Article 14: The Non-Discrimination Clauses

In his article ‘A Right to Self-Termination?’ David Velleman brings up the topic of the right to die and elaborates his view on the subject. Two broad principles are stated by Velleman and he goes on to reject the first principle and accept the second principle. The first principle is that “a person has the right to make his own life shorter in order to make it better…”the second principle is that there is “a presumption in favor of deferring to a person's judgment on the subject of his own good.”(Velleman,607).These two principles boil down to the statement “...a person has the right to live and die, in particular, by his own convictions about which life would be better for him.”(Velleman,607). Velleman rejects the first principle and accepts the second principle, the rejection of the first principle is on the basis that it sanctions the suicide of a person for a particular reason whether that reason be to avoid harm or to simply obtain benefit(s).

As stated in the United States Declaration of Independence, the writers assert that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This is a phrase which has been quoted many times, yet still remains as profound today as the day when it was penned. America was based on the ideal that each person is entitled to both self-determination and the right to pursue that as the person feels fit. Consequently, this idea has also been addressed by numerous authors, predominantly through narratives pertaining to the lack of said freedoms. One author, Orson Scott Card, writer of “Ender’s Game”, details the effects of depravation of the right

In Walter Mosley 's fictional short story, "Equal Opportunity" (1995), he describes employment discrimination through the character of Socrates Fortlow, an African American ex-convict attempting to find employment. Socrates lives in an abandoned building in Los Angeles neighborhood called Watts. He has been out of “prison eight years, fifty-eight years old, and ready to start life over again,” (Mosley 1).

He indicated that there are many principal logics for human rights and the understanding situation and human rights are continuously deriving as we perceive more about the human condition. Human rights protection is alleged as an international affair and our rights values are euro-centrically influenced, according to the article. Jonathan Wolff’s article advocates for the need of balancing and protecting human rights, especially the second-generation rights as they are equally, if not the most essential to the first-generation

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects any person within their jurisdiction of their due process and equal protection. The Equal Protection Clause under the 14th Amendment requires the states to apply their laws equally to any person within their jurisdiction. The equal protection clause aims to provide equal application of the law. It is also crucial to the protection of civil rights. There should be no discrimination in its application. Also no state can deny any person of their equal protection rights. The laws of a state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions or circumstances. Due process deals with the fair use or enforcement of laws. The Due Process clause protects any person of their

The first case file with EECO by Tanya Conde girl friend of Samuel Varriano Maintenance #3 who was fired from Pitt University .The defendent 's in case Robert Godzik, William Franicola supervisor and Pitt University was dismissed .

Unlike our neighbours down below. We have these special set of rights called Collective Rights that recognise three major groups of Canada: First nations, Metis and Language Minority. Canada also has the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that was signed in 1982. This recognizes individuals and the collective rights in Canada.

We, the People’s Party of Minisink Valley High School believe the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment should be strictly enforced to prevent the unfair enforcement of law due to different racial, religious, ethnic, etc. backgrounds.

This part was also known as the equal right. On section 15, it stated that any discrimination against the race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability would be considered as actions against the Charter of Right and Freedom, section 15 also valid legal process. It guaranteed that the minority group with distinct cultural and ethnic identity will not be discriminated by others, and it promoted their rights to be respected. Even the racism still exists but section 15 minimized this principle. But the most severe issue between the minority and majority group would be the Quebec issue. Through the history, Quebec Francophone and the rest Anglophones came up several agreements on language education and culture but it never really fixes this problem. French speakers and English speakers discriminate each other and they refuse to provide education and services. Possible solution was placed in the section 16-23. In section 16-22 established the bilingual system and the position of the French language, it guaranteed French would be available in all government services and parliament. The bill in French and English versions is equally authoritative.these section provide a path to ameliorate the relationship; section 23 provided the the language education right, subsection (A) item one stated: “whose first language learned and still

The critical legal theory focuses on overturning and challenging accepted standards and norms. It also deals with how legal decisions that are based on political and cultural values are viewed and how they change over time. This theory argues that culture plays a significant role in law and is an important aspect when it comes to the making of laws. Different cultures have different standards and beliefs among their society and therefore different laws are established within them. Critical legal studies seeks to essentially adjust jurisprudence to expose that it is not a reasoned and logical system of wisdom instead it is an ideology that creates an unfair government and political system. Looking at this case from a critical legal theory perspective

People are continuously improving by learning from their past experiences. Such, that many of the laws across the world and articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are either inspired or completely based on previous laws and rights. Hammurabi’s Code is no exception. Although the basis and theme of the code was based on the idea of “An eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth.”, these pre-Biblical laws helped shape Babylonian life and still have a large influence on modern rights and laws.

In 1799 and 1800, the British Parliament passed laws called Combination Acts aimed at prohibiting the formation of unions

The world’s second biggest country has received a similar second ranking in terms of being ranked the greatest country in the world. The country, of course, is Canada. Canada, for a long time, has been considered one of the best countries in the world to live in as it welcomes immigrants, has a rich diverse culture for every nationality, free medical expenses, and of course , the Niagara Falls. A quote from an article from the Toronto Star said, “….. [Canada] draws some of its national identity from its expansive wilderness, has pronounced a long list of accomplished writers and artists, and is a high-tech industrial society with a high standard of living.” Canada also showed the world that they were serious in their attempts to rescue refugees fleeing

The section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 says that indirect discrimination can be found where a provision, criterion or practice is equally applicable to a group of employees and job candidates however it will influence on people who share a particular protected characteristic at a specific disadvantage when they are compared to others in the same group and it is hard for employers to justify it is discrimination. However, indirect discrimination can also be justified in some circumstances. For example, in Panesar v Nestle’ [1979] IRLR 64, the Court of Appeal said that a principle in the working environment, which did not allow beards and long hair and made Sikhs were excluded, is justified due to hygiene reasons. Even though some group of people were indirectly discriminated, it could be justifiable because it did not prove that the discrimination resulted less favourable treatment on purpose. Another example can be found in Chiu v British Aerospace plc and others [1982] IRLR 56, where Chiu had suffered racial discrimination because of language problems and he insisted that he was asked to do work and complete reports without receiving any help unlike other

The court stated that in order to establish ‘unfairness’, the court must assess the degree to which the complainant’s human dignity has been impaired, and the degree to which the complainant’s rights and interests have been affected (Harsken). The test of unfairness focuses on ‘the impact of the discrimination on the complainant and others in his or her situation.’ (Harksen). This test requires a contextual analysis of the individual’s position in society, the nature of the provision and the purpose sought to be achieved by