Human Rights Essays

The Impact of Voice of America on Human Rights and Democracy around the World.
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Mar 2025
Introduction: This essay provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis of VOA’s role in promoting human rights and democracy, grounded in primary legislation and scholarly works....

The Liberation of Women
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Feb 2025
Introduction: A LawTeacher.net sample essay in human rights law titled The Liberation of Women, including the roots of feminism and case law dating to John Stuart Mill's ...

Are Customary Laws Gender Biased?
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Nov 2022
Introduction: The scope of this project is restricted to studying the gender bias in customary laws over property rights in various laws. The researcher would not intend to explore other inequalities, which may follow the same pattern as existent in case of property rights....

Targeted Killing and International Humanitarian Law
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2021
Introduction: Morality aside, targeted killings invoke a varied response from the international community in terms of its lawfulness. “Some consider targeted killing as extra-judicial executions or assassinations.” While others see targeted killing as “legitimate acts of war carried out as part of the state’s inherent right to self-defense...

Holocaust Denial in the UK - The David Irving Trial
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2021
Introduction: The United Kingdom has witnessed one of the most prominent trials regarding Holocaust denial, in the form of Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt. David Irving, a British author, filed a claim after American author Deborah Lipstadt, and her publishers Penguin Books, asserting that Lipstadt had libelled him in her book Denying the Holocaust...

Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2021
Introduction: The aim of this essay is to analyse whether or not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) does have any relevance in regard to regional human right treaties. It is fundamental to understand the components which may affect the continuing relevance of the UDHR and whether these components have an impact on regional human rights treaties....

Canadian Human Rights Laws
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2021
Introduction: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution, and the constitution rules the Country both federally and provincially.  This arguably makes it the most important law in Canada and continues to dictate Canadian culture. (Government of Canada, 2017)...

Does the legal framework for UK policing properly balance competing rights and interests
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jun 2021
Introduction: That is why by answering the question this essay will present an argumentative discussion whether the legal framework for everyday policing in the United Kingdom’s streets properly balance competing interests and rights or not....

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jun 2021
Introduction: Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is a legal right granted to indigenous peoples. This right is gleaned from the fundamental human right of self-determination which allows peoples to freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development....

The Internationalization of Human Rights Law
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jun 2021
Introduction: The debate on a result of the internationalization of Human Rights Law has been very controversial in my LL.M. Programme (LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice). Therefore, this essay will explore legal concepts such as (Legal transplant and convergence) learned from this module, seeking to understand in relation to the ‘Internationalization of law’ under different legal systems...

Human Rights Act 1998
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Mar 2021
Introduction: The Human Rights Act 1998. The Human Rights Act gives every citizen a clear statement of rights and responsibilities, and it requires all of us in public services to respect human rights in everything we do (Blair 1999: 1)....

Constitutional Implications on Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Mar 2021
Introduction: Constitutional Implications on Human Rights.Taking as example at least two of the Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights,(now incorporated into domestic law following the Human Rights Act 1998), explain the constitutional implications, with particular reference to the role of the judiciary....

Human Rights Convention
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Mar 2021
Introduction: Human Rights Convention. The Human Rights Act 1998, came into force in full on 2nd October 2000; guaranteeing the Convention rights of the individual against interference by the state and enabling people in the UK to enforce these rights and liberties in UK courts....

Effect of UK Anti-terrorism Legislation on Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Feb 2021
Introduction: The law on terrorism in the United Kingdom has been described as ‘an unmitigated disaster. In todays society the threat of terrorism is at a dangerous level and the legislation in place has been unstable to say the least....

Human Rights Act Responsibilities and Freedoms
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Feb 2021
Introduction: The Human Rights Act 1998… has transformed our system of law into one of positive rights, responsibilities and freedoms, where before we had only the freedom to do what was not prohibited...

Regional Human Rights Mechanisms
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jan 2021
Introduction: This essay will explain the functioning and effectiveness of regional systems and analyse whether they are more effective than universal systems....

Role of Culture, Tradition, Religion
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jan 2021
Introduction: The dilemma which arises in the concept of the role of culture, tradition, religion in universality of human rights have been a major concern right from day one, as the meaning of universality of human rights and the principles...

Reservations to Human Rights Treaties and Their Validity – A Contemporary Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: An ongoing debate in international human rights law concerns the universality of human rights treaties versus their integrity....

State Powers in Times of Emergency and Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: This essay will be discuss whether states should be granted permission to derogate from the right to liberty and core fair trial rights...

Right to Environment of Human Right
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Dec 2020
Introduction: Of late the worldwide society has amplified its alertness on the relationship between environmental dilapidation and human rights abuses.Exercise and enjoyment of Human Rights by all the people is necessary for full development as human beings....

Does the Law Enforce or Remedy Sexual Inequality?
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Dec 2020
Introduction: Law is a system of rules and principles that are formulated and established in a community by the society or governmental agencies to regulate human’s behaviors...

Torture and Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Dec 2020
Introduction: Torture and Human Rights. Torture is an abominable act, a disregard and disrespect to the dignity of a person and violation of one's human rights. Usually, it is defined and described together with....

Evaluation on the UK's Regulations on Prisoner Voting
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Nov 2020
Introduction: The UK’s decision for a blanket ban on prisoner voting has come under scrutiny time after time, one of the cases challenging this decision was the Hirst v UK...

Analysis of the ECHR judgment in Opuz v Turkey
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Nov 2020
Introduction: Opuz v Turkey was brought by, Mrs Opuz -- a victim of domestic violence, against the Turkish government for failing to protect her and her mother from attacks by her husband ...

History of Natural Law and Human Rights
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020
Introduction: The classical Natural Law and more modern liberal and individualistic Natural Rights are historically connected and express moral ideas rather than enforceable legal standards....