The issue of the group was: how does the violation of human rights affect the mental and physical health of young people around the world?
Our group had a debate about this question and carried out 3 different researches according to the question and after that we wrote 3 different articles:
1) Physical consequences of human rights violations.
2) Young People
3) Reasons of violations
What are you waiting for? Scroll down for reading the articles we created.
Be aware of what is happening all around the world!
Nowadays many countries all over the world do not follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They committ different offences to the humanity as different countries all around the world stated that the local culture should be more dominant to the others. As a consequence, the criminality between the population will increase such as arson, larceny, fraud and traffic offenses.
This was stated by portlando regon, a governative website and beyond intractability, another reliable source since it is followed by org.
(This image was taken from the UN website @https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/10/1023401)
However, this isn’t the only consequence of the violation of human rights. There are several actions which effect the population such as the sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo towards women. Having a local perspective of the victims, this situation is common in Congo and the UN instead wants to avoid these situations.
In this country the government states that sexual violence is an important human rights’ issue and in 2006 the government established a national strategy to combat these sexual crimes and try to give support to victims.
In 2018 in Congo passed a law that criminalised sexual harassment and imposed penalties for sexual crimes.
The gender violation in Haiti which is bringing to different consequences such as the sexual violation and the inaccessibility to the justice and to healthcare is a similar problem to the one that was reported before. We have as well the forced virginity in Afghanistan.
The Haitian government has recognised the seriousness of gender based violence in the country and it has taken some steps to revise its’ penal code and in 2020 the revised code was signed by the Haitian president Moise.
The government has also worked with international partners and civil society organisations to prevent sexual violence and to provide support to the victims.
In Iran, according to the local government, LGBT men and not Muslim people should be exposed to huge tortures since they do not respect the local identity. (Amnesty international website covered those points.)
The Iranian government officially denies the existence of LGBT individuals in the country; under Iranian law is illegal and punishable by death, there are no legal protections in Iran and their activities are not recognised by the government.
However the legal gender recognition is allowed in this country but the process is limited and difficult.
(This image was taken from the UN website @)
Furthermore, children subbed the consequences of human rights violations. The best example of this is in northern Uganda, in the Subsaharian Africa with the LRA.
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group that has been active in Uganda and other parts of Central Africa for several decades.
The Ugandan government tried to combat the LRA for many years, and has condemned strongly the group’s violent tactics and human rights abuse.
Recently, the country tried to promote some rehabilitation of the formers LRA fighters in the society.
Overall, the Ugandan government thinks LRA are a serious threat to the national security and stability.
The governments exploit the population in order to get more money and win wars. An example of this happened in Serbia and Croatia.
Having a local perspective, in my own country, Italy, 102 women died due to gender-based violence in the family and 70 of them were killed by their husbands. There were registered in 2021 some tortures in Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison and in the same year a violent protest in Rome against the COVID 19 Vaccination (no vax). This is because my country in its’ perspective is sometimes unstable and therefore violence usually happens in my country.
These informations were stated by “beyond intractability”, “amnesty international” and “sites uab edu” websites.
(This image was taken from “My Laws Questions” website)
To sum up, we should be aware of what is happening all around the world since some people do not believe on these physical consequences but this is the reality and the most terrible part of it is that the governments are indifferent and therefore they are behaving badly towards the population because they are selfish and corrupt. However, in order to avoid being ignorant of these situations we must read newspapers such as the Daily Times in the USA or the Guardian in order to get informed and updated on what happens all over the world and intervene actively.
If you want to focus on more deeply about this subtopic, watch this video about Monitoring Human Rights violations:
Sitography
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-effects-of-human-rights-violations-on-the-community
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/italy/report-italy/
http://hrgdsociety.org/universal-declaration-of-human-rights-udhr/
https://www.unhcr.org/hk/en/10882-healing-the-wounds-of-sexual-violence-in-the-congo.html
https://guardian.ng/business-services/how-ugandan-child-soldiers-are-rebuilding-their-lives/
https://www.voanews.com/a/serbia-arrests-7-linked-to-srebrenica-massacre/2685000.html
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-police-arrest-far-right-leaders-after-anti-vaccine-riots/a-59459286
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-italy-mario-draghi-health
https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/21/qa-joseph-kony-and-lords-resistance-army
Human rights.
