Human right Abuses Assignment PDF
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Human right Abuses Assignment PDF
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0HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES IN CANADA Human right abuses in CanadaName of the studentUniversity nameAuthor’s note
1HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES IN CANADA Table of ContentsProposal......................................................................................................................................2A thesis statement......................................................................................................................3Discussion on human rights abuses in Canada..........................................................................4Different approaches taken to address the human right abuses by Canada...............................6Annotated bibliography..............................................................................................................7References................................................................................................................................10
2HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES IN CANADA Proposal The current study focuses upon the aspect of human right abuses in Canada and thedifferent approaches which had been taken in order to address the issue. Canada has a globalreputation as a defender of human rights, which are guaranteed by the Canadian charter ofrights and freedom. However, the government faces major issues in the dissemination ofequal human rights and privileges to the citizens of Canada. Some of serious human rightsissues which have emerged during the current decade are placement of children inimmigration detention and use of prolonged solitary confinement. There has been a gradualincrease in the crime against women and young girls of the indigenous population. Thereports of abuses from the mining industries have also gained importance. Increased securityconcerns from the Canadian government have further deteriorated the living standards of therefugees. There is inadequate attention to housing, water, sanitation, healthcare, educationand job prospects of the indigenous community living in the remote area. The water bodies inthe local and remote areas have been contaminated though mercury poisoning which hasresulted in poor health status of the residents. Although, the Ontario government pledged that$85 million will be spent towards cleaning the rivers, they are lagging behind the targetsconsiderably (Sikkink & Lutz, 2017). Indigenous women constitute 16 percent of the totalfemale homicides in the country and 11.3 percent of missing women. The policing failure hasbeen contributed to making the indigenous women more susceptible to violence.Therefore, from the above analysis it could be ascertained that the Canadiangovernment had failed to restructure the human rights considerably as the indigenouspopulation as well as the immigrants have to still suffer from deprivation of the basicprivileges. On the other hand, it could also be stated that the long propagated communal
3HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES IN CANADA sentiments by the colonial government had reinforced the aspect of racial discriminationwithin the community.A thesis statement For the current study, we have taken two counter views into consideration. One of theviews says that the Canadian government has failed to restructure the human rights, whichcould meet with changing requirements the people. This has been further argued by a viewwhich states that it is the long settled racial sentiments of the people which had prevented theequitable social inclusion and upliftment of the ethnic minority communities. This could befurther explained with the help of two such acts which are the exclusion act and theresidential schools act.The exclusion act had been passed out in the year 1882 which prohibited theimmigration of Chinese laborers in the country. This could be referred back to the 1848 goldrush event which brought a huge number of Chinese laborers to US. However, as the surfacegold became hard to find along with increased social tension between the differentindigenous and refugee communities the Chinese laborers were thrown out. However, duringthe refugee movement many travelers along with their filial generations were still trapped inthe United States of America. The families of the immigrants who were trapped in the UnitedStates for later generations had to suffer from racial discriminations and insufficient access tobasic social services. As mentioned by Hennebry, McLaughlin & Preibisch (2016), for yearsthe discriminatory attitudes have been prevalent within the population of the united states andthe Canadian territory, which are seen to be reflected in the dissemination of the some of thebasic social services such as health, education ,employment. Thesis statement: Racial discriminatory attitude prevalent within the Canadian populationresults in unequal distribution of human rights and social services
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