Essay On Human Rights Violations In Nigeria

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform spit nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest oil spill in history. The 1989 oil spill surpassed Exxon Valdez's oil spill in 1989 as the largest oil spill ever seen in US-controlled waters and the Ixtoc I oil spill of 1979 as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater offshore rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 riggers and injuring 17 others. The fire burned for 36 hours and the Macondo Prospect delivered about 4.9 million barrels of oil before being closed and sealed on 15 July almost three months later. The oil spill in the

In recent years in can be noted that civil disobedience is prominent in American culture. This can be portrayed in the recent events of the Keystone Pipeline activists. Many activists have blamed the government for their problems just as Thoreau did in his essay “Civil Disobedience”. There can be a parallel drawn between these two topics even though they have decades between them. In these times it is still logical to believe that civil disobedience is the right course of action. Activists, wanting to make a change, have called for government reconsideration, health and safety issues, and discrimination on Native Americans.

Human rights are rights that are entitled to every individual regardless of nationality and citizenship as it is inherent, inalienable, and universal. The presence of basic human rights are vital in upholding a civilized society. The idea of having individual rights and freedom is not a new concept in Britain, in fact it has very deep roots. History shows landmark advancements such as Magna Carta 1215, Habeas Corpus Act 1679, and Bill of Rights and Claim of Rights 1689 all had important roles in protecting citizen’s rights.

Imagine all your human right’s strip away from you within a second. Throughout history governments have denied human right to a certain group of people by adopting new polices and/or violence. A government using violence against it people to get them to agree or even do what they want is still seen today. Throughout history countries like Cambodia and Rwanda are places where the government look away their people’s human rights.

Environmental America urges citizens to reach out to the Obama Administration in saying “save our coast, no offshore drilling”. Meanwhile, smaller actions can be preformed, by holding companies personally responsible for clean up cost, which would entice them to do everything in their power to prevent future spills. Another option would be follow Federal Commissions recommendation, and undertake full environmental protection reviews at all offshore drilling locations. A lot can be accomplished to stop further risk of harming wildlife as a result of drilling. Likewise, there is a series of morally persistent reasons on why it is urgent to the health of our planet and all species that live on it. The plethora of evidence on negative effects is continuously

Since the beginning, humans have been held to certain standards regarding morality our rights as humans. History shows us leaders and rulers who, in their reign of power, have misused their power and attacked human’s rights to agency and liberty. By looking at all the wars, violence, criminals, and acts of immorality that humans have accomplished, many assume that humans are not good at fighting for the rights of others. However, in every war, and every act of violence, there is an opposing force. There will always be someone fighting for the good of others, whether it be one person or a whole army, which comes to show that humans are essentially good at fighting for the rights of others.

Despite Donald Trump being elected for president this year, one of his negative intentions was to reopen the project in North Dakota. Unfortunately, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has been granted to complete Dakota Access Pipeline despite the protest of environmentalist and Native Americans. The ideology of North Dakota Access Pipeline is it would become an “economic boon”, and would employ of thousands of jobs. The pipeline shall stretch 1,172 miles through four states such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and southern Illinois. Too keep in mind, 470,000 barrels of crude oil would be moved within one day. The problem of North Dakota Access Pipeline is that the digging of the pipeline under Lake Oahe would affect people who drink from the water. In addition, the North Dakota Access Pipeline was built on scared land. This is a violation of Native Americans culture. There is no respect for Native Americans as oppressors just want to profit from their land. Many

Canada is well known across the world for handling its national challenges well, yet has not been obeying the human rights. The human rights were made so everyone was equal and no one had higher power. According to Canada.ca, Canada is a founding member of the United Nation, (UN) and is a party to seven principal United Nations human rights conventions and covenants. Principal United Nations human rights conventions and covenants are treaties, and covenants are agreements, while parties are A group of voters organized for the purpose of influencing governmental policy. The human rights also required an agreement to the 30 rules which Canada agreed

I read an article called Nigeria Struggles Against Human Trafficking written by The Associated Press on October 24, 2015. In the article talks about a girl name Omo. After she graduated from college her mother introduces to her to this agent that promised a sales job in Russia. She decides to meet with agent for a better future and to help support her family.

B.Human rights violations are evident in the Dominican Republic of Congo, which stems from a history of poverty; our only hope is that organizations such as Pact continue to ensure that the materials mined in Congo are able to be traced and follow international laws.

Also, it needs to ensure that the corruption does not delay the actual implementation of the pipeline project in any way. If that happens, there are fluctuation risks involved as well.

Every day, an enormous amount of human beings has to live, having their basic human rights violated, their freedom challenged and their safety threatened. What is worse, distressingly often the true culprits behind these violations are the very same governments that are obliged to protect them and allow them to live with dignity. The voices of those daring to criticize them are silenced – and, appallingly so, these governments and the states they represent are so far beyond shame as to accuse those calling them out of fabricating lies and interfering with their sovereignty. This is the reality that raises the need for concrete discourse at the UN. However controversially, this essay intends to prove that the UN human rights debate on country-specific

A transnational corporation is a very powerful actor with a significant foreign direct investment and physical operations in two or more countries. While these corporations have always existed in the world economy, they have become even larger over the past few decades, leaving many to wonder if they are gaining too much power. As with any powerful entity, people have begun to ponder whether these corporations are villains or heroes in the world economy. For some like consumers, companies, and host-country/world economies, the global corporations are heroes. While for others, like workers in poor countries, the environment, and local businesses, they are villains.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s coming-of-age novel Purple Hibiscus narrates the story of Kambili, a girl in Nigeria, who deals with religious hypocrisy and abuse of her father, a product of the British colonization. She and her brother, Jaja, visit their aunt and receive a different perspective on their family’s lives. This novel takes place in the Igbo region of Nigeria, after the Nigerian Civil War that ended in 1970 and colonialism of the 1900’s. In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie conveys her views of the Nigerian Civil War to the reader by using the setting, specific events reciprocated in history, and contrasting characters within the novel.

In this article, Eric Poser has elaborated several reasons which made human rights a failure in international legal regime. The most highlighted issues are hypocrite policies of US and EU which has directly questioned credibility and integrity of their law and justice. The second reason is role played by Russia and China, the two major economic powers who in order to sustain their power, are involved in human rights violations. The third most important reason is standardized model of Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is ideal but not practical in various countries. These three major factors of human rights failure are further analyzed below.