...Amnesty International Date of Establishment: July 1961 in London, U.K. Founder: Peter Benneson Amnesty International was founded in 1961 to protect human rights internationally. Amnesty international also stands up for victims of oppressive regimes and other abuses. The official objective of the organisation: “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.” Amnesty international is currently active throughout the world, with over 3 million members in 150 countries worldwide. The organisation is a worldwide watchdog regarding human rights/abuses. . As Christian men and women it is very important that we support the work that Amnesty international is doing globally. Many of the organisations principles echo the message that we learnt from Jesus Christ. For example, Jesus told us that we must be defenders of the weak and the helpless. Similarly, Amnesty International stands up for individuals who cannot defend themselves or their families. By supporting this noble foundation we can make life better for the millions around the world suffering from oppression. It is very easy for one to become a member of Amnesty International. All you have to do is go to their official website (there is one for many different languages) and select how much money you plan to donate (donations range from $21-$100; to be paid once a month). Once this section is done...
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...Tara Mouton Political Science 4042 Mokeba Amnesty International Amnesty International is a non-governmental organization that has a primary focus of human rights and has over 3 million members and supporters around the world. They participate in international politics because they focus on relations among states and other political units across international waters. The mission statement of Amnesty International is to envision a world in which every person regardless or race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally recognized human rights standards. Amnesty International unites people from all over the world to fight for human rights using their three signature tactics. The use research by keeping watch on rights of people around the world and publishing independent reports; action by using campaigns to gain attention of the international media, demanding attention of policy makers; and finally advocacy by promoting legislation that advances human rights. Amnesty International was created in 1961 in London when a British lawyer learned that two Portuguese students had be imprisoned for raising a toast to freedom and wrote an article that soon spread to newspapers around the world. The first meeting of Amnesty International was held shortly after with the original members of Belgium, the US, France, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and Ireland....
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...THE PLAN OF AMNESTY: The Solution to Illegal Immigration Michael Mays ENG 102: Composition II February 10, 2012 The Plan of Amnesty How much would it cost to put 10 Million people in busses or airplanes and ship them back to their countries of origin? Is there a better way to deal with illegal immigration in the United States? Is the answer a strict and enforceable amnesty, allowing illegal immigrants to report themselves in order to achieve legal status, or is mass deportation of the estimated 10 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. the solution? A well laid-out, simplified, yet fair and enforceable amnesty plan could solve the multi-billion dollar battle of amnesty, deportation and illegal immigration. The cost of illegal immigration to the United States is estimated in the billions by numerous news avenues but what are the actual numbers and their impact on the United States? “More than 10 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, and 1,400 more arrive every day” (Katel, 2005). This number seems very high and somewhat scary to people but the truth is that “illegal immigrants only make up about 5 percent of the U.S. work force” (Ketel, 2005). Nonetheless, strong actions have been taken by the government to try to put a stop to illegal immigration. Over the past decade or so, billions of dollars have been spent on border-control measures such as walls, fences, and increasing border patrol personnel. From 1993 to 2004, the federal government quintupled...
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...With Slavery Comes Hope The slavery stories portrayed in the short stories of Amnesty International delivered a newfound empathy for the people that have gone through these horrors. Article four is essential when discussing the Universal Decleration of Human Rights due to the overwhelming amount of slavery that has taken place around the world already. Although these are written, and encouraged to never be taken lightly, they still happen around the world today. Slavery will always be prevalent around the world in some way or another. In the short stories, a life of hope mixed with terror is a constant part of these people’s daily lives. Katya is one of the women portrayed in the short story under article four. In this story she is held a slave to the underground sex trafficking world. She was promised a waitressing job in the Balkans but instead was put to use in ways she never thought would happen to her. After Katya realized she wasn’t going to be a waitress she tried to leave, “So she decided she wanted to run back to mummy” (pg. 37 Lewycka). The owner wasn’t about to let her go after having spent good money on her. The owner of the whorehouse had Branko, the owners nephew beat her and eventually fractured some of her ribs and broke her foot. The owner seemed fine with this mistreatment of Katya but could not condone the other more horrendous treatment of her. “The bruises in her mouth and cigarette burns on her cunt I can’t condone” (pg. 38 Lewycka) The owner continually...
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...Child soldiers should be given amnesty because it is not their fault. For example, child soldiers should be given amnesty because they were forced. How it was not their fault is that they were forced into the war. According to the article, “What Are Child Soldiers?” they have stated how people recruit child soldiers. It says, “Children get abducted and forced to kill people. Either military or nonmilitary groups recruit them, bribing them with safety, food, and shelter. Once they are bribed, they are given drugs.... The reason why children are the main target for soldiers is because their easy,” (Choia, 2017). This demonstrates that it is not their fault because they were forced into the war in different ways. Not only they are forced into the war against their will, they are also bribed to do multiple things. Being tempted and forced into doing something can make anyone do anything. It is less likely that they would try to escape because of the fact that they can be addicted to the drugs or the fear of something ominous happening to them for escaping. Another reason, child soldiers should be given amnesty because it is not their fault. They were either...
