The Janplex Post

The term discrimination is often associated with negativity. Negative discrimination involves treating one group of people less favourably than another group. The main causes of negative discrimination are many and they include race, gender, colour, religion, and sexual orientation. The victims of discrimination are always the minority groups in society while the perpetrators are often the majority groups. However, discrimination can also be described in terms of its positivity. Discrimination is said to be positive if it is used to readdress the imbalance in society caused by negative discrimination. The importance of positive discrimination is recognised almost universally. Article 2.2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, for example, urges signatories or member states to legislate for positive discrimination. The laws of most of the countries around the world including the United States, Canada, India, China, Israel, Malays

A large proportion of people in Britain especially those between the ages of 19 and 27 get drunk every Friday night. Emergency services including the Ambulance and police services provide round the clock care to these drunks to ensure that they are okay. In the past, policy makers have tried to tackle this binge problem by introducing different measures including the restriction of the age at which a person can purchase alcohol, asking Pubs not to sell drinks to any customer they suspect to be drunk, and increasing the taxation on alcohol. So far none of these measures has helped in reducing the binge culture. Now the police have come up with a new solution to the persistent problem of drinking called the “Drunk Tanks”. The Drunk tanks will involve private cells designed to accommodate drunk people until they become sober. They will be run by private companies who will be required to follow specific guidelines relating to the caring of vulnerable people. The cost of these servi

Online piracy is a major problem facing the digital industry including the music, film, software, and eBooks industry. Research shows for example that about $12.5 billion is lost annually as a result of Piracy in the music industry, almost all the music downloaded online (95%) is non-copyrighted, and 42% of software being used across the world is downloaded illegally. While these figures are alarming there seem to be justifications for online piracies. The justification for online piracy is associated with poverty. The cost of many of the items being downloaded illegally online is too high compared to the cost of pirated copies of those items. People who cannot afford to pay this high price are left with no option but to get adulterated copies of the items either for a fraction of the original cost or even for free. What is the evidence for this? Research has found that the vast majority of people who download or upload pirated copies of original items are from developing countr

Following the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria against its people last week the west is calling for punitive sanctions in the form of military strikes against Syria. The west is justifying this call for action against Syria on the basis that the use of chemical weapons has been outlawed by the international community. Therefore, any state that uses such weapons violates international law. Aside from the fact that this ban on the use of chemical weapons does not provide sanctions for the violation, there are other weapons which are more destructive than chemical weapons but are not prohibited by any known international law. Chemical weapons are less destructive than nuclear weapons but the former are outlawed while the latter are not. When released chemical weapons can kill only living creatures such as humans and animals around the affected vicinity but will not affect inanimate objects such as buildings and road networks. In contrast, when released nuclear weapons can d

The revelation of sexual abuse perpetrated by the former BBC employee, Jimmy Savile, for a considerable number of years shocked every person in the UK. The Police stated that up to 200 victims of Savile’s crimes had come forward to report the sexual abuse. Since the revelation was made last year, many other victims of childhood sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by other sexual predators had come forward to report the victimization. The police had been investigating these cases and arrested some of the accused implicated in them. However, public opinion is divided over these cases not only because these alleged crimes were committed several decades ago but also because the accusations may not be very reliable. While some people believe that any allegations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously regardless of when such acts were committed, others question the motives of reporting such sexual abuses committed many decades ago and are calling for statutory limitation on prosec

Domestic violence is one of the cases dealt with by the police on daily basis. While most of the victims of this abuse are often perceived as women, the perpetrators are often seen as men. However, a recent study shows that these statistics may be misleading, and that men may suffer domestic violence almost as much as women. One million two hundred thousand (1.2 m) women suffer domestic violence annually compared with 780, 000 men who suffer similar ordeals. If these statistics are correct why are male victims of domestic violence not known to the authorities? Male victims of domestic abuse may not come forward to report their victimization because of the issue of believability. People report cases of abuse to the authorities if they know that the authorities will believe them. Male victims of domestic abuse do not report their victimization because the authorities cannot believe them. The tendency not to believe men who report domestic abuse may stem from the fact that me