Human Rights Issues and Violations

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In law, an issue is a question that must be answered to come to the resolution of a matter – a legal matter. 

 

A human rights issue is a problem (action, inaction, a situation, etc) that affects the rights of a human being that needs to be taken care of and solved or addressed. For example, any problem that affects the right to life and the right to liberty and freedom of the individual is a human rights issue.

 

Human rights violations refer to the denial of the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms. In other words, a human right violation is to deny individuals their fundamental moral entitlements. 

 

Also, in a sense, a human rights violation is to treat a human being as if he/she is less than human and undeserving of respect and dignity. 

 

A human rights violation can be committed by people who work for the State and their behaviour is then considered to be the behaviour of the State. These agents of the state could be of many kinds, for example; ministers, MPs, police officers, military officers, prosecutors, judges, other public servants, etc.

 

Human rights abuse is the violation of the basic rights of people by treating them wrongly. 

 

Human rights abuse can also be explained as the deliberate maltreatment of human beings including violations of generally-accepted fundamental rights as stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

 

Human rights abuses are carried out by both State and non-state actors or agents (i.e., government officials and ordinary individuals or groups of people).



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References:

§  UN, 

§  UDHR, 1948

§  SINIKO

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