Those who choose to live do not live an easy life. Yunu, who was attacked by her husband of three years, killed herself by jumping off the sixth floor of her building (Conley). Victims often feel isolated from society because of their physical appearance. People chose to shut them out of their lives, fearing them. This makes them feel like they do not deserve basic human rights, such as the right to live.
Their appearance not only affects them, it affects their family as well. Singh, at a young age, had acid thrown on her by a man 10 years her senior because of jealousy. She stated that her kids don’t have friends and she feels responsible for the fact that they are lonely and she can’t do anything about it. It will continue to anger her for
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It creates an unsafe environment for those who have to deal with physical and mental health issues their entire life. This imbalance of justice for those who are attacked will have a huge effect on how people view their problem. If people were to think attackers have the right to be free, it will have a negative effect on victims overall, which will lead to their loss in faith in humanity.
There’s not much being done in order to stop the cause of an acid attack besides laws over laws. And laws can often be ignored. Availability, rule of law, and inequalities only affect how the crime is done, it does not completely solve the problem. Acid attacks have happened for a long time and will continue to happen despite the laws provided to solve it. After all, the problem is only caused by perpetrators of the
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They decided current solutions should not only be an attempt to stop the cause, but to aid with the effects. India’s Supreme Court has decided to propose private hospitals specifically for victims of acid attacks. They are to be provided food, rehabilitation, and medical treatment to meet their needs (Sinha).
Along with private hospitals, the court had also ordered for the treatment to be completely free. It’s to make up for the fact that thousands of people need to spend millions on reconstructive surgery, along with the trauma of losing their face and social status (Sinha). The result of the new solutions lead to a huge change for women of India.
Ever since India’s government raised more awareness for acid attack victims, women of India, along with others around the world, are starting their own movements in order to support themselves and everyone who had experienced the same trauma. The new women's rights movement, “Make Love not Scars,” is a bold movement designed to help women of India, such as Rupa, a victim that inspired the movement
Domestic violence against women is prevalent in almost all the societies in the world. It is an issue which was not even recognised as a crime 40 years ago and is still not recognized as a crime by many societies. Women suffer from violence, including physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological violence by strangers and their partners all over the world (Kaya, 2010). Even though it is a worldwide occurrence, there are some women who face more intense and frequent violence depending on their culture, country, religion,
Throughout history, women have continuously found themselves as the subjects of oppression. Although the treatment of women has drastically changed over time, women are still exposed to much of the violence that exists today. Per the National Organization for Women, “young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape” (National Organization for Women, 2016). Women-centered violence is highly prevalent and reoccurring all over the world, even in our local communities. Individuals may be hesitant to consider just how much violence against women affects their communities.
There are many negative consequences of this law. First, many citizens could argue such law would be setting these victims apart, creating a special class of citizen whose attackers would face more serve punishments than other citizens for the same crimes based on the attributes of the victims alone. . This could be seen as providing unequal protection under the law. Equality of citizens in the eyes of the law would be called into question. Also, setting these victims apart would also possibly cause resentment, and therefore result in more hatred directed toward these individuals or groups. This hate crime law could be viewed as unfair. The American justice system is based on the principle that everyone is treated the same, and this law goes against that principal. Secondly, another negative effect would be it could be argued as unconstitutional. The Possible Constitutional Challenges to the law would be that this law would infringe on citizens first amendment. Such legislation would infringe on freedom of speech. This law would call into question where the future of hate crime laws could lead. If a citizen can be more severely punished for hate crimes, could they down the future be criminalized for other behaviors such as gestures, or certain speech that could possibly be seen as threatening toward people of specific attributes. criminalized. The freedoms of conscience and speech would be
Women rights movement’s dates back to the nineteenth century as the female gender was seeking to have a place in the society where they have their rights and entitlement fairly given to them. It was instigated by the fact that the male population by making them feel as less beings in the society. This is because they were not entitled to having their views brought out. However, in the 1970’s efforts to secure equal rights for women by eradicating gender discrimination put by institution, laws and various behavioural pattern meet serious activism (Barrett. 2014). The reforms enjoyed currently concerning women empowerment is as a result of all the atrocities that they went through at this time. It is, therefore, evident to say that the challenges faced by women in the 1970’s rights movement gave birth to new opportunities such as coming up with severe laws on gender discrimination, pushed for the Title IX law and defining rape as a crime.
On the evening of Friday, 13 November 2015, a massacre including of public mass shootings and suicide bombings occurred in the capital of France, Paris. The attackers killed 130 people and wounded 368 serious injuries. Just 10 months previous, on January 7, 2015 two terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, an office of a Parisian satirical magazine. They killed eleven and wounded eleven people. During the attacks in Paris, no one victim was armed. They didn’t have any chance to defense for themselves. When police arrived, it was too late to save the innocents. The world today is full of dangerous with terrorism, criminals, mass shootings, and so forth. We 're not safe from anything.
