Background of watchdog Watchdog is mostly non-profit body who keeps its eye on the activities of a specific entity in community mostly on the government and its related offices in order to protect and warn the society when something wrong happens or when the democracy is at risk. Their size and mandate defer from each other, watchdog can be a single individual or a group of people, they can monitor one issue or several and their concerned issues can be local or global depending on the scope, goals, resources, opponents, history and philosophy of the watchdogs. Their main job is to do protection and monitor however, some of them do advocacy for improvement of conditions of a particular population or advancement of a good cause. There are …show more content…
The importance of Watchdog Generally when the society is being threatened by some powerful people, when the democracy comes under attack, when the government institutions are not trustworthy anymore and when the wrong actions are going uncontested, Watchdog is the best choice for defending all of the mentioned injustices. But particularly watchdog organizations do exist because of: 1- Self …show more content…
According to Khawaja Nazimuddin, the 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan religion shall not be separated form state. He stated: "I do not agree that religion is a private affair of the individual nor do I agree that in an Islamic state every citizen has identical rights, no matter what his caste, creed or faith be.” Minorities face religious discrimination although the constitution of Pakistan has respected their rights. Other than this, domestic violence is a substantial problem in Pakistan. According to a study by Human Right Watch 70-90 percent of women in Pakistan have experienced abuse. Approximately, 5000 women have been killed in Pakistan because of domestic violence and thousands have been
With this second principal the government oversees the police activities and intervenes whenever any guarantees given by the constitution of the United States have been violated by any form of local, state, and federal law enforcement. And also keeps a watchful eye on any one of these agencies who are doing so.
The decree passed by president in year 2009 related to women's right were opposed by some of the conservative members of Parliament. Afghanistan has a cultural society where from the past and still up to this time majority of people abuse women and are opposed to the liberty of women in country. Still there are families who are ashamed of having a girl still there are families where a wife is considered to be as a slave, and still there are families who behave with a Mother as an enemy since she was not able to born a boy rather than a girl. The decree passed by President Hamid Karzai was due to the high percentage of violation against women in the country, where more than 3000 violence cases were record against women. This decree was based on the article 22 of Afghanistan constitution, which states that “The citizens of Afghanistan, men and women, have equal rights and duties before the law" (Afghanistan, 2004). Based on this article of constitution we can find out that men and women are equal before law and this law insures all the liberty given to a man will be same for a woman. Unfortunately, according to biannual report given by Human right commission "violence against women" there are four different type of violence practiced against women in different parts of country. The main reason behind the violence taking place against women are related to Economical condition of a family, literacy level of a family, cultural background of the family as well as usage of drug has caused several violation act by husband and their family members against a woman. In addition, the result of violence is almost same in every place of country (beating, Sexual abuse, forced marriages, denial access to education, Emotional and Psychological Abuse and murder). In this paper I will focus on the policies taken place by the government of Afghanistan and their failure; as well, I will focus on establishing some policies in order to limit or to band all the abuses happening against women in the country.
When working practitioners must not only protect the children they work with when in the school setting and off site, but also themselves. Whether in school or off-site the school safeguarding policy should be referred to, to give guidance and adhered to at all times.
powerful institution in the society, the government attempts to draw away the attention of the public towards
‘Watch or guard kept over a person, etc., esp. over a suspected person, a prisoner, or the like; often, spying’-(OED, online dictionary)
What to do? The issue of abused and homeless women is one that has recently been brought to the forefront of social issues in Pakistan. Abuse, most often begins after marriage. According to local traditions, once a girl’s baraat (wedding procession) enters the husband’s house, only her janaza (funeral pyre) should leave. Loyalty and devotion to the husband and his family come above every thing else. When family support is pulled away, the girl is then at the mercy of her husband. This total control of the girl’s life sometimes leads to her death. Often times it leads to abuse. The girl cannot return to her father’s house for fear of dishonoring him and so continues to suffer. In some cases she may chose to run away therefore igniting her husband’s anger that then is left with no choice put to pursue and kill her to redeem his honor.
