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It is happening everyday all over the world. The rights of human beings are violated in one way or the other. Even after the abolishment of slavery and the advent of equal rights, we still witness hate crimes in this country and the blatant disregard for human rights. That being said, the United States is by far the most diverse nation in the world. With ethnicities from all corners of the world represented in the United States we have come very far in our struggle for fair and equality amongst all but have a long way to go. However, the crimes against humankind are not restricted to the boarders of our great nation. One can find human rights violation of the most severe kind in the Middle East where women are beaten to near death just for attempting an education.
One can find numerous violations in Africa. A continuing example of this is when donated food is stolen by the military from starving children just to be sold by the government. Another grotesque distortion could be what occurs to female babies in China upon birth. The cases are endless, but normally the root cause can be normally attributed to leadership failures. The lack of leadership or leadership failures both in government and more importantly parenting to be specific is not an easy thing to fix. However, the end result is the children grow up in the mirror image of their leadership, their parents.
This paper will address the human rights issues by covering Political Rights, Social Rights, and the Economic Aspects. Yet, to get a good idea one has to understand the Demographics of Human Rights Abuses.
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Demographics of Human Rights Abuses
Although human rights abuses occur all over the world, they are most common in poor countries with instable governments and great ethnic diversity. The most well known areas where human rights abuses occur are Central and South America (i.e.- Guatemala, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil), the Middle East (i.e.- Iraq, Israel,...