What is the difference between positive and negative rights? Do you think that one set of rights is more important than the other? If so, why?
ebate on what causes civil war. Name two drivers of civil war. Which do you find to be a more convincing explanation and why? One feature of terrorism is that its direct victims are often not the intended targets of the violence. What is the purpose of terrorist violence and who are its intended targets?
Discuss the principles of research and evidence-based practice and how to effectively implement them for advanced practice nurses.
To what extent does stress have on the validity of eyewitness testimony?
investigate how various social, economic, and political forces and/or changes imposed by or within the state can impact human rights and the local understandings of gender and/or sexuality in a given society.
To begin with, explore the topics of “LGBT Rights” and “Women’s Rights” at the Human Rights Watch website (click the “Topics” tab at the top of the page). Within each of these broad topics you will find reports, videos, and news articles pertaining to particular issues of human rights concerns within a variety of societies or certain segments of a given society. Choose one human rights issue impacting women/girls or LGBTQ+ in a given society to describe and discuss what is constructing this phenomenon.
What is the negative phenomenon impacting the human rights for females and/or LGBTQ+ in a particular society that you are interested in? Who are being targeted?
What has influenced change (if any) in the society? What has been the outcome of these changes on human rights?
What is seen as being necessary to address this human rights concern (i.e., what are local groups trying to do to support the marginalized group in question)?
You may also choose a topic already addressed in the course (e.g., honour killings, or female genital cutting), or you may want to choose a topic of your own interest (e.g., female infanticide, bride-burning/dowry deaths, gendercide, acid attacks, female trafficking, or other violence against females, sexual orientation, or gender identity).
