...forces’…there will be no excusing the failure of action because we didn’t know–we do know”(Weber), said Micheal Kirby, the chairman of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea . Micheal Kirby raises the question, what do we, as humans and as members of a nation, owe to other humans wronged in their own nation? Since the Holocaust, humans have promised that “never again” will the heinous acts committed in the Holocaust occur, yet humanity has failed to keep its promise since the same heinous acts against humanity continue have occurred...
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...North Korea. One of the most seclusive —yet one of the most controversial— countries in the world. Controlled by dictators from the Kim family since the end of the Korean War in 1953, the country is led today by Kim Jong-un with ruthless expectations. Notorious for its labor camps, draconian punishments, public executions, and a myriad of other human rights violations, the international community has called for increased sanctions and restrictive trade in efforts to curtail these crimes and stifle the regime. However, North Korea has easily bypassed this by deploying a tactic of their own: sending forced laborers abroad to harvest cold currency for the dictatorship. Furthermore, in the past five years, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s...
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...about what is happening in North Korea right now? Children as young as seven are forced to manual labor, proper food rations are not distributed to citizens, and Kim Jong-Un is testing and building nuclear weapons without permission of citizens. As you can see, many human rights are violated in these problems North Korea has, including freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of information, forced leadership, religious freedom, public executions, and even more. One of these violations is free speech, the right and freedom of opinion and information in society and government. The people of North Korea are not treated well as humans because of this invigorating problem of violating this key human right, free speech....
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...The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is a country on the Korean peninsula in Asia. More colloquially known as North Korea, it is infamous for its numerous human rights violations and oppressive government. Harsh conditions, severe famine, a communist dictatorship and many other factors contribute to the reasons why many North Korean citizens would want to defect. Defection is a long, arduous event with many obstacles, which can make or break someone’s life, and is a taboo topic in North Korea. Not only is defection risking your life, but it is risking the lives of your family as well. North Korea feeds constant communist propaganda to their citizens, and controls all aspects of international media. This is common knowledge,...
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...know about North Korea’s political standpoint of how they claim to treat their people well, but has one ever questioned the honesty of North Korea? For several decades, satellites have detected prison/labor camps all over the Mountainous regions of North Korea. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people reside in these camps; Many of them born in the camp and are unaware of the outside world. At a young age many of the children born in the camp, are malnourished, abused and given a taste of what the camp life is like. A popular novel known as Escape from Camp 14 is the true tale of a young man’s life, in a labor camp known...
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...Hello everyone, I would like to talk to you about the humanitarian crisis in North Korea. Kim Jong Il imposes a totalitarian rule over the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or the D.P.R.K. for short. The DPRK is what north Korean’s refer to when mentioning their country. This is ironic because they are far from being democratic and they have absolutely no say in their government elections. The Kim family has ruled for generations and wins one hundred percent of the time because North Korea does not allow any political opposition. The people are isolated and are completely cut off from the outside world. According to a North Korean world article, North Koreans practice collective punishment. This means that if you go against Kim Jong Il in any way, not only will you get in trouble but the rest of your entire family will be punished. There is evidence about the political prisons that say death rates are extremely high. Grandchildren to grandparents have been sent to prison camps. Guards who have defected have reported being specifically told by Kim Jong Il that the prisoners are not people and should be treated as such. They are never meant to be released and their history is erased as soon as they enter. Although North Korea denies any of these camps exist. This is a humanitarian crisis and there is evidence that they are committing crimes against humanity. Kim Jong Il and his government should be held accountable. We CANNOT sit back and allow this to go on. Satellite imagery...
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...for granted the rights that they are given. The ability to live, buy and do whatever a person wants is a right that many people around the world take for granted. Places in the world like North Korea do not have those rights, and in the novel, Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals struggle under a dictatorship where rights are limited. The following three paragraphs will include, how the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell portrays a farm in which there is a need for natural and human rights, the reality of North Korea, where conditions are poor and human rights are minimal, and how George Orwell was trying to warn his audience of the future. In Animal Farm, Orwell creates a farm where the animals have a need...
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...Human rights violations Project in Social Studies Mick Joshua Ilano IV-Mercy Human rights violation in the Philippines. On January 18, 2013, Aquino signed a landmark law, Republic Act No. 10361, designed to protect the rights of the country’s estimated 1.9 million domestic workers. The Philippines also ratified the International Labor Organization’s Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, which would help protect the rights of the 1.5 million Filipino domestic workers abroad. The Aquino administration, however, has not made significant progress on its pledge to expedite the investigation and prosecution extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances, among other serious violations of human rights. The number of extrajudicial killings has dropped significantly since Aquino took office, but politically motivated killings are still frequently reported and the murder of petty criminals by “death squads” in urban areas continues unabated. Only two cases of extrajudicial killings have resulted in convictions in the past three years, and even in those cases, the individuals believed most responsible for the killings have not faced justice. The government took some steps to set up an inter-agency committee in 2013 to help investigate and prosecute high-profile extrajudicial killings, but it was not yet operational at time of writing. Harassment of and violence against leftist political activists and environmentalists continues. Insurgency and Ethnic Conflicts In...
