Category: Individual Rights

People should keep your friends close and your enemies closer because the people you think are your friends can stab you in the back. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys crash-landed on a deserted island where they formed rules and a system of government. Without the supervision of adults,…

The human rights (HR) discourse is one bound up with questions of law, justice, and morality, and state. What we know today as human rights is made up of different philosophical ideas, geography and historical events. Right have moved from natural law, the monotony of the church, to that enjoyed by the head of the…

In 246 B.C., ten years after the Chou dynasty had been defeated by the Chin armies, a new king named Chin Shih Huang-ti came to the throne as the new emperor of China. Under his ruling, Chin Shih Huang-ti gave China an enduring form of government that followed the practices of Legalism. The philosophy that…

Health care in the early days of our country was very limited. Not many doctors came to America being they were British and against us. The first hospital was built in New Orleans named The Royal Hospital which was far too expensive, so another was built The Charity Hospital. (Understanding the U.S.) There have been…

Introduction: The Interplay of Individual Rights and Public Health Throughout the years, various epidemics, pandemics and diseases have affected the world and when they occur, citizens demand and expect the government to eradicate the disease, prevent and minimise its spread. This is where public health thrives, it may be defined as the protection of individuals…

In this paper I talk about the history of human rights as a background. But mainly I focused on the right of liberty and security, which protects us against arbitrary unlawful deprivation of liberty. I chose this topic because in my thoughts it is interesting. What Are Human Rights? Human rights are the basic rights…

Do you know how bad police brutality has been in the past years? Police brutality is the excessive use of force used by police. Police brutality affects not only the victims but also our communities as they can feel fear and be targeted by police officers. Most of the people who have been killed by…