So in 1948 the General Assembly of United Nations came up with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As I was reading through several of the 30 articles from this following website, http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html, I encountered good and bad feelings. The good feelings were that people of the UN thought to put these human rights in documentation back in 1948. However, the negative feelings emerged as I was reading them and I encountered many events that disobeyed some of the articles.
Article 2 states "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." So I presume this is the elimination of discrimination and judgement. But isn't it natural for a human to judge upon meeting people, or even observing people? This article has clearly been broken many times throughout conflicts of religion, choice of sex-oriented lifestyle, color of skin, and list goes on.
Article 4 "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Today there are at least 12 million people in slavery. Modern slavery is similar as slavery referred in the Transatlantic Slave Trade back in the early 1800s. Modern slavery is where people are forced to work in exchange for almost no pay. Some other examples of today's slavery, according to Anti-Slavery's website (www.antislavery.org) include "Women from eastern Europe are bonded into prostitution, children are trafficked between West African countries and men are forced to work as slaves on Brazilian agricultural estates."
Jumping all the way down to Article 26 where it states that everyone has the right to education and that education shall be free in at least elementary stages, I find that many developing countries deny freedom to education. In fact the following sentence, "Elementary education shall be compulsory" has not been met as governments are not enforcing education in a proper matter. Although the Goal #2 from the Millenium Developmental Goal is "Achieve universal primary education" ensuring that by 2015 all children around the world will be able to complete full primary education, 56 out of 86 developing countries have yet to reach the goal. Initiatives are being taken care of, but just not enough where governments from these countries are pushing and understanding the need for education.
So reading these articles did provoke some frusterating feelings in me, which I just had to vent out above.
Alright
Good night
Ciao
Oyasumi-nasai~~
Everyone sleep well.
Naomi
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