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    Throughout the globe, whether a country is highly developed or unstable, all countries must face the issue of humanitarian crisis. These misfortunes can be triggered by human action or can occur involuntarily. Ranging from natural disasters, to diseases, to internal or external conflict, each has been proven to be detrimental to the stability of the society. Haiti has recently gotten attention for being simultaneously affected by multiple crises; each of which helps to place Haiti in a trap which

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    need and potential for lawyers to have a positive impact on global governance, human rights and environmental protection has never been greater.” There are various human rights pathways to choose from when researching future job opportunities. One of the subjects that strike me when performing research into human rights career projection is one of the most common but disheartening topics of international human rights violation being women sex trafficking. (4)(2)(3) As a byproduct of war, terrorism

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    children aged 5 to 17 are engaged in near-slavery practices such as bonded labor, sexual exploitation, or in illegal activities like drug trafficking (Child). Therefore, child labor should be stopped because it is essentially slavery, undermines basic human rights, and has detrimental impact on any child’s overall well-being. Child Labor should be stopped because of corporations or businesses exploiting them and treating them almost like slaves. This trend was not uncommon in the past as it is present as

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    prestige between genders is Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia and a number of Middle Eastern countries, there exists a great deal of gender stratification. According to the 2008 Human Rights

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    any kind for the immigrant workers, domestic or otherwise. The government of UAE cannot hold preservation of national identity and cultural values to be more important than the rights of the immigrants. In their quest for cheap labor and large profit margins, the UAE government is violating human rights and social rights. United Arab Emirates immigration policies are not only unfair to the immigrants but to the local Emiratis as well. Their policies for granting citizenship to children born in

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    into becoming weapons of war. Children under 18 years old are being recruited into the army because of poverty issues, multiple economic problems, and the qualities of children, however, many organizations are trying to implement ways to stop the human rights violation. Throughout the world children younger than 18 are being enlisted into the armed forces to fight while suffering through multiple abuses from their commanders. Children living in areas and countries that are at war are

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    Now, I know that most of you don’t care about death penalty because I am pretty sure that none of us is going to commit a crime that makes us to end up on the electric chair. B. Think for a moment watch a news about a murderer who killed 15 years old boy buried him under his basement right after he was released from a prison. What should we do to him, what kind of penalty does he deserve? This story was actually happened by David

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    Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia Women’s rights have been a very controversial topic in the world for a long time and it still is today. We as people living in the United States do not really think about it as much seeing as it is not that big of a problem in the United States anymore. The thing we fail to think about most of the time is what is happening in other countries. All over the world there are still countries today where women have little to no rights and say in their own lives. In Saudi

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    soldiers are such a huge problem is because they are forced to take part in many life-threatening conflicts. Another reason is because the children are brainwashed to do as the army tells them to. To start, child soldiers are human rights concern because

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    members of the adoption agency find objectionable. Religious liberty is the freedom to follow any religion someone wishes. Religious liberties are good for people to express what they believe in as long as it does not interfere with others individual rights, discriminate against people who do not believe in the same thing as someone else, and as long as families and individuals do not get denied certain things they need or

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