Counterterrorism and its Affronts to Human Rights Since the 21st century, there has been a sharp rise in terrorism and counterterrorism measures that are an insult to both international and domestic human rights. This essay will attempt to define the intersection of counterterrorism and human rights and why it is important to either adapt existingContinue reading “Counterterrorism and its Affronts to Human Rights”
Category Archives: Human Rights
Illegal but Lawful: The Responsibility to Protect
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is an illegal but legitimate conception that faces numerous challenges to becoming international law and a customary norm. The past misuse of R2P by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) creates challenges to R2P that might be insurmountable; clarion calls of R2P being an arm of colonialism, and a tacticContinue reading “Illegal but Lawful: The Responsibility to Protect”
Challenges in Accountability: Regional Human Rights Commissions
Regional human rights commissions are challenged in holding individuals accountable for human rights violations but have the potential to be transformative to international law. Accountability is not merely trying and punishing the person; rather accountability is a complicated process that presents the main challenges facing a regional human rights commission. These paramount problems are localContinue reading “Challenges in Accountability: Regional Human Rights Commissions”
Answer to the 1947 American Anthropological Association’s Statement on Human Rights
The individual realizes his/her personality through the constant interaction between his/her culture and his/her perceived singularity within that culture as the viewer. I bet humans act like particles in quantum physics more than we want to believe; when viewed the particle changes. What is the society when not viewed? As well and conversely, when thatContinue reading “Answer to the 1947 American Anthropological Association’s Statement on Human Rights”