best options of ensuring secure society. A good example is Prohibition, which was an effort to promote morality through law by prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. As drinking alcoholic beverages increased the cases of criminal activities, family dysfunction and immoral conducts, there was a movement of activists against the consumption of alcoholic drinks. Some people argued that Prohibition could not stop people from drinking anyway and this is partially
places more prohibitions on them. I agree with Lao-Tzu in this statement. People would not automatically become righteous simply because the government has forbidden things that are deemed immoral or socially unacceptable. The prohibitions may just hide the problems and may not necessarily solve much. The attention that the prohibition has brought towards the issue may cause people to purposely seek out loopholes or other ways to exploit these laws. This statement still has political importance throughout
African wildlife in a critical situation. Much debate has arisen on whether this poaching issue should be tackled through prohibition,
a moral idea, quickly became a huge deal in politics. Soon laws were being conceived that would keep people from drinking. But the liquor business was a huge part of the economy, and many people still opposed prohibition. By 1919, 33 states had already enacted their own form of prohibition. And that same year, the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, banning
govern the relationship between an individual and the State. Nevertheless, before the creation of the United Nations, individuals and their rights were not a major concern of international law. The protection of Human Rights has become of great importance in the aftermath of the catastrophe of the world wars and the Holocaust. The creation of the United Nations in 1945 under the United Nations Charter has led to more consideration for human rights but this organization has not been created for the
Executive Summary: Taboo is a strong social prohibition in contradiction of words, objects, actions, or discussions anything that is taken improper is considered undesirable and offensive by a group, culture, society, or community. Taboo is based on the belief that the action a person is going to perform is too sacred but at the same time it is too violent to take the same step by any other ordinary person of the society. Taboo is also performed under the threat of supernatural punishment in most
art. 9) prohibition of genocide (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, art 1) prohibition of war crimes (Geneva Convention IV, arts. 146, 149) prohibition of slavery (ICCPR, art. 8; ECHR, 64, art. 4; ACHR, art. 6.) prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, language, religion, or social origin; (ICCPR, art. 4. ICCPR, art. 16; ACHR, art. 3) prohibition of imprisonment for civil debt (ICCPR, art. 11) prohibition of crimes against
discrimination refers to the practice whereby one sex is given preferential treatment over the others (David Jary & July Jary)2. The practice of giving social importance to the biological differences between men and women is there everywhere. In some societies, these differences are very much pronounced while in others, they are given less importance. In the Indian society also, gender play a very important role from time immemorial. The gradual progress of a human from womb to tomb is influenced greatly
clean drinking water and hygiene which further includes the child’s right to birth registration(as provided in Article 7 of the CRC) also plays a pivotal role in the fulfilment of many other rights, including the right to health. To understand the importance of child health, we first contextualized some of the important Articles and Schemes in some of the selected States that are related to children in terms of their
Child Labour- India’s biggest Challenge Introduction India is a diverse country. This sentence aptly describes our country, literally. It’s not just the religion, caste, race, languages; socio-economic status the diversity is on. It also includes the various opportunities that are available and a vast difference in who avails them. When education is the major involvement for children, child labour seems to be taking over it. Child labour is an age old issue in our country. The ones, who cannot afford