The issues before the Human Rights Committee: Ensuring the Protection of Women and Other Minorities from Violence and Improving International Response to the Major Health Crisis in the African Region. Turkey believes these issues can lead to extreme detriment due to the permanence of such human rights issues and sees importance in discussing them in greater detail. Turkey awaits the opportunity to discuss these topics in detail this conference. I. Ensuring the Protection of Women and Other Minorities from Violence Turkey embraces the importance of equality among all genders and has allowed women the right to vote since 1930. Turkey sees that allowing women the right to vote has allowed for much progress. Turkey emphasizes the …show more content…
Turkey recognizes the importance of women’s rights within a community setting. Since 1926 Turkish law has been greatly improved in areas such as child custody and single home marriages, which are immense changes in a predominantly Muslim culture. Turkey observes the rise in sexual assaults amongst all countries. Within Turkey exists support shelters for women. These help shelters not only help the women escape their troubling situations, but also provides an opportunity to recover mentally from attacks. Said help centers exist in most European countries, but lack in funding, as they aim to help all victims. Turkey, currently the 16th country on a list of top donors within the United Nations, understands the importance of contributions for the betterment of all nations. Turkey advises that all countries support the DAW (Department for the Advancement of Women) as proposed in the Expert Group Meeting on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence against the Girl Child in 2006. These funds will be paid for through donations, and they will allow all countries to support those suffering from physical and emotional distress, as well as support research to further the discussion on discrimination based crimes. Kenya, through the No Means No campaigns, has seen a substantial decrease in the number of sexual assault cases from 25% to a
Many people and nations around the world are deprived of human rights. The government in the countries or nations usually can not help the people being deprived. Either because the government is too poor to, it is not one of the things the government is looking into, or the government does not know or care. Because of this certain people, or even whole populations are denied human rights and their living conditions and way of life are usually not on the positive side of things. There are many wealthier countries trying to help but sometimes that is not enough. To what extent should Canada have a role in working to increase human rights protection in other nations?
“Ideas about human rights have evolved over many centuries. But they achieved strong international support following the Holocaust and World War II. To protect future generations from a repeat of these horrors, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948 and invited states to sign and ratify it”
In 1950, China sent 40,000 Chinese troops, ironically known as “the People’s Liberation Army”, to invade a relatively large and peaceful country named Tibet for their abundant resources. Due to this national crisis, the position of the 14th Dalai Lama was given to Tenzin Gyatso (“Birth to Exile”). Over the next few decades, China’s harassment of Tibet caused a myriad of problems, such as famines, the destruction of many sacred Buddhist monasteries and other cultural sites, etc. Thirty year after the initial Chinese invasion, the people of Tibet protested out of outrage that nothing has changed for thirty years, to which China responded with brutal force to stop the protesters. Due to the Dalai Lama’s
Human rights can be summarized as the activities and freedoms that all human beings are entitled to enjoy and only by virtue of their humanity. These conditions are generally guaranteed in the constitution of the land. They are widely felt in the area as they are divided and not limited to political, social economic and cultural rights. Some of the main principles of human rights include the fact that they are inherent, inalienable and indivisible as well. In this relation, human rights can never be taken away from an individual whereby the enjoyment of one right should not infringe the enjoyment of other. They must all be respected and maintained.
Human rights are essential for all people, despite their nationality, gender, ethnic origin, color, or religion. Everyone is entitled to these rights without being discriminated against. For a long time, people were being denied these basic rights as they were being abused and tortured for things that they couldn’t control. People were tired of getting caught in the cross-fire, they wanted protection, a chance and the freedom to live. Although there was a lack of human rights before World War II, human rights have significantly improved over the post-war period, and officials are putting forth efforts to ensure that human rights are protected in modern-day society.
Throughout much of human history, certain issues have stayed unresolved for the longest time. Some are political, some are societal, and still, some are religious, but only modern day sees the conclusions to these affairs. Particularly, a human rights violation occurs when a government or other authority goes against any basic right that all humans are born with. Some of these rights include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, only in the modern-day is a violation such as injustice realized and dealt with appropriately.
b) i) One law that may be a factor in my recruiting challenge is the Ontario Human Rights Code, assuming my publich school is in Ontario. The Ontario Human Rights Code provides protection for employees from harrassment and discrimination based on factors such as, gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and marital status. This code might impact my hiring decision by making me prone to hiring people of genders, races, ages, etcetera that are not already at the school to satisfy the code. Additionally, I cannot state for example, that I am looking to hire male teachers for my elementary school, as it may be considered discriminatory against the code, even though it might be desirable for my school.
