A look at civil society, norm transmission and accountability for serious international crimes the article examines the spread of human rights norms and transitional justice processes. This is critical in helping understand the important of human rights activism, which protects the lives of citizens, and further enable through educative processes to pass important and critical lessons that help shape the minds of citizens. It provides further an avenue where they are able to eradicate and eliminate conflicting views and engage in a more contractive dialogue that prohibits conflict among citizens.
Global leaders have adopted transitional justice process, which is meant to eradicate and punish those who involve themselves in crimes against humanity.
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With the help of the dialogue and debate that civil societies continue to make, these dialgoues are carried on in the academic platforms of kenya and addressed with the new generation of up and coming kenyans more concious and politically aware of the pitfalls of past regimes and the current lack of adeqate accountabilty which has plagued the political sphere of this country which up until recently, civil society hasnt had the abitlity to be a part …show more content…
This one element has continued to affect the accountability of transitional justice and human rights protection all over the world. There is need to provide and come up with a process that creates universality of human rights norms and protection which will not only help in the eradication of such violations of human rights but will also protect and help create accountability practices of human rights norms and appropriate transitional justice processes.
It is true to argue that women are the once who experience human rights abuses which are an effect of cultural practices that affect the universality of human rights norms. This in particular is because of cultural practices that discriminate women and make women slaves and such like elements and further affects the transitional justice process. Selectivity and ideological agendas affect negatively the process of transitional justice processes in regards to human rights norms.
This paper does a great job of going and analyzing in depth the different groupds during the two months of the violence and the justice and peace groups which arose and the succes and the tactics that were employed by civil society henceforth and is a backbone to helping understand the underlying issues and why such issues are, greatly utilizing the constructivist
Societies that use the adversarial system as their legal structure, define their relationship with the state as “the rule of law”. Rule of law is defined by the United Nations as a “principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the state itself are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated, which are consistent with international human rights principles”. The adversarial system defines the public interest in criminal justice as an interest of crime control and security, where authorities such as prosecutors are trusted as long as they are democratically elected to power. Also comparative criminal justice consists of a “detailed understanding of not [the] just criminal justice processes but also the actors involved in it and the society that forms the backdrop to these processes”. Unlike in the inquisitorial system, the adversarial system was tailored in such a way to ensure that the state will not have too much power making decision in a criminal case, because it could lead to lack of trust in the system.
Ethos It is noted in the end of the article, that the author is an associate professor of politics and chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at University of San Francisco. I would like to note that, even without mentioning Zunes’ titles and experience, the well-organized text with supportive statistics and historical facts has already made his argument
In the article, Democracy and Criminal Justice in Cross-National Perspective: From Crime Control to Due Process, it argues that the criminal justice system has changed from using the crime control method to now using the due process method. In order to understand why this issue is important we must first know what the crime control and due process model are. The crime control model is simply a model that says an individual is responsible for themselves. It also protects the rights of law abiding citizens. The crime control model is set up for punishment.
These human rights 'instruments', as they are called, have fixed how many rights apply to particular groups of human beings such as women or children. They have also come up with new ideas that were not part of the thinking of those who first drafted the Universal Declaration. The link between human rights and other pillars is clearly evident all the way through the UDHR. First, it allows, in the Preamble, that the credit of the unchallengeable rights of all people is the groundwork of freedom, justice and peace across the world. Secondly, it expands the UN Charter’s stated purpose of encouraging growth by giving economic, social and cultural rights the in the same degree of safety that an individual finds for civil and political rights (Marshall
To many, violation of human rights is a serious issue. This shows that for every negative force, there is always someone who recognizes the wrong and seeks to correct
Chavez introduces the article with this message to further convey his belief about the damaging effects that using violent acts has on society. By illustrating violence with effects of “many injuries and perhaps deaths on both sides, or there will be total demoralization of the workers”, Chavez believes that leading with violence will only lead to disaster and tragedy. The effects of non-violent acts lead to peace among the citizens and will make a community more prosperous in the future compared to the struggle that is left after violence.
