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The Violation of Human Rights
Table of Contents Page
1. Introduction 3
2. Relevance and value of human rights 3
3. Case studies 4
3.1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 4
3.2 African Charter 5
3.3 Bill of Human Rights 7
4. Conclusion 7
5. Bibliography 8
1. Introduction
Basic human rights are being violated every day all over the world. This includes each human being’s fundamental rights, which are rights that come with being human. Most importantly this means that even a person’s right to life and safety gets ignored on a daily basis, internationally. A variety of instruments have been put into place to prevent such violations, e.g. Universal
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Values are also called moral rights, which are not legal rights. These rights can be objectively or subjectively and varies from culture to culture. Human rights, says (Rwiza, 2010), are justifiable claims that have achieved widespread moral force and stands as the strongest moral claims available.
3. Case studies
Going through the latest human rights violations list, it is clear that there is an endless amount of cases happening all around the world. Examples of such violations are:
3.1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Theoretical Background of UDHR o Article 4 – “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) o Article 5 – “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948)
• Case study – Human trafficking
• Analysis of violations – Human trafficking is a huge problem worldwide and one of the fastest-growing criminal activities. Humans are torn away from families, bound, gagged and transported in boxes or coffins without food or water. These people are forced into labour with no payment and very little to stay alive. Minimum food is given and they often have to sleep on the floor and work extremely long hours. They are also forced into sexual slavery and commercial sexual exploitation to benefit their traffickers. This is not limited to labour, but often
Implementation of international human rights law can happen on either a local, a territorial or a global level. States that endorse human rights arrangements confer themselves to regarding those rights and guaranteeing
‘Article 3 no torture, Inhuman or degrading treatment’ (liberty-human-rights.org.uk). No one should be tortured, abused, beaten, or treated in a degrading way everyone has a right to be treated as a human without being bullied or treated wrongly for example when you go in a hospital they have signs up to ask you no to abuse them as they are trying to
Article 7: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishments.
This right is stated in article 4, “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude: slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”.
Human rights - they are an ongoing issue in the world today, with the constant struggle against violation. The United Nations has accepted 30 articles on human rights, which help protect millions from political, social, and legal abuses (UDHR). Even with the insistence from the world’s leaders to follow and honor these rights, violation is common and provides a serious threat to people all over the world. One example of a violation of human rights such as equality and safety in possessions is shown through the issue of Japanese American internment camps (UDHR).
The Fifth Article states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Article 5 states that no one should be tortured or undergo inhumane
Throughout much of human history, certain issues have stayed unresolved for the longest time. Some are political, some are societal, and still, some are religious, but only modern day sees the conclusions to these affairs. Particularly, a human rights violation occurs when a government or other authority goes against any basic right that all humans are born with. Some of these rights include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, only in the modern-day is a violation such as injustice realized and dealt with appropriately.
It is well known that the United States have been seen internationally as a key actor, for better or worse, when it comes to the field of universal human rights. At the same time, recent events have shown a disassociation between the words and actions of the nation. Despite the fact that these rights are supposed to be constitutionally-protected, the United States has been criticized for repeatedly violating them not only in the past but in recent memory: criminalization of poverty and homelessness, violation of the privacy of citizens all over the world, racism, police brutality, the prison-for-profit system, mistreatment or even torture of the prisoners. These are just some examples of the most common forms of human rights violations
The 13th amendment of United States constitution prohibited slavery. By 1981 different nations had taken action accordingly and exiled slavery. While the legal type of slavery was abrogated, the unlawful sort of slavery was left to flourish. Unlawful bondage, alluded to as human trafficking originated before the US for centuries in places such as Egypt and ancient Rome has been
The illicit trafficking of humans for purposes of slavery continues to be a global issue and clear violation of fundamental Human Rights. Article 4 of The UDHR states; “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”. Human trafficking is defined as the commercial trade of human beings for the purpose of some form of slavery or exploitation, a clear violation of individual human rights. It is hard to quantify the extent of the issue, however the UN has estimated that there are over 2.5 million victims of human trafficking across state boarders. As an international issue, human trafficking requires international attention - however for international laws to be most effective they
Having human rights in place imposes certain obligations on the government and justifies the complaints of those whose rights and freedoms have not been respected. Everyone is entitled to human rights regardless of their nationality, gender, race, religion, or political opinion. The failure to recognize these rights results in conflict and a vicious cycle of violence as more human rights are violated. To avoid such clashes, human rights have become a fundamental part of global law and policy. However, they have not always been that way. Catastrophic events in history that claimed thousands of lives ran their vicious course before it was recognized that there had to be human rights established. The most famous example of genocide is the Holocaust, which killed around six million Jews. After the Holocaust, the United Nations recognized that there had to be human rights put into place. Two human rights from the United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” that were perversely violated during the Holocaust are Article 5 (the protection against inhumane treatment or punishment) and Article 25 (the right to a standard of living.) Light is shed upon the exploitation of human rights during the Holocaust in both Night by Elie Wiesel and The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal. The Holocaust was a devastating event that opened our eyes to just how cruel humans can be, and why human rights must be enforced and protected.
Human rights are universal rights that we are entitled to. It is a freedom that is guaranteed based on the principle of respect for an individual. As mentioned in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights are a “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all member of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world” (Kent, page 80). When asked what our rights are, we tend to get different answers and meanings. Some people recite the rights that they know; but let’s face it, not everyone knows all of the rights that they truly have. The rights we have consist of many things such as the right of having an adequate food supply. The right to
Every single human being on this planet has rights. These rights are given to us through birth, and the day I was asked, what my human rights were, I found myself speechless. I did not know how to answer the question, which at the time sounded so easy. I forgot about the question that had me so puzzled, and just brushed it off, ironically six month later I get an assignment on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After reading this historic document, I realized how important human rights are. I believe most people take human rights for granted, we know they exist, but we don’t even know what they are
Human rights describe equal rights and freedom for everybody by the fact of being human and without distinction of any kind of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinions. However, many people have always suffered from the lack of them throughout history. In fact, the lack of human rights has a lot of effects on people lives.