The highest court of appeal is the Supreme Court of Canada. The Supreme Court decides the importance of legal issues in the nation. Some of the decisions the Supreme Court must endure are constitutional issues, such as the rights and freedoms of Canadians, also known as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Supreme Court has the final word on how other courts must view and implement the Charter. Settlements that the Supreme Court of Canada makes, take part in critical roles that shape a durable democratic nation, as they outline Canadian civil and criminal rights and freedoms and improve the Canadian legal system.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is a body of forty-seven states united to promote and protect human rights around the globe. The council is re-selected every three years by the United Nations General Assembly, with candidates being selected from five regions; African, Asia-Pacific, Latin and Caribbean, Western European, and Eastern European states. Candidates lobbying for a seat on the council are examined on their promotion and protection of human rights, as well as their voluntary pledges and associated humanitarian commitments.
In a general sense, human rights refer to basic rights and freedoms that are believed to belong to all human beings. They are considered to be universal, inalienable and inherent in all people. (textbook) Unlike many common law countries, Australia does not have a statutory or Constitutional Charter or Bill of Rights. This means it has no single piece of documentation dedicated to the protection of Human Rights.
Human rights are protected under Australian law in three key ways; statute law, the constitution and common law. It could be argued that if Australia adopted a bill of rights, human rights would be more clearly defined, consistent in all states and territories and more easily understood.
All human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms, but where was this saying when the Holocaust was going on? The Holocaust was the biggest, most brutal, and baddest mass killing of a single race. The people on the side of the Holocaust did not listen to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or anything to persuade them to stop killing Jews. All humans deserve the rights given to them by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Based on the current population, this figure adds up to about one billion women. Statistics on the history of sexual assault are unreliable, as much of the data collected in countries are merely estimates or non-existent. Today, however, the amount of data being collected worldwide on Sexual Violence has increased (Figure 1). UN-HABITAT for example, has taken surveys on violence, mostly in Africa, to try to help with policy creation. UN Women, an organization within the United Nations devoted to gender equality and the empowerment of women, states that “at least 119 countries have passed laws on domestic violence, 125 have laws on sexual harassment and 52 have laws on marital rape” (Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women). Even with the existence of these laws, not all countries are compliant with the international standards on sexual violence. Much of this has to do with traditions such as early marriage or genital mutilation. Sexual assault today is often used as a tactic of war, as it has been in the past. An example of this is shown in Bosnia where it is believed that more than 20,000 Muslim girls have been raped there as a form of “ethnic cleansing” since 1992 (Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War ). After a UN Declaration in 1993, thousands of organizations have been created to help end sexual violence worldwide. In 2008, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his
The laws regarding rape in the country of Sudan clearly stand in violation of the basic human rights of the women who fall victim to this heinous crime. The structure of the legal system is such that it is extremely difficult and even dangerous for a victim to file charges against her rapist(s). Even if a case goes to trial, the rapists rarely receive severe punishment, and in many cases the woman herself can be sentenced to time in prison or required to pay a hefty fine. The government’s policies suggest that it is not at all concerned with protecting the victims or helping them achieve justice against their attackers, but rather that it supports the perpetrators of the crime while condemning the women as if what has happened to them is their own fault.
Within the EU itself, gender equality is an important, though often muddled, concept. It is important to consider this institution as the framework to view Turkey’s objectives as well as its current progress, as it determines both of these with the Copenhagen Criteria for membership and the annual release of candidate country progress reports. The standards of the EU are the standards Turkey must meet in order to accede. The European Commission proclaims gender equality as ‘one of the European Union’s founding values’ and cites the principle of equal pay in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Since then, the EU has worked to establish equality norms that serve as an example for candidate countries to follow. Aldikaçti Marshall identifies these in two forms: ‘hard laws or binding legal measures and soft laws or nonbinding measures.’ There have been directives aimed at gender equality