The universal declaration of human rights is an official document established in 1948 with the purpose that everyone has their rights and freedoms.
Most of the time, Human rights are not properly respected by some people, the examples of violations of human rights can be physically, like domestic violence. The violations of human rights can also be due to the failure by the state to protect.
The most common examples of violations of human rights can be civil and political. However, the most violated rights are economical, social and cultural.
(humanrightscareers.com)
Violations of human rights.
The meanings of the violation of human rights are for instance the right to talk and physical safety. In the human rights their must be the mutual respect and dignity. The protection of human rights means that people have to receive decent human treatments.
(beyondintractability.org)
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Gender discriminations.
In Oman nationality law, there are different types of discrimination, such as gender and the violations of humans rights on woman and children. The violations on childrens in Oman law aren’t important and they are about sex discrimination.
(equalnationalityrights.org)
Violations cause’s from the Chinese worker’s persepective.
Unfortunately nowadays in some countries of the world human rights are not respected. In this case in China, workers are protesting about the unsafe railway of China. In this case, in a long survey the manager made previously it was found out there wasn’t any correlation about the frequency of the violations and the risk that was found from the Chinese railway workers.
(sciencedirect.com)
Sitography:
https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/what-are-human-rights-violations/
https://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/human_rights_violations%20
https://equalnationalityrights.org/news/44-upr-oman-gender-discrimination-nationality
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925753517300012
https://www.unitiperidirittiumani.it/what-are-human-rights/brief-history/the-united-nations.html
Children are among the most at risk for human rights abuses, particularly in countries where there is armed conflict, in post-war environments, and in conditions of underdevelopment, extreme poverty, and social unrest.
Children who struggle to claim their rights due to special limitations are the target audience for youth rights. The government has created a set of regulations devoted to the rights of particular groups in order to address this issue.
The “UN Convention of the Rights of the Child” is devoted exclusively to minors who have not yet turned 18 years old. People who transition from infancy to adulthood, however, may face discrimination in a variety of contexts.
The annual Resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the rights of children, which were presented by the European Union jointly with the Group of Latin American Countries, deserve special mention among the many multilateral initiatives to safeguard childhood and promote the rights of minors.
Numerous youth-led organizations also offer their viewpoints to humanitarian organizations (e.g., the Global Youth Advisory Council of the UNHCR, which organises recommendations on programs like the Global Impact on Refugees).
In this article, we will be going into detail of this problem by overlooking particular countries which have opposite perspectives of this problem and how they act towards the topic of the rights of the child.
Human rights in China
Unfortunately, many people of the chinese population do not fully enjoy their rights as they are expected to, as there are many problematics such as poverty: in which there is an unequal distribution of incomes, one-child policy: a system that controls the number of births to stabilise the county’s demography, child trafficking: in which, as stated from surveys, 10% of children are being sexually abused, no active involvement in languages, since Chinese is the only language acquired by students, discrimination, migrants: with 150.000 street children who are registered in China with very limited access to education and health care, restricted freedom of speech because of the very strict censorship policy, especially on the Internet, limited right to both health and food
https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwikguSJosz9AhXz_7sIHSzLCOYQtwJ6BAgLEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3x1QqElG2BY&usg=AOvVaw0c-TmLu0nbQW-bWv09GJjR
Chinese teen star Wang Yuan wowed the country’s online community with an elegant and rousing speech at a UN youth forum in New York on Tuesday.
Human rights in Italy
Italy’s human rights tend to focus on:
- Fight against discrimination
- Universal moratorium on the death penalty
- Promotion on females’ rights
- Protection and promotion of children’s rights
- Protection of freedom of religion and belief
- Grant the promotion of the rights to members of religious minorities, cultural heritage, human rights’ defenders and disabled people
- Fight against child trafficking
Sitography:
- Human rights and young people: https://tools.youthforum.org/youth-rights-info-tool/human-rights-and-youngpeople/
- Young people defending human rights: https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/young-people-defending-human-rights/
- Children of China: https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/young-people-defending-human-rights/
- https://www.humanium.org/en/china/
- Human rights in Italy: https://www.esteri.it/en/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allosviluppo/temi_globali/diritti-umani/litalia_e_i_diritti_umani/
- Wang Yuang speech: https://youtu.be/3x1QqElG2BY
- The Convenhttps://youtu.be/sxtWrkBV75o