Human Rights Violations
Terrorism
Natural Disasters
War
Organized Crime
Racism
Despotism
Immigration / Land Rights
Child Soldiers
Terrorism
• Innocent victims suffer an attack on their right to live in peace.
• The suspected perpetrators of attacks also have rights
• Countries use terrorism to commit violations
• USA, China, Egypt, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.
Natural Disasters
• Human rights of disaster victims are not taken into account.
• Unequal access to assistance, discrimination in aid provision
• Result from insufficient resources and capacities to prepare and respond to the disasters.
War
• Human Rights Violations are the norm.
• Both sides commit violations, as a rule.
Organized Crime
• In part responsible for surge in crime rates and, in some countries, have accumulated vast influence over government institutions.
• Gov. represents the interests of criminal enterprises.
• Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Peru.
Racism
• Lynching• Discrimination • Violence• Intimidation
Despotism
• Monarchy- single person governs by established laws
• A despot governs by his own will
• Fiji, Burma, Guinea, Niger, Libya
Immigration / Land Rights
• Exploitation.• Can attract criminal
elements (drug / human trafficking)
• Racism
Child Soldiers
• Three forms: • Direct part in
hostilities (child soldiers)
• Support roles -porters, spies
• Political advantage as propaganda
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