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...0 tax amnesties generate revenue D that the tax authorities would not otherwise collect? Will tax amnesties pro- vide continuing or long-run revenue gains not available from enhanced enforcement alone? And if a change in tax enforce- ment is to occur, in what sense is an am- nesty appropriate in the transition to the new regime? Although twenty-six states have conducted tax amnesty programs since 1982, there has been little analysis of them to date, and almost none based on actual amnesty results.' In this paper we examine individual participation in am- nesties, both from the point of view of what economic analysis would lead us to expect and on the basis of evidence from actual amnesty programs. The empirical analy- sis is based on detailed information gath- ered on a random sample of taxpayers participating in the Michigan amnesty, and on fragmentary evidence we have been *Michigan State University, East Iiming, MI 48824 able to gather on amnesties in other states. In our view, information about the types of taxpayers (or nontaxpayers) who par- ticipate in amnesties and the circum- stances that lead them to participate can be of considerable use in evaluating the effects of amnesties and for predicting the prospects for a federal tax amnesty from the state results. Under a tax amnesty, taxpayers are of- fered an opportunity to come forward dur- ing a specified period of time and pay pre- I 15 unpaid taxes. The carrot viousiy encouraging participation is usually for-...
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...What is the death penalty? ‘Punishments are imposed on a person, not on racial or economic groups. Guilt is personal. The only relevant question is: does the person to be executed deserve the punishment?’ (Ernest van den Haag, 1986) According to Amnesty International, 139 countries have abolished the death penalty. In 2010, only one country, Gabon, abolished the death penalty for all crimes. During 2010, 23 countries executed 527 prisoners and at least 2,024 people were sentenced to death in 67 countries. More than 17,833 people are currently under sentence of death around the world (‘The Death Penalty Worldwide’) According to the United Nations, the highest per capita use of the death penalty is in Singapore, with a rate of 13.57 executions per one million population for the period 1994-99 (‘Executions Under Fire’) The death penalty is the most extreme form of punishment a government can use on its citizens Pros for death penalty ‘Simply put there is a class of people whose crimes are so heinous…that the death penalty should apply’ (Paul Rosenzweig, 2003) It is believed that governments can protect people by retaining the death penalty for murder and serious crime Opponents believe that governments should not take a life under any circumstance International human rights law forbids the execution of people who are under 18 years of age at the time of their crime (‘Death Penalty For Minors’) Cons for death penalty Unlike other punishments, the death...
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...Running Head: Death Penalty Larry Williams Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice CJA/313 University Of Phoenix Robin Rabiner May 10, 2009 Death Penalty There are crimes that take place throughout society. When crimes are investigated, and investigators have evidence that prove who were involved, there are consequences for their actions. In some cases, there are crimes that involve consequences such as the death penalty. This consequence can be one of the severe punishments that are placed in our judicial system. There are many people that are for, as well as those are against the death penalty. In many cases, the death penalty has its benefits, as well as its flaws. Unfortunately the death penalty seems to cause problems that leaves many mulling over. In this case, it seems that the flaws of the death penalty needs reinstituted. History The death penalty laws were founded in the early 1800s. This punishment was implemented for 25 different crimes. However, the death penalty establishment goes back as the early Fourteenth Century. “The death penalty was also part of the Fourteenth Century B.C.'s Hittite Code; in the Seventh Century B.C.'s Draconian Code of Athens, which made death the only punishment for all crimes.” (Death Penalty Information Center, 2009). As the centuries progressed, the number of death penalty crimes increased. By the early 1700s, there were over 200 crimes which systematize the death...
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...Universal Declaration of Human Rights is of great importance. Its signing in 1948 by the United Nations (UN) marked the 'true start of the international protection of human rights.' The Declaration was a response to the atrocities committed during the Second World War. The Declaration set out fundamental rights; these included the right to life and freedom from torture. These two rights are of vital importance in relation to the death penalty. The problem though, is that the UN Declaration was not binding in law, it had to be ratified by a country for it to be binding. However, that country may exclude from ratification any Articles or Protocols with which it does not agree. Amnesty International (A.I.) is strongly opposed to the death penalty; they feel it clearly violates fundamental human rights. Amnesty International is a non- governmental organization (NGO). NGO's concentrate on making reports on specific countries, on specific issues and they also propose legislation and recommend international standards. A.I. has been campaigning for the okay i stole this shit and i wish i was high enough to...
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...adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. *The sources that support my topic are listed in APA format: *Eddlem, T.R. (2005). Supreme arrogance: in one of its rulings, the Supreme Court has once again stepped beyond its legal bounds, ending capital punishment for people under 18 years old. Adding insult to injury, the court explicitly cited foreign sources in the main text of its decision. The New American 21.7 (April 4, 2005): p30(3). Retrieved June 5, 2009 from ProQuest database. *Arson, J.D. (2006). Brain imaging, culpability and the juvenile death penalty. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Vol.13 (2) pp. 115-142. Revised: March 17, 2007 Accepted: March 21, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2009 from ProQuest database. *Amnesty International. (2009). Human Rights. Retrieved June 5, 2009 from http://www.amnestyusa.org Sub-Point(s) Internet Source Support From my mind mapping assignment, I have narrowed my topic even further. I have decided to focus my expository essay on the effects that a juvenile's age and maturity have on determining if the death penalty should be imposed or not. The article written by T.R. Eddlem, will assist in explaining the reasoning why the death penalty should be imposed on juveniles. This article also focuses on how the amendments of the Constitution contribute to the decision of imposing the death penalty on juveniles. The article by J.D. Arson expresses how...
