The Importance Of Human Basic Needs

Have you ever asked why people emigrate from country to country or continent to continent? There are a lot of people around the world who live under administrations that failed to fulfill their citizens’ basic needs. Human basic needs are the most important benchmark that people usually insist on meeting it wherever they live. In this case, there are a lot of people around the world who live under administrations that failed to fulfill their citizens’ basic needs. Most of these people usually decide to move to any place they think their fundamental needs and rights are considered and protected. Among the many reasons that push the people out of their country some of the reasons are wars, poverty, and lack of job opportunities.

First of all, wars lead to uproot citizens and force them to leave out of their home countries. When people’s lives are threatened, infrastructures devastated, food shortages prevail, and a healthcare system shuts down, people start moving to countries where life is promising. For example, according to the refugeesinternational “As of September 2013, there were more than 1.1 million Somalis displaced internally and nearly one million refugees living in neighboring countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, and Yemen”. Likewise, according to Syrian refugees “An estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011”, people who lose their loved ones leave all their belongings behind during a war. For example, when people are fleeing from their countries they leave their houses, their personal property, and all of their other belongings. Finally, they choose to leave to foreign countries where culture, climate, and lifestyle are completely different from the war an unstable p...

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...t people think before they fall into this harsh situation they have to leave the country to find a better place to find a job. Some of them manage to do that while others do not get the opportunity to find a better place and remain to be part of the problem. Therefore, lack of job opportunity can directly or indirectly accelerate people to move out of their country to another.

In conclusion, thousands of people leave their homeland from all over the world to countries where they expect to find safety and a better life. People’s motives to emigrate may vary from one person to another or from one country to another. Some people are forcibly ousted from their homeland by wars; some do not even get something to eat, while others strive for job opportunities. These areas should be considered by the UN and all countries around the world to minimize wars around the world.