Human+Rights+Protection



[] Summary: The Canadian Government, before the year 2000, had promised to end child poverty. It is now 2010 and nothing has changed. Many of the families living in poverty, can not get out of it no matter how hard they work. There is simply not enough money to put food on the table, clothes on the back, and sometimes shoes on the feet. Or even in the major cities such as Toronto, Vancouver, etc. the parents simply don't have enough money for bus fare or to pay someone to look after the children with a job interview. Grant Wilson states that the country is to do a report every five years, and the last one we did was in Janurary 29th, 2009. But he also states that the government has promised to take care of the situation and how they are full filling the obligation for human rights, this is a lie. He believes that the Canadian government just doesn't take it seriously and it is not a priority to them. This is a national human rights issue because the people living in poverty should get as much access to things like medicare, food, clothes, schooling, jobs, etc. like we do. This is not the case for many families.

[] Summary: Daniel Sebben was 13 when he started getting bullied.While going to school, for the next 6 years, he faced homophobic slurs, verbal abuse, and insults. When talking to the school, the leader of the "gang" was suspended for a few days... but when the bully came back things started off the same, and eventually got worse. Daniel's marks began slipping, he was depressed, cut, and attempted to commit suicide. They researched many aspects of bullying and found out that Canada is one of the worst places doing bullying at school. Daniel's bullying situation stopped the year of grade 11 after Daniel's mother, the bully's father, and a facilitator, and the vice principal. Through counselling and an alternative education route, Daniel was still able to graduate. This is not the case with everyone that goes through bullying. This is a national human rights issue because people have a right to feel safe at school. They have a right to continue their education, even if they are going through bullying. Schools should encounter better consequences for bullies, that may have to be harsher.

[] Summary: Codie Stott, a student at Harrop Fold High School in Worsley, Greater Manchester, was arrested for refusing to study with a group of Asian students that did not entirely speak English. They had to work on an assignment, Codie had said, so the teacher explained the assignmetn to the one Asian student that knew how to speak english (there were five in total, one knowing english, the rest not knowing). After the teacher had left, the other children started speaking in their native tongue, excluding Codie completely. Codie explained to the reporters that she had talked to the teacher about possibly switching groups because she couldn't understand them. "I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'." Earlier there was a boy from the same school, taken to court because of racial slurs being yelled at to another boy on the playground. The court had ordered it as "political correctness gone mad" I believe that this is also a national human rights issue because every child, no matter what race, has the chance to go to school. They should not feel endangered or discriminated against at school, or any place for that matter.