Everyone has claims to the same rights despite: sex, race, class and religion. Human rights should never be violated and unfortunately this is hardly ever the case. Rights are violated all over the world, whether it be selling another human into slavery or not allowing some to practice freedom of speech. One country that has been noticed because its failure to protect basic human rights is Laos. Laos is located in Southeast Asia and is drowning in human rights violations. Basic human rights have been withheld from the people of Laos by the government design to keep them safe. The Government and law enforcement are severe abusers of power and a heavy involvement with political figures and protestors. Anyone who stands in the way of the Laotian government are swiftly removed and what is done to them is unclear. As well as using their power to make imperfections disappear the Laotian government also refuses to enforce laws on human trafficking. Young girls are bought and sold in Laos every day and the government kindly looks the other way. Another violation occurred and still does to the Hmong people of Laos. Due to their assistants to the American Government during the war the Hmong people have suffered mass genocide and forceful relocation. Finally one of the biggest violations and problems in Laos is the abuse in drug centers, prisons and asylums. We should care about Laos because the government has fallen apart, the mass genocide of the Hmong and the severe cruelty displayed in Laotian prisons and asylums.
In Laos the police and government abuse their power in more ways than one. One of the more common way for the government to flex their muscles is by making protestors and political figures disappear. According to the Universa...
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On December 10th in 1948, the general assembly adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration, although not legally binding, created “a common standard of achievement of all people and all nations…to promote respect for those rights and freedoms” (Goodhart, 379). However, many cultures assert that the human rights policies outlined in the declaration undermine cultural beliefs and practices. This assertion makes the search for universal human rights very difficult to achieve. I would like to focus on articles 3, 14 and 25 to address how these articles could be modified to incorporate cultural differences, without completely undermining the search for human rights practices.
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While there is no clear definition for ‘human rights’, it is possible to describe them as basic moral and legal rights that all people have, simply in virtue of their humanity. Although human rights are traditionally associated with being civil and political rights, they also include socioeconomic rights. Focusing on a political conception of human rights, it is important to note that not every question of social justice is a human rights issue. Despite UN declarations, many do not consider poverty a violation of human rights. Severe poverty, traditionally defined in terms of low income, concerns insecurity caused by a lack of resources. By the UN dividing its human rights law into two separate treaties, countries are able to endorse civil