Human Rights Post

The United Nations, containing all the human rights was created in the aftermath of the Second World War and the horrors of the Holocaust. Despite this, the universality of the document has been criticised by some.  These people argue that by claiming human rights are universal, we ignore and undermine the cultural differences that exist between societies in different parts of the world. For example, a number of them are broken in a lot of everyday lives for millions, or even billions of people. As an example, in Pakistan, the majority of people face violations to their rights in their most everyday lives, especially during wars. Rights such as the right to live and that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile, which with no doubt was violated as someone attempted to shoot Saba in the head for absolutely no reason. For human rights which are just wrong and no matter who you are or where you live shall not be broken, examples would be the right to life, everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law and the right to leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. There are obviously many more and these are not even close to the number of rights which should not be broken under any circumstance.

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