Third world countries - Essay Example

Running Head: HUMAN RIGHTS The Third World Countries: Human rights Violation Naif Alotaibi of Mount Union Introduction Human rights are the principles and norms that articulate peculiar human behavior. Human rights are protected under law through several bills and treaties worldwide. Internal laws for human rights have been developed and updated by United Nations in Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and in European Convention on Human Rights and African Charter of Humans Rights. NgoNGOs are playing very vital role to foster human rights in the entire globe and they work as watchdog against violation of human rights.

Such organizations raise their voice against the observed human rights violation and attempt to help the affected people as much as possible. Prior to Recognition of Human RightsSeveral atrocities on a large scale were committed before the recognition of human rights and there was no justice for the oppressed ones. Like during times of slavery, human rights were almost non-existent. All rights had been owned by the stronger and more powerful people. But certain movements like struggle of Martin Luther King to attain equal rights for the blacks.

Initiation of Idea The idea of human rights was initiated after Second World War as during war several violations of human rights had been committed by Allies and Axis. That war resulted in creating a new era of political and social structure and the outcome was creation of UNO that developed human rights principles for the world. Examples of Human Right ViolationsLibya is a big example of such violations from 1969 till 2011 and the ruler (Qaddafi) was responsible for such violations. Similarly, Syria also went through prolonged civil war that began between pro govt.

and anti govt. forces and resulted in displacing 140,000 people and 2.5 million became homeless. South Sudan also saw such circumstances and Sudanese violated the rights of people of South Sudan before formation of separate country. Conclusion It is responsibility of international community to control and prevent abuse of human rights in such conflict zones and human right codes should be imposed through sanctions and use of force. ReferencesNeistat, Anna, and Ole Solvang. 2011. "By all means necessary!

": individual and command responsibility for crimes against humanity in Syria. New York: Human Rights Watch.Nanda, V. P. (2012). Digital Common Laws. Retrieved October 27, from http://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1103&context=ilr