Human Rights Violations
...the violations, and protect their rights. Human rights are rights as regarded belonging to all people. Today we are all entitled to the same rights. In a sense, we are all equal.
Human rights are rights and liberties that are guaranteed to everyone at birth. On December 10th 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was made for every living human in this world to follow and obey. These rights originated after World War II because they don't want such inhumanity event to ever occur again. So by the world agreeing to this declaration it is almost sure the lives of so many people isn't to be lost again for unnecessa,ry reasons. The main purpose of these rights are to enforce balanced rights of all people. Making sure that all humans have the right o freedom, justice, and peace in the world. It also says that everyone has the right to nationality, religion, and his or her own opinion [Document 1]. Despite the holocaust, abuses of human rights have continued in the post-World War 2 era.
One of the major abuses of Human Rights in the World War II era was the Apartheid in South Africa. After South Africa won its independence from Great Britain, the Afrikaner Nationalist party gained a whites only parliament. The nationalists set up a system of Apartheid, or complete segregation of races. Under this system blacks needed permission to travel, and had to carry a pass when doing so [Document 2]. Other Apartheid laws also created many segregated facilities and denied Blacks the right to vote. The apartheid violated many guidelines of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of them were Article 1; "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights".
Through the years, world attention focused of South Africa. In 1973 the United Nations general Assembly...
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