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...An example of such country is North Korea. North Korea is a small country in East Asia, led by a dictator called Kim Jong-un who inherited the position of the supreme leader from his father. The republic is led by a single...
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...News—North Korea’s Nuclear Missile Launch There are so many conflicting battles occurring in the world today that it is hard to keep up with all of them. Whether it deals with local, state or even national, conflict exists everywhere, it’s a part of everyone’s daily life. The resolutions are not always clear and it depends on whether a formal form of mediation is used as to whether or not the public will hear of the resolution that came to pass from the conflict. North Korea has been issuing near-daily threats against the United States and South Korea, and sometimes at United States forces in the Pacific. The North has given several warnings about carrying out pre-emptive nuclear strikes against the United States, which many analysts believe to be doubtful on the North’s end to hit U.S. mainland, but it could however, hit South Korea or Japan and American forces that are there. The expected reason behind these threats towards the United States is explained in The New York Times; because the United States led the successful push for sanctions at the United Nations to punish North Korea for its nuclear test in February, its third. The North also often ratchets up its political speech during joint United States-South Korea military exercises, which it portrays as a threat. One of those exercises is continuing (2013). The sole question remains as to why these conflicts are arising from North Korea, and it is probably the same reason the United States and South Korea aided...
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...analyzed data collected from 66,000 people polled in 65 countries that the U.S. is considered to be more threatening to peace efforts than Pakistan, Iran, and China combined, “Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace,” (New York Post, 2014). While this data sheds a frightening light upon the global opinion of the U.S.’s ability to act as successful peacekeepers, and due to many of the blunders experienced during Bush’s presidency, it is understandable as to why faith in the U.S. has diminished. However, both recent and historical data points towards the contrary, and instead has shown the importance of U.S. intervention in maintaining peace and showing the world that violations of human rights will not be tolerated. Therefore appropriate U.S. intervention within certain foreign policies is a necessity for global peace. Due to the U.S. maintaining one of the world’s largest militia in non-war times it is imperative that the United States’ military be involved in global efforts to foster and maintain peace when necessary. Many countries do not have the capability to defend themselves and the U.S. can aid these countries by using its quite expansive military power. Currently the U.S. supports a military of over 1.4 million trained individuals (U.S. Department of Defense, 2014). Recent struggles between Chinese and Japanese forces have only highlighted how important it is for the U.S. military to maintain its global presence...
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...PAPER ON COUNTRY THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH KOREA In this research I will be describing data’s about Republic of South Korea, and discussing the conditions of early childhood education, the economy effects it has on children and families along with the issues of child and human rights violations, programs to support children with working families and other concepts that are there in South Korea. The Republic of South Koreais a small country on the far eastern edge of Asia. It is located in the southern part of the Korean peninsula. South Korea is surrounded by the Northwest Pacific Ocean around the western coast of Seoul, which is the capital of the country. The country faces japan across the East Sea and china across the yellow sea. To the north across the DMZ is NorthKorea.The country shares a border with North Korea. The Korean flag is called Taegeukgi.In the middle, there is a circle that has a red top and blue bottom. Then the top left is three straight lines, bottom left is two straight lines and two half lines between them, top right, is one straight line and four halves on both sides of the whole line, bottom right, six half lines with a white background. Its design symbolizes the principles of the yin and yang in Asian philosophy. The white background stands for the peace and purity of the Korean people. Ying and Yang is the red and blue circle in the center of the flag divided into two equal parts. Red represents positive and blue represents negative. Ying and yang...
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...most third world countries. Approximately 40% of the worlds population does not have freedom of speech. In the countries Vietnam, North Korea, and Pakistan many of its people are victimized through stringent laws such as killing of future generations, beheading of innocent people, and jailing for many years. The South Asian country of Vietnam is well known for its restriction on freedom of speech. Vietnam has been through many wars and revolutions that have affected its laws. In Vietnam’s penal code it states that the people of Vietnam have Freedom of speech,...
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...Human Rights Watch is one of the most reputable None Government Organizations which dedicated to protect human rights. It is independent and does not accept donations from any governments. The organization was founded in 1981, its mission is to defend the rights of people worldwide. It opposes the violations of what it considers basic human rights, including capital punishment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Human Rights Watch advocates freedoms in connection with fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press. It conducts the investigations, interviews the victims, witnesses, and sometime even the perpetrators in order to document the facts, gather the evidences to exposes the perpetrators that...
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...If we get involved in a conflict, even if it’s the right thing to do, we may receive backlash from many other countries. If America sits back and does nothing, the world looks at us and asks, “Why are you not doing anything about this?” This is something we see all the time with the situation in North Korea. The amount of human rights violations that occur there is absolutely insane, but we’re forced to sit back and do nothing because of countries like China and Russia. The sovereignty of the nation of North Korea does not allow us to go in and just do what we want despite the horrible living conditions there. Fichtelberg states, “Crimes under international criminal law are largely limited to genocide, aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.” (Fichtelberg 2008, p.6). Is Kim Jong Un guilty of committing one of these act? If he is the UN could go in and possibly save the citizens of that country, but no one can prove it due to...
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