Introduction
In the last thirty years, there have been numerous articles who studied the violation of human rights. Moreover, there are thousands of papers on the consequences of those violations such as the authors and the victims of human rights violation, the war, the international intervention and how independent countries were born worldwide in the post-decolonized world. However, little has been done in presenting the causes that leads to the violation of the human rights, and apart from declarations, less than few actions have been taken in preventing human’s right violations to happen in the first place. Or how we could have new countries being born without violating anyone’s right, so that we can prevent the violation of human’s right in the future and settle disputes in non-conflict manners.
The end of the Second World War and the influence of the American hegemony in Europe shaped the borders of Europe. The decolonization process that was taking place around the world brought nationalism on its highest level of attention among societies, thus, we can say that the decolonization of third-world countries had an enormous effect for the European nations as well. With the rise of nationalism, ethnic and nation groups declared independence, formed governments, and created alliances with other governments by forming unions and federations with other sovereign states. However, the fall of the Soviet Union in the beginning of the 1990’s, and the American diplomatic influence in Europe during the mid-1990s, brought a new era in the Eastern Europe. The ethnic based nationalism got the attention of ethnic groups within those federations. Due to a higher level of education, minority groups acknowledged their rights and privileges, ...
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Since the Renaissance of the 15th century, societal views have evolved drastically. One of the largest changes has been the realization of individualism, along with the recognition of inalienable human rights.(UDHR, A.1) This means that all humans are equal, free, and capable of thought; as such, the rights of one individual cannot infringe on another’s at risk of de-humanizing the infringed upon. The fact that humans have a set of natural rights is not contested in society today; the idea of human rights is a societal construction based on normative ethical codes. Human rights are defined from the hegemonic standpoint, using normative ethical values and their application to the interactions of individuals with each other and state bodies. Human rights laws are legislature put in place by the governing body to regulate these interactions.
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States ratify human right treaties to enter into agreements and commit each other to respect, protect and fulfill human rights obligations. However, the adherence to human rights treaties is not ensured by the same principle of reciprocity instead to ensure compliance, collective monitoring and enforcement mechanisms were introduced.8 International organizations and treaty ...
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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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Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the discourse of international human rights and its importance has increasingly become indoctrinated in the international community. In the context of political and economic development, there have been debates on how and which rights should be ordered and protected throughout different cultures and communities. Though there is a general acceptance of international human rights around the globe, there is an approach that divides them into civil and political rights and social and economic rights, which puts emphasis where it need not be.