- corporal punishment by Grace Kelly
... international conventions on human rights prohibit it. Beatings and other corporeal punishments continue to be administered in the prison systems of many countries. Whipping and even amputation remain prescribed punishments in some Middle Eastern and Asian societies. Corporal punishment of schoolchildren is still sanctioned in many states.
- equality by Ariel Kelley
... training and education, redistributing wealth or resources, and preferential treatment of those historically treated unequally ( see affirmative action). See also. civil rights movement; feminism; gay rights movement; human rights; Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Green party by Mckenna Jackson
... pacifism and strongly support human rights; the parties are typically grassroots leftist in their political orientation.There are numerous Green parties in Europe, 32 of which are members of the European Federation of Green Parties. In 2003 those parties established the European Green party, in part in order to campaign on a common platform in EU elections. The ...
- natural law by Daisy Russell
... and other “unalienable” rights as “self-evident.” The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen asserts liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression as “imprescriptible natural rights.” Interest in the concept of natural law declined dramatically in the 19th century, partly as a result of skeptical attacks by Jeremy ...