Essays on Human Rights

Introduction Capital punishment or death sentence is a kind of punishment executed on an individual as a result of committing a serious crime like murder, treason, armed robbery or war crimes. For several years, there have been arguments concerning this kind of punishment as to either to abolish it or not....

Over the years, African Americans in the united states have undergone discrimination form the white people. There has been a series of segregation of facilities where the blacks and whites have the same facilities in different area (Möschel, 2014). The blacks...

Any employee can encounter demotions, blocked opportunities, docked payrolls and insult. When such aspects of discrimination are directed towards a particular social group of individuals in the workplace due to their identities, an issue known as employee discrimination gets revealed. Regardless of the existing laws prohibiting workplace discrimination, such as...

Deliberations on Gender-Based Diversity in Top Levels of Management Deliberations on the role that gender-based diversity in the top levels of management plays in the performance of organizations have been raging for ages. Ruiz-Jiménez, Fuentes-Fuentes and Ruiz-Arroyo in 2016 attempted to contribute to the topic through their research focused on knowledge...

The long-held stereotypes that portray women as inferior in the cockpit have for long crippled their dreams to become pilots. The research paper will address the research problem which gives statistical facts about women proportion. The research paper will also focus on some of the reasons why there is a...

The problem of gender disparity and minority discrimination in the United States is yet fully addressed. Aviation jobs are not open to every society. The proposal addresses the need to carry out research on why such disparity has existed for so long. The article is centered on the most current...

Social Media's Impact on Society and Character Building Social media plays a crucial role not only in the society but also in character building at large. In fact, social media is currently a hotbed of politics and racism as well just to mention a few. Social media seek to bring people...

Ableism: Discrimination Based on Disabilities Ableism is the discrimination of individuals based on their disabilities which might either be emotional, physical, or psychological. It limits people's potential since the disabled are disregarded in preference of the able-bodied individuals. Ableism gives the society the perception that people with disabilities require fixing and...

Discrimination: Forms and Inequality Often discrimination takes various forms, and it may be based on either of the following; race, skin color, origin, ethnicity, religion, age, and gender among other factors. Discrimination is considered as a form of inequality as it disadvantages an individual based on either of the above grounds....

Humanitarian intervention is the use of the force of military to terminate human rights violation against another state. Either the definition is not sufficient enough for it does not cater for the non-military forms such as international sanctions and humanitarian aid. On this perspective, where non-forcible methods of intervention, it...

Genocide: A Historical Perspective Genocide is not a new thing when mentioned and has existed for the longest time. By definition, Genocide refers to violent crimes which are usually committed towards a group or groups whose intent is to destroy the group and its existence totally (Goldhagen). Genocide is generally defined...

Mental illness has long been in existence in our societies. It is an issue that has existed for a long time. People have often feared people with mental illness which is a perception among many laypeople. Based on medieval theory, mental illness is associated with evil spirits. Although it has...