After the bombing in Oklahoma City, most of the federal buildings went into some type of lockdown going into the building and around the building which has probably cut down on some loss and injury. Otherwise all we can do is continue studying the problems and improve on our methods. Their is no magic wand to cure these acts of terrorism.
Beefing up security and manpower won’t solved everything, but we must be able to have Social Intervention programs that will ensure our youths are not seeking extremism to be a part of. With a healthy economy, our men and women would think twice to associate themselves to inflict wounds on our nation. Furthermore, no religion should be monitored because the religion has nothing to do with any hateful attacks, but we can’t turn a blind eye and watched one particular religion carrying out all these attacks. There must be tougher scrutiny in our community to ensure that we are not creating any
The effect on the public is that if they are victims, there may be a reluctance to report matters to the police in the first instance. This opens up a whole issue of problems for police, let alone differing type of victims within society, or vulnerable people.
The oppression of women and girls in the developing world is this era’s most pervasive human rights violation. In the world today, being a girl means being sentenced to a life of poverty, abuse, exploitation and deprivation. Denied the most basic human rights, millions of girls and women are deprived of education, security, and most importantly, a voice. And yet, despite the cruel circumstances they endure, girls and women constantly strive to rise above their oppression. Marina Nemat, author of the memoir, Prisoner of Tehran and Meena Hasina from Nicholas D. Kristoff’s Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide are testaments of the bravery and willpower of women.
In the past few decades, there have been various terrorist attacks throughout the world. Most importantly, countless acts of terrorism have been committed in the United States of America, that have gradually influenced the way the American security system and security at public buildings, public places, are run. Because of this act of terror, the American government has made protecting its citizens and country a top priority. These attacks, and the nation's response to them security-wise, still affect American's lives today physically and emotionally. Seeing that the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, September 11, 2001, and the Boston Marathon Bombing have happened on American soil, they have forever changed the way the country deals
December 2, 2015, there were 14 people killed and 21 injured from Islamic extremists. This attack took place in San Bernardino, California, and was put in place by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. The mass shooting took place at a work training event, once the shooting was over the couple fled the scene. However, the police pursued their vehicle and killed both perpetrators four hours later. They both were not affiliated with any terrorist organization, but were inspired by terrorist groups and were “homegrown” (Serrano & Bennett) Islamic extremists. As the terrorist attacks are becoming more frequent and violent, the need for a solution is increasing to handle the war on terrorism.
Freda Adler once said, “Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.” Women should not have to go thru so much pain and agony, and our voices should be heard and expressed throughout the countries. After watching India’s Daughter, a young college student that just wanted to live her dream to become something great, her life span was short lived due to 6 men raping her, by pulling her intestines out, and thrown off a moving bus.
As we all know, our vision and our hearts were imprinted by the heinous acts of violence on 9/11. The USA was assaulted by terrorist, and these acts of violence’s have continued ever since. It is like cancer, once you think you have parts of it under control it rears its ugly head and sprouts up somewhere else. The USA and other Nations like England fight against terrorism is always an overriding priority for the Department of Justice. They spend every waking hour, devoting all their resources to weaken, try to eliminate, and weaken their infrastructure, but just like a mythological creature, we cut off their heads and another one just grows back. The main issue that cause the terrorists attack was “our failure to talk about the possibility of such an event before it occurred, and it was identified by many professionals as creating a climate which made us more vulnerable” (“Schools & Terrorism”, n.d.). The next thing on our list is trying to develop a strategy to combat this, and in my conclusion I am going to explain why this is an impossible idea, based on my train of thought.
Because of all this branding and repeated exposure, we have become immune to such things happening around us while it is. In the past weeks, I have learned to identify such issues. It is a problem that the people have been conditioned for such atrocities and treat it as everyday life. We, as a member of the society, need to become more aware of the situation we are
This includes two attacks in 1975 in which FALN operatives detonated explosives at a restaurant in New York City, killing four people and wounding more than 50, and unidentified perpetrators detonated explosives at a restaurant in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing two people and wounding 11 others. The third attack—carried out in 1982 and reportedly claimed by the Jewish Defense League was an arson at a Lebanese restaurant in New York City, which killed one person and wounded eight others. Although non‐lethal, two attacks in 1984 in which members of the Rajneeshee religious cult contaminated salad bars in restaurants with salmonella, made more than 750 people ill. The goal of these attacks was to influence local