In the 1970’s, Ralph Nard coined the term whistleblower referring to when a referee blows a whistle to indicate an illegal or foul play. Oxford dictionaries define whistleblower as “a person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity.” This can be in either the government or corporations. The debate on whistleblowers continues to be pertinent in light of recent scandals. Many believe in the value of transparency, but disagree about the correct way to achieve it. This is why we created laws, such as the Whistleblower Act and the Espionage Act. The Whistleblower Act was put in place in order to protect “[A]ny disclosure of information” that a covered employee “reasonably believes” evidences “a violation of any law, rule, or ...
Surveillance is the monitoring of the behaviour, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing or protecting them. The right of human beings basically entails freedom to basic things of life, part of which includes freedom to life, speech, vote and movement, all which are known as fundamental human rights. But with the advents of technology and the growth in the society, these have led to the development of satellite cables, which are used to monitor events at certain places with or without the knowledge of the residual/residents. Thus, the use of satellite cables has made the world a global village.
Morality and ethnics are two terms that closely resemble one another. Morality and ethnic both have to do with the concept of what is considered as right and wrong. However, there is a distinct different between the two. Morality is the principle that concerns itself with what is right and what is wrong based on an individual’s personal opinion and thoughts. Ethnics are a set of rules that are considered as “right” and are set out by an external source. Two types of philosophical ethnics are deontology and utilitarianism. Utilitarianism focuses on maximizing happiness while deontology focuses on duty and rationality. If one was given the option to save the life of one person or save the life of five, how would one respond? Those who believe in utilitarianism have a different mindset as to how to solve this crisis. However, like any theory that exists, there are always strength and weaknesses to those theories.
According to (Farney and Valente, 35-49), domestic violence is a major concern in the society, considering the fact that it affects the community in a detrimental way. Basically, domestic violence involves negative acts carried out on a person, which often tend to undermine and control the person. Such acts mostly involve physical violence apart from emotional abuse, with intent of manipulating one of the parties in relationships. From this, definitely, domestic violence is an issue that affects the health as well as social-economic state of individuals, and on top of all, it is a human rights issue. Reason being, there is downplay of human rights such as the right to equality coupled with security and freedom among many other rights through domestic violence.
Social Workers are different people who help certain children to find better homes for them. In addition, they help trouble teens with different things but I believe before they get the police involve they check the home surroundings first and talk to the parents? The social worker knows that the best interest is for the child and not the parents. If the child feels threatens with his/her life the social worker needs to look at the living conditions that the child live in ,talk to the parents and if the parents doesn’t solve the problem then the social workers are liable to get the police involved and take the child to Child Protective Services. From then the social worker needs to find good adoptive parents with good a good background, no trouble, and a good living environment for the child.
Kapadia, M., Saleem, S., & Karim, M. S. (2010). The hidden figure: sexual intimate partner violence among Pakistani women. European Journal Of Public Health, 20(2), 164-168. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp110
" What is monitoring? It is to observe/check the progress of something over a period of time. The first amendment guarantees freedom of expression or the right to say what we want without restriction. This means that we can post anything we want online. It does not guarantee that we will be safe from the repercussions that follow. The U.S. government has the right to MONITOR it. That does not mean that they have the right to change it or stop it from going out. If it is in the interest of international or national or state or local safety they have the ability to stop or change it from happening. The U.S. government has the duty and/or right to monitor its citizens because if it doesn't then the U.S. will fall apart or something potentially very bad could happen and it would be extremely hard to stop before it was too late.
A similar discrimination can be seen in other religions as well. In Pakistani society the biggest discrimination can be seen in the form of the treatment of religious minorities. In some households people tend not to eat food sent from a Christian or a Hindu family and in some extreme cases not even from a Shia family.
“Self-awareness is a psychological state in which people are aware of their traits, feelings and behaviour. Alternatively, it can be defined as the realisation of oneself as an individual entity.” (Crisp & Turner, 2010). In other words, self awareness is recognising one’s personality which includes strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs and emotions.