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...hurt and harmed many people and therefore don't deserve amnesty. First there is no possible way to tell if they are going to be good citizens or if they are going to become the next terrorist attack on the U.S. These kids are trained to be killers and liars so we can't tell if they are truly good or if they are telling one big lie. Even though some people may say that these kids are being forced at gunpoint to kill. But, even as this may be the case for some they are still killing people and they are at a young age, when they create their habits. Finally if we do decide to grant them amnesty we will be hurting them lots more then we are truly helping them. It will encourage the captors and commanders to take more child...
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...Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty Jeanine Clark PHI 103 Namoi Sanderovsky July 2, 2012 Penalty Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty We should, generally, want fairness in all areas of public policy. We should especially want fairness with regard to the death penalty, since the stakes are so high. Yet the opponents of the death penalty make a most peculiar argument about fairness. They argue that if the death penalty is not administered fairly, and especially not administered with racial fairness, it must be abolished. Nobody would even think of trying to apply this principle in a consistent way. If we find that black neighborhoods get less police protection than white neighborhoods, would we withdraw cops from both black and white neighborhoods? If banks are discriminating against black home buyers in mortgage lending, would we demand they stop all mortgage lending? If we find the IRS discriminating against middle-class and poor taxpayers, would we want to abolish the IRS? The first question, of course, is whether the death penalty is administered unfairly. Among right-thinking, politically correct people, the phrase “racial unfairness” is a mere tautology. It is difficult to imagine that anything in American society is administered with racial fairness. But, in fact, the opponents of capital punishment have both a “mass market” version of the racial disparity argument and a “specialist” version, and the two versions are flatly...
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...The recruiters were never mentioned in court, and they may be doing this to other children still, over a decade later. Despite the fact that some people believe child soldiers should not be given amnesty, I strongly believe they should. Child soldiers should be given amnesty due to their age, since children as young as eight, witness horrors nobody should. Moreover, child soldiers have endured too much, so it’s understandable to react drastically to fragile environments. Lastly, the mental effects war and the military have had on child soldiers proves that there are other variables in why they committed the actions they did. Child soldiers are treated similarly to the contestants participating in the dystopian world of The Hunger Games, both are forced into war and neither are sure if they will come out the other end alive. The KONY 2012 campaign consisted of 3.7 million people marching to arrest Joseph Kony, leader of Lord’s Resistance Army (a rebel group operating in north...
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...Business law 100 Death Penalty Death penalty The death penalty, the hardest punishment that can be implemented by the states. Person is sentenced to death, executions, a person's life in accordance to the law (often in prison) occurs when the end. Historically, criminals and political opponents of the law to be executed by almost all societies, and to punish the crime has been used to suppress political disputes. Capital punishment is applied in most locations, premeditated murder, espionage, treason, or used within the scope of military justice. The majority of Muslims in some countries, sexual crimes such as adultery and sodomy, apostasy and religious crimes such as illegal behavior involving the death penalty takes place between. In many countries, drug trafficking or the person sentenced to death for a crime shall be deemed sufficient. In China, human trafficking and serious fraud can result in death penalty cases. Around the world in the military, military courts cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and was implementing the death penalty in crimes such as rebellion. Capital punishment is a controversial issue. Those who support the death penalty, the person committed a crime in certain crimes, such as withdrawal from and murder has been given the penalty argue. Opponents of capital punishment, life imprisonment with no difference in deterrence is not an issue, human rights were violated, that lead to incorrect execution, those in the...
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... They experience that unbearable pain everyday, pain that we can’t even begin to imagine. Every single day, innocent families are being torn apart, women are being raped; children are being left without a family and without a home. This is a map of Sudan highlighting Darfur, the area that is affected by the violence. It was 2003 when Darfur was first devastated by torture, destruction, rape, and murder. This deadly conflict between rebel tribes and the government is still occurring today. Many of the minority tribes have been forced into refugee camps and left to starve and die. Many others have seen their houses and lives burned to ashes or they have watched family and friends being killed by the Sudanese military. Amnesty International USA has reported that so far, 400,000 men, women, and children have been killed and 2.6 million have been left without a home. So how much is too much? At what point will we stand up and stop this genocide? After 500,000 have lost their lives? 600.000? 700,000? Has the world not learned from the tragedies that happened in Rwanda just over a decade ago? There is debate over whether Darfur is considered Genocide or a civil war. This is a crucial question, as this will affect the way other countries will react to the situation. Another country does not want to choose sides in a civil war in fear that it will only magnify the situation. They do not want to make it seem like a invasion to reform the country. However in...
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