human rights violations

Human Rights Violations

Terrorism

Natural Disasters

War

Organized Crime

Racism

Despotism

Immigration / Land Rights

Child Soldiers

Terrorism

• Innocent victims suffer an attack on their right to live in peace.

• The suspected perpetrators of attacks also have rights

• Countries use terrorism to commit violations

• USA, China, Egypt, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

Natural Disasters

• Human rights of disaster victims are not taken into account.

• Unequal access to assistance, discrimination in aid provision

• Result from insufficient resources and capacities to prepare and respond to the disasters.

War

• Human Rights Violations are the norm.

• Both sides commit violations, as a rule.

Organized Crime

• In part responsible for surge in crime rates and, in some countries, have accumulated vast influence over government institutions.

• Gov. represents the interests of criminal enterprises.

• Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Peru.

Racism

• Lynching• Discrimination • Violence• Intimidation

Despotism

• Monarchy- single person governs by established laws

• A despot governs by his own will

• Fiji, Burma, Guinea, Niger, Libya

Immigration / Land Rights

• Exploitation.• Can attract criminal

elements (drug / human trafficking)

• Racism

Child Soldiers

• Three forms: • Direct part in

hostilities (child soldiers)

• Support roles -porters, spies

• Political advantage as propaganda