Human Rights   

Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States During WWII Was Justified

The internment of the Japanese by the United States has been repeatedly and eloquently denounced as a racist-inspired violation of legal and constitutional principles, unjustified by even the broadest definition of pragmatic grounds. For practical purposes, the standard interpretation runs that no acts of espionage or sabotage, nor evidence…>> (read more)

Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States During WWII Was Not Justified

The internment that relocated more than 120,000 Japanese Americans and 23,000 Japanese Canadians between the years 1942 and 1946, was not justified. Because of earlier opposition to Chinese immigration, all Asians were prohibited from naturalization in the U.S.; thus, the Issei, or first generation Japanese immigrants, were considered aliens ineligible…>> (read more)

U.S. Should Acknowledge the Rights of All Humans, Whether U.S. Citizens or Not

Although its record on human rights violations is far from stellar, the U.S. cannot focus only on abuses at home; it must also contribute to the prevention and correction of human rights abuses worldwide.

One area in which the U.S. is progressive compared to other countries is women’s human rights. Discrimination…>> (read more)