Human Rights in the 21st Century.
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Declaration of Human Rights
The human right that I have chose to talk about is number 3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation. This was originally created during the French revolution to level the political playing field and helped make sure that any one man could not rise to power using force or money, however the French revolution failed. These human rights are still very relevant today. This was hypocritically shown during the reign of terror when the revolutionaries started executing way too many people. This constant blood bath was just one of the reasons the revolution failed.
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In Syria the terrorist organization known as ISIS is violating human rights by killing, kidnapping, as well as starving prisoners and forcing children into combat. This violates this human right because ISIS is exerting authority and breaking laws that they do not have any right to break. They are also breaking several others, one being 4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law. Another human right that is violated is: 10. No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law. It also violates 16. A society in which the observance of the law is not assured, nor the separation of powers defined, has no constitution at all. All of these things are being violated in Syria right now.
Human rights set an important benchmark in terms of where we should be heading to create a more safe and stable society. However, this is hard for a number of reasons. First we have to fix the rights that are currently being violated. In this case of genocide the most realistic solution for completely stopping it would be to go to war. These rights are impressive and sound perfect but they are extremely hard to achieve.
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