The Importance Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights In France

Located in Western Europe are some of the countries where Article Five and Article Thirteen in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have been violated (see Appendix A): France, Spain and United Kingdom. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of thirty Articles or rights which are believed to belong to every member of society. Moreover, it has been developed in subsequent international treaties and national constitutions ("Universal Declaration of Human Rights").

One of the countries situated off the western coast of continental Europe is France. Considering by land, France is the largest country in Western Europe with the total population coming close to sixty-seven million (Central Intelligence Agency). France’s leaders continue to be determined to remain as a capitalist country by laws and regulations, tax policies and social spending that reduce income inequality to maintain equality of all members of society. With a minimum of seventy-five million tourists a year, it is the most visited country in the world, receiving the third world’s largest income from tourism. The nation has also long been part of one of the world’s most developed and richest economies. France and its neighboring countries, such as Spain and United Kingdom, are either destination countries or countries where people are used as resources and exported for the use of human trafficking which violates Article Thirteen ("Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery - France").

Spain, formally regarded as the Kingdom of Spain, is a sovereign state under the control of Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and King, Juan Carlos. The nation borders southwestern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea and southwest of France and it’s population is currently approaching fo...

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...ice abuse to the public and other torture or ill-treatment as society and police officials will be more aware of what they do to the public around them and can cause them to think twice before committing a crime. Another resolution to torture and ill-treatment in these three regions include violence from both participants should be illegal. Since police abuse is a big issue in the three countries, a way to settle things between the victim and the officer fairly is to make physical abuse illegal from both parties. In order to ensure that everyone obeys this law and no one falsifies a story about who raised their hand on the other first, camera systems should be installed to take record of the truth. In conclusion, human rights and laws should be enforced and implied all over the world to create peace and justice between nations and on a smaller scale, individuals.