As we look throughout history, governments have implemented policies and are partially responsible for the denial of human rights to a certain group. These groups include Ukrainians and Rwandans. The denial of human rights in these regions not only affect those in the region but internationally. Both Ukrainians and Rwandans were denied their human rights. Ukraine’s hope and will was in the hands of the dictator Joseph Stalin.
Human rights have been around for as long as we can remember now, but in the recent years they have been really precise. Even with the laws getting stricter, there are many and it is hard to get every single person to do the right thing and be reasonable, in this case to obey and respect human rights. That’s why to this day human rights are not acknowledged to the extent that they should be. While human rights being actualized should be the goal, many countries and people already have disagreements with them. Furthermore, for them to be strict and final for every person would not to be possible any time in the near future as they weren’t in the past.
The Lebanese Civil War lasted 15 years, starting in 1975 and ending in 1990, involving mostly the Lebanese army, the Phalangists and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Still today, there are political complications and tension in Lebanon therefore it has never really recovered from the major war that harmed the country significantly. Most of the conflict was located in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon however there were frequent attacks in various other villages and towns throughout the war. The essay will focus on the causes and the effects of the civil war, varying from political tensions to cultural differences. The years 1975 and 1990 are especially useful for the investigation as they will display the main causes and the main effects that are related to the war.
When a select group of people are treated as less than human, there are consequences for everyone: the victims, the victimizers and the bystanders. The book Night by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, contains many examples of people 's Universal Human Rights being violated in the depths of concentration camps. Those examples show how victims of this are dehumanized little by little every time those rights are violated. Almost all 30 rights were violated throughout the book, but a few were violated on a more frequent basis and they did the most harm. The more frequent rights violated from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were articles five, six and seventeen, and this essay will explain how these human rights dehumanized inhabitants
This course of action similarly enhances tension between idealistic Muslims who continue to stay devoted to their religion, and hence find a means to project that through radicalized courses of actions. The product of conflict is danger to entirety of the group involved, and hence it is best to find sympathy and solidarity between the oppressed and
Nonetheless, if negative states of mind created in every nation amid the conflict are not tended to, these may produce to further conflict later on. In the interim, conflict change goes for a principal change in conduct of people and the relationship between two or additionally disputing groups. This model is a great deal more exemplified in Bush and Folger 's hypothesis of transformative intervention and Lederach 's model of conflict change. To Lederach, he utilizes the term conflict resolution to allude to peace building.
“Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique of International Human Rights- Friends or Foes?” The journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique of International Human Rights- Friends or Foes?” by Oonagh Reitman have the aim to know deeper about the two critiques towards the universal Human Rights by the two major theory, which are the Cultural Relativism and Feminism, how they see the universal Human Rights theory. The Journal address for the workshop discussion matter regarding to the similarities on critique of International human rights that made by the Cultural relativist and the feminist. “ Human Rights is the right that given and held by human simply because they are human, and it does not classified nor held by certain groups or not the subject to variation in culture”(Donnelly 1989: 109-110) From the introduction in the journal, the writer defines how the feminist and the cultural relativist express their idea of Universal human rights. The idea of Universal human rights from Donnelly were being reserve by Relativist, they argue that the human rights itself root from culture and due to the variation of culture, making the human rights not universal.
Aubrey Rose A, Barangot English 27B Title Gender Equality: An Established Human Right Thesis Gender Equality and Stereotypes Inroduction The gender equality has been accepted and acknowledged as human rights’ principles since the adoption of charter of United Nations in 1945. Most of the international agreements such as ‘the Millennium Development Goals (2000)’ and ‘the World Conference on Human Rights (1993) have highlighted and stressed the grave need for nations to take appropriate actions against such discriminatory practices. To give clarity to this research, the researcher uses the following definitions: “Everyone has a fundamental right to live free of violence.
Human Rights What are Human Rights? Human Rights are commonly understood as being those rights which are inherent to the human being. The concept of human rights acknowledges that every single human being is entitled to enjoy his or her human rights without distinction as to race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Human rights are legally guaranteed by human rights law, protecting individuals and groups against actions which interfere with fundamental freedom and human dignity. They are expressed in treaties, customary international law, bodies of principles and other sources of law.