Essays on Human Rights

Following the institutionalization of the Fourteenth Amendment to mitigate the contemporary discrimination based on race, the right of citizenship by birth was bestowed upon individuals born within the jurisdiction of the United States. In essence, the research explicitly explores the human rights law in a bid to endorse the effective...

Physical attractiveness and employment Physical attractiveness and beauty have become an asset and talent when it comes to being employed. Like any other jobs, careers like modeling use these assets because it's mostly required for success. Other careers that don't require beauty including being a doctor and engineering as expected requires...

Heterosexism, just like other sex orientation stereotyping refers to abject discrimination of heterosexists premised on the belief that portraying such a trait is defiance to the standard straight sexual orientation that the majority of the society ascribes to. They face intense social exclusion; prejudices as well as threats of homophobic...

Social justice and Human rights are interrelated, and they are working together towards a common goal of promoting the well being of all human beings.  Human rights are essential to the social justice advocacy because they both foster compliance with attributes like dignity, respect, and self-determination.  Just like human rights...

Introduction As Amartya Sen (2001) expressed, evidence of gender inequality exists all over the world that can be expressed in cold, hard statistics, such as the number of missing women in developing countries. According to the conflict perspective in gender privilege theory, “Continued domination by males requires a belief system that...

Equality Maryland Equality Maryland is an organization dedicated to advocate for equality for all people despite of their race, sexual orientation, age, gender or any other issue that may be insignificant yet a source of discrimination against anybody. Transgender discrimination is an issue that has caught the attention of many people...

In Where the US Falters Jessica Ravitz explores areas where the United States lags behind in equality of women either in practice or principle. CEDAW Ratification To start with, United States is among the seven countries that are yet to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) provisions. CEDAW...

Since its independence in 1776, United States of America has had a depraved history of racism. Socially and legally approved rights and privileges were given mostly to white American but not to the African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans. There were separate schools for the whites and other communities (Winter 12)....

Discriminatory Treatment of Police towards Citizens Why is the manner in which the police handle people depending on their class and ethnicity termed to be discriminative? The intensity of force used by law enforcement agents completely contradicts their training and imperative to serve and protect. Both articles explore the issue of...

Death penalty is one of the most controversial topics of this decade. There are many people who are pro and against the ideology and acts that bring forth very substantial reasoning. The most agreeable reason that people use is the fact that life is sacred and no one should be...

The United States' Undocumented Immigrants The United States has millions of undocumented immigrants who came into the country as children before attaining the age of sixteen years, and their parents do not own legal residence in the US. This group of people accounts for 1.3 percent of the American population, and...

The Similarities and Differences between Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X The essay discusses the similarities and differences between Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. Malcolm X was an American Muslim who served as a minister and an activist for human rights. His life (1925-1965) is understood by many...