Social Justice Challange

Students Will Oppose It

The recent plans of the UK’s government on cuts in the higher education really disturbed the academic circles. Universities and students are unhappy with the proposals by the government to cut the budget for higher education since this might influence and interfere with the work of most of the educational institutions.

The proposal for reducing the money for universities might lead to serious political debates since the moving force of UK nation, the students, do not seem to be quite More

The risk of executing the innocent

During the years great effort has been made to minimize the chance of an innocent person being executed. Many people have saved themselves from being executed by appealing against their sentences, helped by the introduction of new laws.

The people who do not support the practice of releasing convicts who have already been given the death penalty claim that down the years 69 people who were guilty were released from prison. They point out several cases, such as Roger Keith More

Statistics examinations 2

present some findings through examining statistics about the financial status of various groups of people in Britain. The first part of the text is under the name statistics examination 1 and there I already discussed some of the social groups‘ More

South Africa On Human Rights

The new leadership within the South African Republic is focused on pretty much the same issues as the previous one. The new president, Jacob Zuma, says his main prioroties are mainly related with the unity and peace in Africa, the promotion of peace and stronger ties with the countries which might turn out to be quite beneficial for the Republic. On human rights, the slow progress the government is showing cannot actually satisfy the international expectations.

However, a good improvement in the human rights protection by SA has been shown - recently the International Criminal Court announced it is prosecuting the Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and genocide and Zuma, as South Africa is a member of the court, announced if the president of Sudan sets a foot on South African soild, he faces an arrest. A good approach in preserving the international human rights distribution has been shown in that particulat issue as well as the discussions on the Israeli attack over the Turkish humanitarian aid ship.

On the other hand, Mr Zuma seems quite reluctant to interfere in areas which need urgent resolution - Mugabe, the political leader of Zimambawe, keeps committing crimes by not allowing the opposition to take a step forward, people are being arrested for no reason, white people exposed to constant danger. On that issue, Mr Zuma has not said a single word and this is when the interference of South Africa is quite needed. Other discussions on SA’s position on human rights arise with the international problems of Africa in general - Mr Zuma is being silent on the international forums about how exactly should the matter be approached.

This is definitely indicating a contraversial South African position towards the matters of human rights and liberties - while Mr Zuma keeps being silent in order to satisfy everyone and offend no-one (as if human rights are vw camper vans for sale ), the African continent needs urgent support in these areas since it is hightime that peace should be settled within the continent.

Fill Her Up

Fuel is a big topic of conversation amongst environmentalists; when is it going to run out, how safe and clean is it, why aren’t alternative fuels being taken seriously? These are all good points and ones that need to be discussed in some depth, by governments as well as green pressure groups.

Many people don’t realise how easy it is to use green fuels like bio diesels. Many makes of car will actually run perfectly well on fuel made from rapeseed with little or no conversion, the only major problem is usually finding somewhere to buy bio diesel fuel in the first place.

If you have a diesel car and what to give a more natural fuel a try, you should probably check with the manufacturer first, especially if you are still under warranty. After all, chucking some experimental fuel in an engine which then dies is a sure fire way to make sure you get a hefty garage bill for repairs. Some car manufacturers have already said that certain models of theirs are suitable for bio diesel; Audi, VW and Seat cars made between 1994 and 2006 have already been approved for 100% RME, the bio diesel made from rapeseed. If something goes wrong after that, your warranty should not be affected. If you have a newer car they should be OK too, but check direct with the manufacturer, not just your local showroom.

There are currently over fifty businesses that sell bio diesel, ranging from industrial estate units to remote rural farms. Bear in mind that these do not operate like regular petrol stations; you can’t drive up at 3am and expect to get fuel and a cup of coffee to go. It’s best to contact your nearest sales point and make an arrangement to pick up the fuel as regularly as you need to.

It Is A Matter of Self-Defense… Or Not?

English law has always been admired by every single jurisdiction in the world because of two reasons - the forst one is because of the common law of precedents where the court decides what the law is. Additionally, the Perliament-made laws are just as essential as the judge-made and the Acts of the main legislative body fill in the gaps of the common law approaches. Undoubtedly, a perfect system … but on theory.

In practice, the system has its many lacks - a particular example is the law on self-defense which bothers almost 79% of the UK population and threatens to become a matter of political discussions for upcoming Parliamentary elections and explode as a diesel fuel storage tank at the next elections. Probably everything started with the famous Tony Martin case where a farmer killed while defending his farm. He was convicted and even now when we read the law we see something contraversial - ’the reasonable force'requirement for protecting yourself.

What is that supposed to mean?? Well; suppose you are attacked by a huge strong Scandinavian man twice taller than you and in his best physical shape… then image he doesn’t have a gun but still a punch in your face would be enough for you to spend three years in a wheelchair because of desorientation issues and instability. Then you pick up your legally owned gun and shot the guy in a moment of fear and preservation instinct. In this case you will be… convicted! Becase fists and a gun are not matching means of attack - the one cannot compare to the other so you have misused force, you have applied grossly unreasonable force to protect yourself. And this is when the issue comes in place - can someone please define how many times do we have to read the statute and the relevant legislation before being able to protect ourselves.

Or should we ask our attacker for a timeout until we read a few lines from the specially prepared copy of the Homicide Act that we always carry with us?

The Issue With the Commonwealth

Surprisingly, in days of democracy and proclamation of independance and basic freedoms, the UK’s Commonwealth system of ex colonies still bothers many of the international organisations. The two sides of the story are somehow completely opposite - on the one hand, there is no issue because while being associated as commonwealth many countries are being supported by the UK directly or indirectly, but on the other hand this gives grounds for a consideration - is actually the UK interfering with the authonomy of these ex colonies?

Historically, the commonwealth consists of countries that were conquered politically or by means of war by the British Empire and that have been influenced by the West for centuries. The good things comes up immediately and there is no doubt this is something quite positive - after the settlement of English authorities within the Commonwealth, the regional development of these states dramatically improved - technologies, science, social services, economic development and public support are just a minor part of the innovations that the Europeans brought to these countries. Even nowadays, the Commonwealt, even being said to be completely independant, receive quite a lot of money and funds for development from private and public English organisation (however, they do not receive any cheap ipods from the Brits ) so we can generally conclude - this is the good part of being a Commonwealth country.

But there is something else that bothers the international political organisations - these ex colonies are actually still being influenced by the UK politically, judicially and economically. A political and judicial domination can be observed in Jamaica for example as an ex colony - politically the country is still under the rule (even though formally only) of the Queen and judicially, the legal authorities in Jamaica must consider cases from the English Privy Council (resposible for cases from the Commonwealth). This is definitely an example of interferance from the UK in the matters and affairs of the Commonwealth and this is what rises the issue - is the Commonwealth system actually composed of INDEPENDENT countries?