Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a global non-governmental organisation that works in a spirited movement to sustain and uphold human dignity. We aim to push the cause of human rights for all mankind. Our main headquarters are in New York, with additional offices in major cities globally. Our experienced staff members are skillful in many aspects, one of it being accurate when researching of human rights abuse. Our senior management team mainly consists of our Executive Director, Kenneth Roth, and our two Deputy Executive Directors, Michele Alexander and Carroll Bogert.
HRW was founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, to support and give aid to civilians during the Soviet war. Following that, we have worked unremittingly in order to protect the basic
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We are proud to reveal that we have stopped rape as a weapon of war in Congo. During the period of Congo’s vicious conflict, thousands of females were victimized for rape and sexual abuse. It was estimated by the United Nations that 200,000 women and girls were victims of those atrocious crimes. There has been a constant increase of these inhuman acts on Congolian females due to of the follow suit of government soldiers and militants committing such acts. To curb the rising alarming issue, HRW held a press conference and publicly announced the strong condemnation of such inhuman acts by belligerents. Following that, the military took a zero-tolerance policy for sexual violence. After years of following this issue, we have observed considerable developments in Congo and changes for a safer …show more content…
As the internet is such a quick sea of information, it is very easy to obtain information. Our aim is also to garner more support from the youth of Singapore with our tie-up with SYA. We strongly believe that through the organisation of campaigns, events as well as through the usage of social media - we can get more youths to get themselves involved in our cause, step up and make a difference.
With greater knowledge of the happenings worldwide, they would be more inclined to want to a make a difference in lives of the people who are not as fortunate or lucky as them. Youths are full of energy and passion—it would be great if they could come together and spread kindness and fairness globally. Getting the youths to be actively involved in HRW would be a great step towards making HRW’s efforts more globalised and
The objective of this essay is to appraise at the HRA 1998, in terms of its enactment, application, practicability, and commitment to its principles. Furthermore, one will critically analyse the importance of the aforementioned act from a social worker’s perspective. One believes that the social workers must be familiar with the British law system and The Human Rights Act of 1998 and its capability of upholding and safeguarding the human rights. Furthermore, the social workers must know how to apply the aforementioned act as a tool for the betterment of their practice and the service users whom they represent.
This would involve the three advocates mentioned previously as resource persons, and by the time of the report’s release in 1996, the awareness which had been raised paved the way for several advancements to their cause. One change was how the U.S. Department of Justice would join LaBelle in citing sexual violations by the Michigan Department of Corrections that would make use of the HRW report that had been based on the concept of human rights. Another measure was with the processes of the Department of Corrections being subjected to greater review by Congress in Washington, D.C. By 1998, the trio of advocates had once again become involved in the creation of another report with United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Radhika Coomaraswamy. Prisons in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and New York were audited by Coomaraswamy, with the report being released in early 1999 in the U.N. Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Another international human rights group which is based in London called Amnesty International decided to join this movement for women inmates by highlighting the issue in their annual campaign in 1998 that yielded its own three
Teen activists are inspiring and helpful. They are the ones who are determined to make a difference in the world. They are the ones who never give up on their dreams and hopes. Through their thoughts, sacrifice, determination, and their inspiring heart, they make the world happy, so everyone can live equally. Three teen activists, Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Iqbal Masih, use their personalities and inspiration so that they can stop unfair education, pollution, and child labor. They are willing to sacrifice to help the world and change history.
The acts of violence that were performed by rebels in Africa were horrific. Adults and children were murdered, mutilated, tortured, and raped. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone performed despicable acts of cutting off a people's body parts with machetes to instill fear in the community. If you were working in the diamond mines and not performing up to the standards of the rebels you would lose a body part as punishment. Rebels would continue to do this from one village to another in order “to take control of the mines in the area” (Hoyt). It is estimated that in Sierra Leone that over 20,000 people suffered mutilation. The acts that the rebels performed to these innocent victims was clearly a violation to their human rights. The RUF collected 125 million a year to fund their war on the government and the people of Sierra Leone.
In chapter 8 of Global Issues, Local Arguments, June Johnson exposes the concept that women are being used as a tactic and war as well as being sexually abused. In “Defending Human Rights: Human Trafficking, Forced Child Labor, and Rape as a Weapon of War, (384-439)”developing countries women are being treated unfairly as well having little say in the government leading to a delay in fixing the issue. Johnson also includes “Ten Radical Acts for Congo the New Year (434-41).” These issues were caused by the end of slavery and thus leading to people needing a new source of workers. The effects of the Ill treatment consist of children and women dying. Many stake holders to fixing the problem is to involve the women in the government. Unless stakeholders
Although teenage girls can be impacted nagatively, it also makes them aware of the issues that face women in our world today and empowers them to make a change.
