In AI's perfect world everyone would enjoy all of the human rights recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. ... They let abusers know that they are being watched, that they expect them to uphold international human rights standards and not only will they be brought to justice if they commit human rights crimes plus they will look very bad in the public eye. ...

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Philip Morris was Quick to Deny such allegations to protect its reputation in the world and it was only after The human right Watch also discovered sordid evidence of human-forced labour in the tobacco production farms and that many children developed rashes from their necks arms and stomaches just by handling the tobacco materials .when it come to the attention of the issue, Philip Morris offered a " regular and constructive" dialogue between Philip Morris and The human Rights watch, after many periods of Length Discussion between the two sides, it was still uncovered that Philip...

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Sinclair had always enjoyed writing and overtime had become a popular muckracker, uncovering multiple companies faults and revealing them to the public, so it was no surprise that Frank Warren, the editor of a well-known paper, chose him to investigate the meat industry particularly in the Chicago area. ... It wasn't until 2005, when the Human Rights Watch called out the industry for its poor working conditions, employee benefits, and the multitude of other issue that they felt did not even meet basic human rights. ...

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The World Conference on Human Rights took place over two weeks in June of 1993. The Conference was held in Vienna, Austria. In attendance were 171 states committed to strengthening human rights throughout the world and to presenting an international plan to accomplish this goal. Also in attendanc...

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Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...

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Excerpts from John Locke [pp. 1-6], and Edmund Burke [pp. 7-11] from this document. This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. Excerpts From John Locke, Second Treatise of Government: CHAPTER II: LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: [II.4-5 4. To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or de...

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