The Pros And Cons Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status (United N). In 1948, The Universal Declaration of Human Right was passed (United). A change in our world was to be constructed, however, not every country committed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been appropriately acknowledged as “the rape capital of the world.” (Carly). Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been one of the many countries who have not abided to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As said in the previous sentence, they have been recognized for having multiple rape cases. Many of these

” Before I go on about the reasons I believe Rape as a weapon is wrong, let talk about Human rights. However, with Human rights I am able can still show the reasoning on why rape is wrong. “In other words, many people have been unsatisfied with the notion that what is right or good is simply what a particular society or ruling elite feels is right or good at any given time.”(Human) By Human rights: Chimeras in sheep's clothing?, Andrew begins to draw the history of Human rights. He explains how back then many people were unsatisfied with how they were treated, but the government did nothing because of how the Human rights was set up. If we were to bring this back to the present, we can consider about how even now people are still not satisfied with how the government has the rights set up and how many of the lower class is being treated as. Let's now bring it back to the women in Congo, Do they have human rights? Why is it that many of the women don’t know about this? “Different people hold different concepts of human rights.”(Dembour), what Mrs. Marie say is true. The Universal Declaration of Human rights may be there to help many countries, However, many people read it and define it differently. The different definitions is

In Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, it makes a clear statement in which it says no one should be tortured or put into a cruel situation. However, many of the women in Congo have stories in which they’ve been tortured. “Six Soldiers took me and raped me, and then they took my husband….. Now I’ve had five surgeries, I haven’t recovered yet”(Warfare). Many women like YafanShize, have been trying to recuperate from what has happened to them, However, brutal assaults mutilate women’s internal cavities, organs, and genitals (Warfare). As I watch the video of Yafanshize and other women expressing the unacceptable event that they have gone through and still having to recover from it. How is rape seen as a weapon? Women are being tormented when the man of the house doesn’t even realize what is happening at home. How does that help us fight a war? When the men have no resource to communicate with family members, so at war, they don’t hesitate to kill others. The simple thought of rape being a weapon absurd. The isn’t any statistics that show raping a woman will help you advance in the war and win. “Sometimes Attackers use branches or Gun Barrels, Sometime they shoot into the genital” (Warfare) This goes beyond the rape, weapons being used is just depressing. Is rape not enough to win the war? How do the