Category Archives: Human Rights
Death and Homosexuality: The Unrecognized Genocides
Death and Homosexuality: The Unrecognized Genocides Tom Henheffer St. Thomas University 7 April 2009 There have been four distinct periods of crime committed against homosexuals in the past century. Homosexuals were victims of genocide during the holocaust. After this, they … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Research Papers
End It: Mandatory Retirement and the Charter
End It: Mandatory Retirement and the Charter St. Thomas University 26 November 2007 Mandatory retirement should be banned in Canada, with a few exceptions allowed. It can do a lot of harm to those it forces to retire, and does … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Research Papers
NB Human Rights Code: Enforcement and Funding
NB Human Rights Code: Enforcement and Funding St. Thomas University 5 December 2007 The New Brunswick Human Rights Code does a lot of things right. In many ways it matches the rights guaranteed by Canada’s international obligations and the conditions … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Research Papers
Law According to Bonhoeffer, King, and Socrates
Socrates, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King all believe that human laws are not, in and of themselves, perfect. They argue that laws can not stand alone, but must rest on something much more fundamental, the divine laws, the laws … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Political Science, Research Papers
The evils of lesser evils: Ignatieff and the statist response to terrorism
The evils of lesser evils: Ignatieff and the statist response to terrorism St. Thomas University 2007 A statist response to terrorism is ineffective. It regards terrorism as something that it is not, and fights it in a way that does … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Political Science, Research Papers