“The sweetly sickening odor of decomposing bodies hung over many parts of Rwanda in July 1994: . . . at Nyarubuye in eastern Rwanda, where the cadaver of a little girl, otherwise intact, had been flattened by passing vehicles to the thinness of cardboard in front of the church steps,” (Deforges 6). The normalcy of horrible images like this one had cast a depressing gloom over Rwanda during the genocide, a time when an extreme divide caused mass killings of Tutsi by the Hutu. Many tactics such as physical assault or hate propaganda are well known and often used during times of war. Sexual assault and rape, however, during times of war is an unspoken secret – it is well known that rape occurs within combat zones and occupied territories, but people tend to ignore, or even worse, not speak of the act. There have been recorded cases of rape and sexual assault in almost every war in human history. Genocidal rape was used as a gendered war tactic in the Rwandan genocide in order to accomplish the Hutu goal of elimination of the Tutsi people in whole, or part.
As discussed in the introduction, IFSW is one of the biggest organizations that deal with the job title of a Social Worker. IFSW stands for The International Federation of Social Workers. IFSW likes to focus on topics such as human rights and social justice. In their statement, they also promise great Social Workers who are trained professionally and in conjunction with helping as many communities and people around the world, they also pair up with about 90 other organizations including United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This organization shares a very similar mission statement with that of Compassion International. Compassion International’s statement states four different commitments. First, being their commitment to Christ. Second, being their commitment to Children. Third, being their commitment to the Church. Finally, the fou...
...ldwide’s overall approach of creating opportunities for youth worldwide. For example, have Hilton Worldwide and IYF thoroughly analyzed how this program to improve youth well-being can possibly be seriously disfavored by the governing authorities of those countries in which these programs will be taking place? Or if the adolescent from a third-world country whom they are training has obligatory family responsibilities to uphold that do not call for involvement in the initiative? Although it seems unlikely, questions and issues like these are inevitable and will eventually surface. The key to success here for Hilton Worldwide and IYF to achieve maximum impact is simply to continue pursuing their commitment of reaching out to global youth with combined efforts and to help these young beings realize their fullest potential as engaged and productive citizens of society.
Michael Boylan argues in Natural Human Rights that everyone has a moral right to the basic goods of agency and others in the society have a duty to provide those goods to all. He bases this conclusion upon the controversial premises: (a) what people value they wish to protect, and (b) all people must agree, upon pain of logical contradiction, that what is natural and desirable to them individually is natural and desirable to everyone collectively and individually. From this, there will be attention placed by those opposite of Boylan who will object. This essay will examine the ability of the objections to uphold against these premises and show how the objections to be flawed, thus supporting the conclusion. Objectors to Key Premises (a)
Not only do we need to understand the ‘issue’ or ‘societal problem’ that many people face and are impacted by every day, but we need to meet and work alongside those whose daily realities are shaped by injustices, while not creating any divides or barriers in the process. Everyday people are affected by the issues that organizations fight for or against, and once we realize how people-centered things like advocacy, outreach and service are, I believe young people will realize their call to action and their potent...
One of the recent work was by Amnesty International Australia which has been working to stop violence against women of Afghanistan for two year until April, 2015(Amnesty International Australia, 2016).Women and girls of Afghanistan were facing abuses and violence like beatings, rape, and being killed for false accusations like Farkhunda Malikzada, a 27 year old Afghan woman (CMI, 2016). The fight to stop violence against women led to the new Afghan government and the Australian Government’s foreign policy to prioritize the safety and advancement of women that is the issue was high on the list of their priorities. Another recent work by Amnesty was in 2009, were it wanted to protect the “Palestinian civilians” who were used by “Israeli’s Soldiers” as” human shields” in the “Israeli’s January offensive in Gaza called Operation Cast Lead “(Wikipedia, 2016).The third recent work has been in China. It has been trying to protect the human rights defenders in China who are arrested, harassed, house arrest, and imprisonment when they demonstrate against abuses and violence of human
The war was worsened by the wealthy minerals in the ground and the influence of the mineral was strengthened by the fear and displacement the war caused. The intertwining of these two destructive forces is seen in the story Salima is told by a man who bought her. In this he tells of a man who stuffed”...the coltan into his mouth to keep the soldiers from stealing his hard work, and they split his belly open with a machete”(31). Not only does this story show the harsh conditions the men are exposed to in war, but also it further demonstrates the hold coltan has on the minds of those who live in the Congo. The want for coltan leads to the destruction of the community and individual identities of those involved as it perpetuates a cycle of war that damages men, induces violence against women, and ultimately creates a cycle of lost identity.
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One change that could be made is the development of youth centers and programs within each community. These youth center would seek to help local children discover their goals and aspirations while preparing them to cope with the outside world. Also, the development of youth centre would keep the children and teenagers off the streets, therefore keeping them out of trouble. These centers would implement programs which provide assistance in each child’s problem area. In addition, programs could also provide the child with international exposure. This would include educational and fun trips around the world to countries like China whose background is rich with history and culture. This could eventually lead to new ideas and opportunities for the children. The youth group could also organize sports for children such as little Baseball or football. This helps to keep the children active and in shap...