Human Rights Essays

Rights and Status of Women and African Americans in the Cold War Era
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Nov 2021
Introduction: African Americans aren't the only ones who have faced struggles in the past fifty years, women have made huge advancements in regards to sexual, economic, and body rights....

The Crisis of Humanitarian Aid in Syria
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Nov 2021
Introduction: The seven-year Syrian civil war has claimed the lives of approximately half a million people and displaced around eight million....

The Declaration of Independence
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.  Its purpose was to declare the 13 colonies in America free and independent from Great Britain, get other colonists on board, and to encourage other nations to help them.0...

Gender Inequality: Causes and Impacts
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: Materialist theories define gender inequality as a result of how men and women are tied to the economic structure of society. They believe that women’s role as a mother and wife are devalued by society and deny access to highly respected public opportunities....

Cultural Relativism versus Universalism
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: Cultural relativism, at first glance, seems like quite a reasonable argument towards safeguarding different cultural groups. However when we begin to analyse the cultural relativism theory, we come to find that it is not quite as reasonable or even as practical as it seems to be....

Childrens' Rights of Protection and Participation
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: This research paper focuses on the children’s rights and the participation that the children have in their implementation. It is every child’s right to have a say on the things that affects its life. However, some children are either too young or too truant to make solid decisions....

Performance of the United Nations in the Pursuit of Universal Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay seeks to discuss this question with reference to the performance of the United Nations in pursuit of this goal and will explore the origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the limitations and disadvantages of the Universal Periodic Review system, as well as cultural incompatibilities stemming from the declaration...

Discrimination in Academia and Affirmative Action
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: Affirmative Action, as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is distinguishable as the “positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and culture from which they have been historically excluded....

Analysis of Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: Much of the time, individuals become settler’s foreign nations in such of greener fields and openings accessible in various pieces of the world....

Ethical Issues in Surrogacy in Ireland
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this essay, the ethical issues due to surrogacy and maternity rights are explained in detail with a high court case where a “Woman loses maternity benefit claim over surrogacy” which was published in Irish Times on Tuesday, 7 Jul 2015....

An essay on 'Celia, A Slave: History of Sexual Assaults Against Slaves'
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: The trial of Celia, who was a slave, reflects the tragedy in the life of female slaves who went through sexual assault from their owners. In 1855, a Missouri court sentenced Celia, who was a slave to death for killing her master. ...

Trump’s Fight to End Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: The Temporary Protected Status provides a work permit and delay of deportation to foreign citizens from those countries who are in the United States at the time the U.S. government makes the selection....

Effectiveness of the UN Human Trafficking Prevention Protocol
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: As a response to the people trafficking crisis, one critical document, titled the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, was drafted....

Analysis of Peniel E. Joseph's 'Waiting till the Midnight Hour'
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2021
Introduction: The article, ‘Waiting till the Midnight Hour: Re-conceptualizing the Heroic Period of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965’ by Peniel E. Joseph, provides a nuanced Civil Rights narrative by examining different political manifestations of black radicalism in America during the late 1950s and early 1960s...

Community Issues in Secular and Christian Discussions of Abortion
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jul 2021
Introduction: This paper explores issues of the community in discussions of abortion in both secular and Christian frameworks....

Gender and Sexuality Barriers in Canadian Healthcare
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Jul 2021
Introduction: Giving non-binary and gender-neutral identifying students in Vancouver a chance to use gender-neutral pronouns – pronouns that do not make assumptions about a person’s gender. No longer are they stuck having their identities ignored at school: they can be recognized and respected in official records for who they are....

History, Causes and Impact of the Armenian Genocide
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: The Armenian Genocide was a one of the first genocides of the twentieth century. The Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 – 1923 and cost the lives of more than 1.5 million Armenians....

Development of the Three Basic Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: From the above information adduced, it is absolutely clear that, irrespective of your age, gender, race, status etc., you have the right to life, right to liberty, right to property as well as any other human rights...

Comparison of Martin Luther King Jr's Letter and Barack Obama's Speech
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: More recently, movements like #BlackLivesMatter have emerged, urging an end for discrimination and violence against black people. Because of leaders like Obama and Dr. King, America moves closer to becoming a place where racial discrimination is a story of the past....

Overview of the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: The General Assembly also went as far as to approve a resolution, which also calls on Myanmar’s government to take pressing measures to tackle incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in the states of Rakhine, Kachin and Shan...

8 Stages of Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: Genocide as defined by the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is any act committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethical, racial or religious group....

Recognizing the Rights of Transgender People
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: Over the years, the safety of transgender individuals has intensified threatening the well being of that person. Making transgender people more vulnerable to unsafe situations....

Arguments for Abolishing the Death Penalty
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: The argument of whether or not the death penalty should be abolished as early as the 1800s. Many people who fight for abolishing the death penalty argue that the death penalty invades basic human rights...

Legal Positivism and Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Dec 2020
Introduction: 1.0 INTRODUCTION The statement which I have to scrutinise “Is the absolute separation of law and morality proposed by legal positivism an obstacle to the acceptance of the notion of human rights?...

Ethical Considerations on Retribution and Reburial
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Nov 2020
Introduction: This essay aims to compare the view of indigenous people and archaeologists concerning repatriation and reburial of ancient artefacts, which will explore three case studies of indigenous people from Australian, American and European backgrounds....