3.3 Role of NGOs in protection of Human Rights
Many people around the world have dedicated their lives to do something for others, like protecting human rights and ending all kinds of abuses that could be a part of it.
This may only be possible if these people or organizations have full public support and advocacy. Non-Governmental Organizations or NGOs are such organizations that try and help all around the world. They work day in and day out, without any alternative mission, to help the needy like help those whose rights are being violated. Their methods vary from declarations to campaigning and fighting for justice.
They work hard to make the government realize and keep the promises they make and the principles of the Commission. The basic function of these NGOs are to bring together different class of people and work towards common good by providing responsibility to take care of common good via creativity among people from different groups like sex workers, migrants, children, etc.
They work towards bringing relief to victims, consultation, financial helping, and training towards doing something different. They can set up different tasks for different people to help them earn a livelihood, provide shelter to the needy and most importantly provide education with regard to their rights and duties.
3.4.1 Importance and Recognition of NGOs in promotion of Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations go back about 200 years when, at the end of eighteenth century efforts
By being an international organization CARE International has access to an abundance of information and resources allowing them to be able to help more domestic and local social movements, by using their knowledge and power to help sway the government to going more in their favour rather, and showing them all the reasons why. The core values that they really strive for when they are helping a country in need; Respect, Integrity, Commitment, and Excellence. All of these values help them within there social movement for human rights and efforts in eradicating poverty. While they are committed to their organization they are not afraid to branch out and see what organizations big or small might require their
NGOs want to be able to provide services to the people that cannot a lot of time provide for themselves on levels of education, health, environmental living conditions and so forth. NGOs will research and analyze information in a particular area(s) of interest and bring aide is ways that those may not be able to provide for themselves or provide services in order for them to improve.
There are times when someone does something important to help the person that is suffering. One example is from the book Night; this is when Elie’s dad was about to be thrown out of the train when Elie said “Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside . . . “(Wiesel 99). The example explains that Elie stood up and quickly woke up his dad before his was about to be thrown out of the window. Even though Elie slapped his dad but if he didn’t then his dad would be thrown out of the window. Another example is from the Darfur Genocide, since the Janjaweed are going into the villages and destroying everything and so the UN is helping the people. One website called “The UN security Council’s response to Darfur: a humanitarian Perspective”
They are often those who fill the gap which was left by other sectors. They usually concentrate more on social care rather than on health sector e.g. their role is to help poor people in need. Examples of them are: Red Cross, Oxfam, and British Heart Foundation.
The human rights lens provide a means to examine systemic issues and state responsibility. Human rights principles that apply to patient care include the right to the highest attainable of physical and mental health, which covers both positive and negative guarantee in respect of health, as well as civil political rights ranging from the patient's right to be free from torture and inhumane treatment to liberty and security of person. They also focus attention on the right to be free from discrimination in the allocation of resources to health services and in their availability and accessibility. Furthermore, they protect the health and wellbeing of both mother and children.
For people living in a world filled with violence, it is essential to act as kind and compassionate individuals in order to develop more peaceful communities. According to Orbinski, “[they] are not sure that words can always save lives, but [they] know that silence can certainly kill” (Médecins Sans Frontières - Nobel Lecture). They use language to define a problem and come up with a call of duty. Even though no humanitarian can make peace, the more people that respond to a certain call of duty, the closer they get to a more peaceful community. As a civil society movement, they demand change, not charity. Campaigning for a change in the cost of medicine needed to treat some of their patients is seen as one way that Doctors Without Borders demand change. Members of Doctors Without Borders remain outspoken about the injustice towards humanity by the means of media or speeches, such as the one given by Orbinski 16 years
Generally, these workers support people to deal with problems in their everyday life. They aid and
Human rights are protected under Australian law in three key ways; statute law, the constitution and common law. It could be argued that if Australia adopted a bill of rights, human rights would be more clearly defined, consistent in all states and territories and more easily understood.
victims of disasters. Its mission is as follows: “The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human
Humanitarians groups are important too Bismarck because they help people who are in bad spots.Humanitarians aren't as commonly thought as life savers like police or firefighters but they still save lives .
The first article that I read that was entitled Rethinking nonintervention: The challenge of the UN charter and protecting the dispossessed. The article stated how human rights are often violated. The article stated when crimes are committed there are little or no intervention to help the victims. The article stated how most human right crime is committed against woman and children. The article stated how nongovernmental agency have come forward to put things in place to help human rights.
There are many non-governmental organizations that fight to protect human rights such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Rights. One you may not have heard of is Refugees International. According to their website (refugeesinternational.org), Refugees International focuses on bringing aid to displaced citizens and helps to bring attention to the problems that have caused the displacement. Refugees International was originally formed in 1979 for the purpose of assisting Indochinese refugee's. Now they assist refugees from all over the world by looking out for their best interest and ensuring their safety. They do this by having workers in the field observe the treatment and care of refugees who have been displaced for various reasons including war and conflict. They do not take any government funding, solely depending on donations (Refugees International, n.d.).
Not only do they raise awareness for a global response, but their involvement in the medical field has helped civilians find medical care, and save many lives in areas where there is no access to hospital whatsoever. A CNN article, showed how dedicated they were to people in medical attention: “days of heavy airstrikes have left Syria's rebel-held eastern Aleppo without a single hospital operating at full capacity” (Smith-Spark, Kourdi & Khadder, 2016, para. 1). Despite, any infrastructure left standing during the war, they still stayed to avoid many more deaths by trying to help the
The Human rights campaign is an interest group which in fact deals with human rights. This group has expanded over the years and has a huge influence on the world today. The human rights campaign has had a lot of success in and out of the white house. Some issues that the HRC deals with are gay rights, transgender equality and hate crimes. The HRC are very dynamic and cater to a lot of needs.
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights stands as the current gold standard for every individual’s rights. Focusing on culture, one may see that cultural rights are not clearly defined and are oftentimes in conflict with other types of rights. In this paper, I will first discuss the United Nations’ use of ‘cultural’ in its universal human rights in relation to the concept of cultural relativism. Then, using South African and American practices, such as virginity testing and discriminatory criminal justice system respectively, I will describe and analyze practices violate the UN’s universal human rights in addition to the practices’ use for the community or society as a whole. Lastly, I will compare the American Anthropological Association’s rights to culture to the UN’s universal human rights by analyzing the limitations of each.