Human rights have been a factor that dominates many trades throughout the world; affecting world growth, production, trade, and more. The world has been crawling to the top, world leaders racing to govern countries with better economics, politics, and power. In the process human rights become ignored, forgotten, and abused. Some conditions have improved, while others have worsened. The human right conditions in Thailand, although ranked a partially free country, has been unchanged for the past few years, and experiences many human rights violations from prisoner torture to police brutality.
Thailand is the only country to avoid direct colonial rule. In 1932 the country transformed to a constitutional monarchy the lower government is typically viewed as fair. Which resulted in military coups, constitutional overhauls, and popular uprisings (2013). Security forces report to civilian authorities. The police are killing, torturing, and otherwise abusing criminal suspects and prisoners in overcrowded, and unsanitary facilities. Violence and discrimination against women; sex tourism; sexual exploitation of children; trafficking in persons; discrimination against persons with disabilities, minorities, hill tribe members, and foreign migrant workers; child labor; and some limitations on worker rights; continued to be a serious problem (Reports). The former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra gained his fortune from telecommunications. He also started the TRT party (Thai Rak Thai) meaning Thais love Thais. His regime wreaked havoc throughout the country during his term from '01-'06. Under his reign corruption gained power, the three southern most provinces of Thailand fell to corrupt officials, abuse, and torture. In 2011, Yingluck, Thasin...
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... willing bring those who attempt to do so to trial, and face charges. Until then Thailand suffers corruption, abuse of human rights, and daily riots.
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People, including children, are still being forced to work to death, innocent civilians are still suffering the consequences of war, and families are struggling to stay firm together. Despite the efforts of the people, IGOs, and NGOs, in the year 2100, human rights abuse will not end. All around the world people and countries are continuing the efforts to end Human Rights Violations. Human rights violations are a big problem in the world today.
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The issue of human rights has arisen only in the post-cold war whereby it was addressed by an international institution that is the United Nation. In the United Nation’s preamble stated that human rights are given to all humans and that there is equality for everyone. There will not be any sovereign states to diminish its people from taking these rights. The globalization of capitalism after the Cold War makes the issue of human rights seems admirable as there were sufferings in other parts of the world. This is because it is perceived that the western states are the champion of democracy which therefore provides a perfect body to carry out human rights activities. Such human sufferings occur in a sovereign state humanitarian intervention led by the international institution will be carried out to end the menace.
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