, women helped transform the image of the working woman.6 They no longer held a sense of dependency on anyone other than themselves and became appreciated for their willingness to fight for their causes. ...
Women also made up half of the civil servants corps, and 40% of the cities physicians, and many even held public office. After the Taliban took over, they forced women out of their jobs and imposed laws preventing them from even leaving their homes without a Greynolds 2 male escort. ...
The Human Rights Act 1988 seeks to give effect to the principle of "bringing the Convention Rights home". ... The most important Article under the European Convention in the context of family issues is Article 8 which provides: 1. " Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. ...
This summer while living at home with my father I had the fortune of meeting the Dominguez family from Mexico. ... This is because as shown around the world, what happens in a neighboring country can affect you at home greatly. ... During the rape, she was held by the shoulders and told: "[you'll have to] give in, with or without a fight" ("te dejas, por la buena o por la mala"). ... If things get better at home then there is a better likelihood that there will be fewer illegal immigrants and problems that we will experience south of the border....
United Kingdom (1996)2 the court held that practices such as intense noise, sleep deprivation, and subjecting the individual to stand against a wall with their limbs outstretched for extended periods didn't constitute torture. ... Article 3 will be relevant particularly to those that their job involves any of the following:- * Caring for other people. * Detaining people or looking after those in detention. * Removing, extraditing or deporting people from the UK. * Working in a place where someone may be inadvertently placed in a humiliating position, for example in nursing homes or hosp...
Perhaps this was hurt far to great for John Foster to forgive, and he held even the children of his transgressor responsible. ... The bankers and town officials worked within the law to settle Deake's accounts: they bound out her children, sent her "home" to her father, and sold all the belongings of the family. ...
There are widespread problems throughout the Oklahoma County Detention Center, that continue today. What has got to happen to make people realize there is something wrong? The United States Government has been monitoring the way this jail has been operating the past five years and nothing has ever r...
REGINA (PRETTY) V DPP, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOME DEPARTMENT AND OTHERS (2001) Assisted suicide of Diane Pretty Diane Pretty, a 42-year old mother from Bedfordshire was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 1999.Her condition rapidly deteriorated. ... It was her choice to die at home with her family around her, at the time that she chose to die, rather than be condemned to suffer both physically and emotionally. ... On 19th March 2002 the Court held a public hearing on the admissibility and the merits of the case, which Ms Pretty and her husband, Brian Pretty, attended. ...
Meanwhile, we shuffle our homeless from place to place; we illegally deprive them of property and liberty for committing unavoidable minor infractions; and they face dehumanizing discrimination both on the streets that they call home and within our justice system. ... Stephanie Goldberg explains why the courts found a 1992 Santa Ana, California ordinance prohibiting camping unconstitutional in her article, "Homeless Victory," The court held that the ordinance infringed on the right to travel by giving the homeless two choices – to go to jail or move to another town. ...
In other words, corporal punishment may be referred to as the act of causing physical pain on a student's body as a form of punishment for a certain crime or contravention which may be at home or at school. ... Socialization theory is another important theory that has been used over the last decade to discuss the effectiveness of corporal punishment to children in school or at home. ... In the effort to reinforce our argument, it's important to look at the outcomes of the convention held in 1989 in an effort to safeguard the rights of the children. ... In some US states, Belarus, R...
At this time, if the abortion law was broken there were no fixed penalties, and the woman having the abortion was not necessarily held responsible. ... This can be applied to a completely different situation; for example, the law can interfere with what goes on in the privacy of someone's home if violence is involved. ... Indeed some would probably fall through the cracks and end up in foster homes or in orphanages. ...
But if they didn't have enough proof or evidence that someone was guilty of such a heinous crime, then it's only right they cannot be held accountable for it. ... In an article from the ALCU the writer states, "In addition, the Project has challenged constitutional abuses that arise from immigration enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels, including litigation against anti-immigrant "show me your papers" laws at the state level, local anti-immigrant employment and housing laws, improper enforcement of federal immigration laws by local law enforcement, and w...
One such widely held misconception is that Mexican immigrants bring nothing but drugs, crime and filth, along with economic costliness by taking advantage of social service resources (Operation Gatekeeper: -New Resources- 1). ... East San Diego County residents had complained about the massive foot traffic of migrants near their homes. ... Residents of the area feel that Operation Gatekeeper is necessary, in order to ensure safety in their own homes and neighborhoods. ... Although this portrays a negative image towards these border crossing migrants, and Operation Gatekeeper has shown to ha...
Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for ...
The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...
In fact, when I think of the word 'liberal', Rabindranath Tagore's stirring words instantly come to mind: "Where the mind is without fear and the Head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let my country awake" Tagore made a sincere entreaty to Indians more than a century ago, albeit one that has fallen on deaf ears, time and again. ... And in this aspect, home is where knowledge begins. ...
For example, in AF v Secretary of the State for the Home Department, the House had to determine how to respond to the Grand Chamber's recent judgment in A v UK, where it held that Article 6 imposed an absolute requirement that a terrorist suspect should be informed of the 'gist' or essence of the case against him. ...
Since 1991, the EDF has suspended financial aid from countries that have not held democratic elections after pledging to do so. ... Clive Archer, an authored political scientist states: By March 1994, the EU Council of Ministers had agreed to hold annual meetings between the EU presidency, the Commission president and the leaders of the European Agreement states, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia twice yearly meetings were also to be held on the subjects of justice and home matters such as terrorism and human rights, and foreign and security questions. ...
A Guatemalan woman told Cecilia Menjivar, a professor at the Arizona State University, that every time they go clean homes at night, she and her husband never ride together in the same car for fear that they might be stopped and deported to a detention center, and separated from their children. ... Those facilities that tolerate such abusive behavior should be shut down or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents should ensure that the detainees are held in humane and safe conditions. ...
Human rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled". Proponents of the concept usually assert that everyone is endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human. Human rights are thus conceived in a Universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can exist...
To this day, there are still an unknown number of women and girls who are still being held captive by rebels ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.9). ... Like many other victims, she will now be shunned from her community and most likely kicked out of her home and left alone. ...
Human Rights of Chinese-Indonesian in Indonesia I Introduction Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person, and these rights should not be violated. Everyone has the right to live peacefully, safely, with these rights guaranteed by their governments. In 1945, all members sign...