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"Human Rights Violations" What comes to mind when you hear that term?
Posted by Jaybetee • 7/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bloggers unite, bloggersunite, human rights
Just wondering what you think of when you hear the term "human rights violations."
We went to UTSA and asked some people there what they thought. Check out their responses if you want on the BC blog.
More importantly though give some thought to what human rights and human rights violations mean to you. Leave a comment and please join the Bloggers Unite for Human Rights event on 7/17/09.
The event page is at www.bloggersunite.org/event/bloggers-unite-for-human-rights-2009 if you want to join. More info and the responses from UTSA can be found at blog.blogcatalog.com/announcements/join-bloggersunite-for-human-rights/comm....
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People in poorer countries being exploited for profit by big western companies. -
people being poisened by chemicals that they do not know are in there environment-
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and food additives
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Riot police assaulting members of the press in St. Paul, Minnnesota
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The massacre of indigenous people in the name of civilization and progress. -
the patenting of living things that Nature produces free of charge!
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Ethnic cleansing.
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Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, its cover up and shuffling of pedophiles around the world so they don't get caught.
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Torturing innocents because of their religious beliefs
www.democracynow.org/2006/9/19/canadian_inquiry_finds_torture_survivor_mahe...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160517/They-used-scalpel--I-crying-agony-... -
everything is a human rights violation.-
why don't people take these subjects seriously?
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I am taking it seriously. Everything is. When a middle class family falls on hard times but are denied food stamps because their income is too high, are they not denied food? When vets come back and are forced to live on streets or receive substandard housing and medical care.. is that not a violation? People who get their gas turned off due to insane unregulated prices and have to spend winter in freezing temperatures... are they not being denied certain rights? People who live near chemical plants but are not able to move? Parents whose children are taken away but cannot afford decent representation? I mean just because it's not a tug at your heart newsworthy event does not make it any less devestating or any less of a violation. What about kids being denied basic neccessities due to budgeting? As I said, everything is a violation... it just seems no one cares about the 'little issues'
"Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education." -
I have to agree with what endlessly is saying - There definately are the violations that go on in our own towns that go unheard of. The question is where does the help start? most people focus on the bigger picture - lending a hand to those in need overseas who don't get help from their own government, when instead perhaps there are people right under their own noses that could do with the same kind of help. -
"Everything" is a broad term, so i was confused there, but yes most problem are a result of a want of governance over those entities which are prone to violate our Human Rights. Inequal protection under the the law (as in the child custody situation, and the chemical poisoning example) is a DIRECT violation of Human Right. The others are more indirect. High food prices are a result of price fixing through excessive subsidizing of agrabusiness firms. High energy prices result from a failure to enforce a sound corporate charter, or in allowing a lax charter to begin with.
In any case, I see your point now
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Persecuting people because of their religious, political, aesthetic preferences.
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Chinas invasion of Tibet is what comes to mind for me
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the Bush Doctrine
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"Shock and Awe" the tactic of Christian Terrorists
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Obviously there are a lot of things that need fixing. The thing that bothers me the most is human trafiking (sp?) especially that of children for slavery or sexual reasons. Makes my stomach turn every time I think of it.
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It is a disgrace. There are more slaves now than at any time in history
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To think that there is a demand for that sort of thing really is sickening, I agree.
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That is a huge problem all over the world, and the US is not immune. We have a giant problem with it within our own borders.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/etc/stats.html
www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/27/child.prostitutes.freed/index.html#cnnSTCText -
there are undoubtedly more wage-slaves than at any time in history either
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's first address to congress, on the subject of wage-slavery:
"In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism.
It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -
Female Circumcision and other tactics of paternalistic moral order
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