Human Rights Watch

Did you know that today there are still acts of genocide happening around the world? “The Ten Stages of Genocide” is an article written by Gregory H. Stanton, the president of Genocide Watch, an organization that is fighting to end genocide. In this article, Stanton lists ten stages that will occur in a genocide, starting with the stage of classification and ending with the stage of denial. In Burma, a sovereign state, also known as Myanmar, a minority ethnic group named the Rohingya is being discriminated

worsened over time. People are making a stand for human rights but is it necessarily enough to stop people from doing critical things to others. There are three specific human rights violations that should be recognized and handled in Kenya. We should care about Kenya because they have lost the right to own things, police brutality and torture is happening to innocent people. But three violations are not even close to cover all the human rights violations in Kenya. Kenya has progressively got worse

Human Rights Watch, is one of many organizations that fight against crimes against humanity. A small group within the organization, the Emergencies Team, works in the field to document and investigate atrocious crimes committed all over the world. In the documentary “E-Team,” filmmakers follow a group of investigators into Syria and Libya to show the conflict within the countries but also the work and life of the investigators. There are many international organizations that work to defend human

respect, and that is not okay. Women’s rights activists have tried to get it to change, and have traveled to many places to try and get more people to join their movement. There are many issues with women not having the same rights as men. One of the main problems is that they are treated less than men, and many people feel that treating them less is okay, and it doesn’t have to change. Women in Iran can not go watch sports in a stadium. “Women’s rights are severly restricted in Iran, to the point

burnings of towns and villages, and the forceful depopulation of Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa land. The militia, Muslim like the African groups, have destroyed many religious artifacts including the desecrated Qorans that belong to their enemies (Human Rights Watch, 2004, p. 5). The Sudanese government is breaching at

International Organizations regarding their views on the matter of responsibility of National Governments, EU and Frontex in line with the humanitarian challenges that rise up. To begin with, As Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights in October 2012 explicitly said “Human rights will not improve much without the direct participation of a robust, free and independent civil society….” According to the Migration Policy Institute, a globally accepted definition for the civil society does not exist but

terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq exposes these child soldiers to extreme violence and exploitation. Children are kidnapped and sent to the military training camps, where they practice beheading with dolls. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child claimed the militants force kids into service as suicide bombers. Research with former child soldier, commanders will supply child soldiers with marijuana and

Most of us don't understand what it is like to have our basic human rights violated. Nor will many of us every really understand. In India, their citizens are suffering from many different types of violations. For instance, people are being tortured. Women are being raped and single handedly being deprived of their rights. Many women are being kidnapped, raped, tortured and some even end up being killed. It's very eye opening when you find out about these types of things because we never hear about

questioning the political system there is having three generations of your family killed? Or that if you watch a Hollywood movie there, you will be killed? These laws only show us the depth of the huge human crisis that is happening in this country. North Korea is a terrible country for living. Most of its population suffer tremendously, and they wish that they could be helped. They are right to wish for help, and we can clearly see this with two main points that seriously affect citizens’ lives;

There are several different human rights that are important to me. Article 1 states that  “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood,” this is important especially to infants during their first years in life. They have been born with different rights that protects them yet they are not able to comprehend what a “right” is, as humans we trust each other to be able to defend