The 1960s saw the civil rights movements, the women’s suffrage movement, and the gay rights movements become full-fledged social movements. All of these movements had key leaders who were persistent, intelligent, and inspiring, and dared to challenge ordinary American society. Although, none of these movement leaders lived long enough to...

The article “Australian Prisoners with Disabilities Subjected to Harrowing Abuse, Report Finds,” published on February 6, 2018, in the newspaper “The Guardian,” is retrieved from www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/07/australian-prisoners-with-disabilities-subjected-to-harrowing-abuse-report-finds. It focuses on the violation of human rights in Western Australia and Queensland. According to the article, the assessment of treatment conditions for prisoners...

In his Human Rights article, Richard Falk perceives the concept of human rights as a cornerstone for the international community. However, recently the concept has acquired the regional flavor becoming split into Islamic, European or American. The situation with the protection of the universal rights considerably worsened after 9/11 mishap....

Human rights activism is a practice by individual persons, groups, organization or movements with the aim to advocate for human rights protection. Human rights activism emanated from a Declaration of Human Rights Defenders by the United Nations in 1998, whereby individuals, groups, organs of the society got the rights and...

The European colonial interest had a tremendous impact on the state of human rights in every country anywhere across the globe. Some of the effects are continually felt even today in the colonies. A case study of the Belgium colonization of Congo, as Adam Hochschild records in his book –...