hand she is at the peak of ladder of success‚ on the other hand she is mutely suffering the violence afflicted on her by her own family members. As compared with past women in modern times have achieved a lot but in reality they have to still travel a long way. Their path is full of roadblocks. The women have left the secured domain of their home and are now in the battlefield of life‚ fully armored with their talent. They had proven themselves. But in India they are yet to get their dues. The sex
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------------------------------------------------- Children’s rights Children’s rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to the young‚ including their right to association with both biological parents‚ human identity as well as the basic needs for food‚ universal state-paid education‚ health care and criminal laws appropriate for the age and development of the child. Interpretations of children’s rights range from allowing children the capacity
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Relativism and Absolution In order to promote harmony Morality dictates our actions‚ beliefs and behaviours it separates what we commonly call the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. But we should not have it confused it with the law’s of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ because they are not one and the same thing.To quote the “Random House Websters College Dictionary”: Absolutism is any theroy holding that values‚ principels‚ ect.‚ are absolute and not relative‚ dependant‚ or changeable. In The Meanings of
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Human rights in Afghanistan The situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan is a topic of some controversy and conflict. While the Taliban were well known for numerous human rights abuses‚ several human rights violations continue to take place in the post-Taliban government era.[citation needed] Post Taliban The Bonn Agreement of 2001 established the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) as a national human rights institution to protect and promote human rights and to investigate human
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Is The Internet a Human Right? A Review and Assessment of Human Rights and the Internet. It may seem blasé‚ or more probably naive‚ in this post dot-com-bust world to still hold out that “information is power” and‚ moreover‚ that the Internet is fundamentally different than any previous information technology. Perhaps I am guilty of such sentimentalities‚ but allow me at least for the sake of argument to hold on to a small hope that the Internet really is something new. It would then be true that
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Introduction: Human rights are freedoms established by custom or international agreement that impose standards of conduct on all nations. Human rights are distinct from civil liberties‚ which are freedoms established by the law of a particular state and applied by that state in its own jurisdiction. Human rights are moral principles that set out certain standards of human behavior‚ and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law. They are "commonly understood as
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Since the dawn of time‚ humans have pretentiously stomped through Earth lacerating trees and slaughtering animals without even one ephemeral compunction. Is this destruction not commensurate with murdering a human? Society has decided that it is not; however‚ we’ve also agreed we have an obligation to conserve the plants and animals--who are also arguably sentient--of the Earth. Why then should the law protect humans from senseless killing but not equally-sentient beings? If the two are not as diametric
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Relativism Relativism is the philosophical position that all points of view are equally valid and that all truth is relative to the individual. Under the umbrella of relativism‚ there are many different groups‚ like cognitive‚ moral‚ and situational relativism. In moral/ethical relativism it amounts to saying that all moralities are equally good. In cognitive relativism it implies that all beliefs‚ or belief systems‚ are equally true. This essay will refute relativism‚ and its basic premise.
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Concept of ethical relativism Ethical relativism is the theory that there are no universalized moral standards to apply to all people all the time. The relativity of ethics refers to the ethics may be different in different societies. The same situation and behavior may be morally acceptable in one society but morally unacceptable in another. However‚ this theory is rejected by most ethicists. First of all‚ some claim that while the moral practices of societies may differ‚ the fundamental moral
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Two early American documents‚ the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence have‚ over the past 200 years‚ influenced a great number of democratic ideas and institutions. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights share many obvious similarities to both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was written by the Marquis de Lafayette‚ approved by the National Assembly of
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