Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states to promote human rights, equality, justice, peace, freedom and rebellion against tyranny and oppression national and international, but not all people of all nations promote respect for individual’s rights and freedom. In Articles 3 and 4: People have the right to be free without worrying about being enslaved. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Slavery has been abolished in the U.S. for over one hundred years, but in this present time, there are different types of slavery still practiced in some countries, and even here in the U.S. Adults and children are being tricked, caught, kidnapped, forced and sold as slaves.

The continuing slave trade is a direct contradiction to Articles 3 & 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human trafficking, the name that is commonly used for the slave trade industry is a booming business, that’s affecting millions of people of all ages, sex, and races. First, let us define human trafficking. Human trafficking is a criminal activity that trades human being for the purpose of prostitution, servitude, forced labor and/or the extraction of organs or tissues. This is a great violation of human rights when every year thousands of women and children fall victim to these traffickers in their own country and abroad and then find themselves surrounded by an unfamiliar culture and language without identification documents, fearing for their lives and the lives of their families, being treated as possession and property. Why are some of these women and children such easy targets? It’s sad that here in this country, people are being brought, sold and smuggled like modern-day slaves. These people are often bea...

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...Why even the ones we should trust to help protect us against such things, are the ones who even promote such behaviors? “Rath served a year in prison under Malaysia's tough anti-immigrant laws, and then she was supposed to be repatriated. She thought a Malaysian policeman was escorting her home when he drove her to the Thai border—but then he sold her to a trafficker, who peddled her to a Thai brothel.” (Extract from “Half the Sky” by Nicholas Kristoff.) How can we make a difference in this world, to make sure our women and children are safe from extremes treatment? Who can we truly trust to protect us and save us from such cruelty? I guess only time will tell or maybe with enough pressure from the citizens of the nations, the government will surely take heed and make an effort to address and rectify this problem.

Works Cited

Virginia Slave code

Half the Sky